Prison Architect and the subversion of the god game
The innovative Prison Architect tasks you with building and controlling a prison - and the definition of success requires choosing to harm…
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Nintendo ignores upset gamers and decides against in-game same-sex marriages
Nintendo's "life simulator" game Tomodachi Life allows players to recreate their lives digitally - unless they want to marry their…
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Why do gamers get squeamish when they might play as Nazis?
Plane shooter Lufthausers has players fighting on the side of a team that looks suspiciously like the Third Reich - a design…
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I’d rather stick my head in a whale’s blowhole than play Facebook’s Oculus Rift
Facebook don't want to make great games. They want more users, more metadata and more adverts. Whatever the Oculus Rift…
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Should I be worried that my son is hooked on a game without any credible female characters?
It’s tough to be “game positive” when your son is addicted to Skylanders, a game in which a mostly male…
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A rape in Day Z: what drives gamers to go Lord of the Flies on each other?
In a game where players can act out any kind of sadistic fantasy on each other - from taking hostage…
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The Aliens horde: the inconsistent movie franchise with the consistently decent spin-off games
While there hasn't been a good Alien movie for almost 30 years, the games of the franchise have been steadily…
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All these years later, there’s still nothing better than Doom
Development is an evolutionary process, and newer games end up objectively better than the older ones they replace – yet…
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