New Gravity Rush DLC headed for LittleBigPlanet
Posted: November 19, 2012 Filed under: DLC, News, Video games | Tags: battle royale, dlc, gravity rush, karting, kat, littlebigplanet, playstation all stars, playstation all-stars battle royale, scea, sony, videogames 2 CommentsThere you go.
Dragonborn DLC for Skyrim: Details!
Posted: November 15, 2012 Filed under: DLC, Video games | Tags: bethesda, bloodmoon, dlc, Dragonborn, hearthfire, Morrowwind, skyrim, Skyrim Dragonborn, solstheim Leave a commentBethesda dropped some news about the new DLC for everyone’s favourite levelling up sim Skyrim. Dubbed Dragonborn, players will get to go to Solstheim (remember the expansion pack Bloodmoon for Morrowwind? Bingo) and fight the first dragonborn and a bunch of other monsters. There will be werewolves too, and presumably not just yourself looking into a mirror.
If this doesn’t inspire terror, I don’t know what will.
Gamer Entitlement and the Myth of Ownership
Posted: April 16, 2012 Filed under: Essays, News, Opinion, Video games | Tags: art, artists, bad guys, bob dylan, colin moriarty, dlc, ea, electronic arts, firefly, good guys, humble bundle, IGN, kickstarter, mass effect 3, origin, ownership, producers, publishers, steam, video game industry Leave a comment
Art is a tricky damn thing. It’s almost impossible to define, to begin with, and it’s pretty damn hard to decide who the owner ever is. I mean, sure, there’s often the original piece of art, like with a painting or a fresco or a sculpture or whatever. Things get much more complicated when you consider other mediums like music, where that piece of art, be it Beethoven or the Beatles, can be recreated and redone (or even duplicated) by a third party. Read the rest of this entry »
Touch My Katamari
Posted: April 2, 2012 Filed under: Review, Video games | Tags: buddy system, dlc, eternal mode, fan damacy, Goro, katamari, katamari damacy, katamari vita, King of All Cosmos, namco bandai, near, ocd, ps vita, puns, rolling, sony, spinning, The Prince, touch, touch my katamari Leave a comment
Touch My Katamari is the latest Katamari game and is out on the PS Vita (and has been for awhile). It retains the classic gameplay elements that makes Katamari fun and mixes it up with a new feature, allowing the player to control the width or height of the Katamari, enabling them to squeeze into or under tight places or roll things up in different, possibly easier ways. Read the rest of this entry »
Mass Effect 3 Ending Patch
Posted: March 21, 2012 Filed under: DLC, Opinion, Video games | Tags: art for art's sake, art majors, art object, art ownership, artistic integrity, bioware, casey judson, commander shepard, cultural ownership, cultural product, cultural production, dlc, ea, electronic arts, ending, ending patch, gameplay, highfalutin, mass effect, mass effect 3, mass effect 3 ending, mass effect ending, muzkya, new ending, normandy, ray muzyka, seth green, shepard, ssv normandy, video game fans, videogamers, videogames 4 Comments
This is starting to become old news, but Bioware has been put on the defensive lately by people having played Mass Effect 3 and been dissatisfied with the ending. Having not beaten the game myself (blasphemy!), I don’t know how much I can argue the point, but I do think it’s gotten pretty ridiculous so far. Read the rest of this entry »
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