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  • [Games Theory] Is the games industry really immune to a recession?

    Thursday November 20, 2008 @ 11:57 PM (UTC)

    The Guardian, Thursday 20 November 2008

    Aleks Krotoski

    Gamers are so cocky. As the rest of the world crumbles around them, they sit on their comfy sofas, controllers in hand, looking smug. After all, it appears that the only market continuing to rise is theirs. The final quarter of the year has traditionally been the make-or-break time for consumer electronics; the Thanksgiving holiday in the US signals an international scrum in games stores. Most games companies wait until now to fire their big guns, and they are rewarded.

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  • [Games Theory] Little Big Planet signals the start of 'Game 3.0'

    Thursday November 06, 2008 @ 11:55 PM (UTC)

    Aleks Krotoski

    The Guardian, Thursday 6 November 2008

    I am quite open about my relationship with the PlayStation 3. To date, the Sony console has done nothing for me. Until this week, the machine has sat under a substantial layer of dust and cat fur, discarded in favour of the superior games to both buy and download on the Nintendo Wii and the Xbox 360. I was even able to play SingStar, my traditional favourite party piece, on the PlayStation 2. But that all changed this week when the game I’ve been looking forward to more than anything in recent memory finally arrived.

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  • [Games Theory] Blurring the line between our online and real lives

    Thursday September 25, 2008 @ 11:53 PM (UTC)

    Aleks Krotoski

    The Guardian, Thursday 25 September 2008

    If I were in charge of the world, I’d change a few things. First, I would have three lives, just like in a computer game. That would allow me to carelessly – and frequently – throw myself from clifftops, walk into the path of oncoming danger and make hairpin turns around slippery corners while driving at 150mph. My fun bonus would be instantly upgraded, and I would have mega-extreme XP in no time. Second, I would need to be preposterously buff and obscenely proportioned to cope with any of the bad things the world threw in my way. But that goes without saying, really.

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  • [Games Theory] Peering beneath the digital bedsheets

    Thursday September 04, 2008 @ 11:50 PM (UTC)

    Aleks Krotoski

    The Guardian, Thursday 4 September 2008

    I’ve spent the past fortnight thinking hard about sex. Not the frivolous, wanton fantasies that occasionally flit into your head when sitting on a train or staring dully out the window, but the messy, complex and occasionally harrowing world of internet sex. It’s become somewhat of an obsession, but I assure you that it’s all above board.

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