The internet hath no fury like a gamer scorned, that’s the lesson Fox News and a self-help author learned after fabricating a Mass Effect sex scandal. But why didn’t BioWare lead the charge on behalf of their artistic creation?
A review of Portal by Tim Rogers. From Gamasutra: Why No More Heroes Matters; a review of NMH by Matt Keil; an interview with Suda 51 and another review, by Edge Magazine. Also from Edge: an interview with Yoshiaki Koizumi, Nintendo’s Unsung Star.
In most forms of entertainment there is a divide between what is popular with the masses and what is popular with the critics. Video games have so far been an exception, but the rise of casual gaming in 2007casual games need to become more innovative suggests that this is changing. Whereas hardcore gamers must now come to terms with the emerging casual majority, , lest they turn into a passing fad. Games like Guitar Hero and Rock Band have become huge hits with casual and hardcore audiences by merging accessible play mechanics with pop music. This game/music hybrid makes for good business, but is it good for games? The case for and against cross-media convergence.
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