What happens when you run the 2010 party manifestos through a video game?
Assassinations, bombings and coups, among other things, as the promises made in the 2010 election get tested in the game…
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How to make chess less boring? Learn from Street Fighter
A games designer has used his experience in remixing the best fighting game series of all time to make chess…
ByXCOM: Enemy Unknown & Xenonauts: is a ’dumbed-down’ game any less fun?
Both XCOM: Enemy Unknown and Xenonauts are successors to the original X-COM series, but they offer players very different things…
ByAAA games are supposed to be boring and unoriginal
To criticise the AAA game for a lack of originality is to misunderstand the fundamental nature of a video game…
ByMemo to Nick Clegg: It isn’t video games that are corroding people’s minds – it’s you
Nick Clegg is the latest in a line of politicians and journalists to scapegoat video games for violent behaviour in…
ByGrand Theft Auto V: a giant, targeted missile of satire
This game has such market power that it can defy all media attacks and laugh at itself, knowing that millions…
ByRuth Ozeki’s Booker-shortlisted novel highlights a real dilemma for the games industry
In Ozeki's novel, A Tale for the Time Being, a games interface developer is confronted by the possibility that the…
ByPolitics from cyberspace: Welcome to the world of Eve
The virtual worlds of video games hold lessons for the real one. We could learn a lot about how to…
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