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Games Have a Place to Critique Politics: Interview with Irrational’s Bill Gardner Part 2

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BioShock Infinite has been played and reviewed industry-wide (ours is coming soon, I promise), and it’s been met with high scores across the board. In the second part of our interview with Bill Gardner from Irrational, we delve into what it took to get Infinite to its level of quality, whether or not games are challenging their audiences enough and much more! Read More »

Video Game Face Off: BioShock vs. Killzone

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After crashing into the ocean, Jack, the playable protagonist in BioShock, descends in a bathysphere to the underwater ‘utopia’ of Rapture. In that opening scene, not a single bullet flies. Instead of highlighting the fact that this is another shoot-now, ask-questions-never affair, BioShock carefully introduces its nuanced world and intricate philosophy through a simple slideshow presented by Andrew Ryan. Read More »

Games Have a Place to Critique Politics: Interview with Irrational’s Bill Gardner

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There is little doubt in any gamers mind as to how god damn good BioShock Infinite is going to be. But there’s more to it than that – the original BioShock was not only a meta masterpiece, it was an incredibly effective critique of capitalist philosophy and really forced us to look at how morals and society functions. I was lucky enough to sit down with the Design Director of BioShock Infinite to probe him on the game’s politics and more! Read More »

This Generation’s Villains That Are Too Hard to Hate

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Sometimes, it’s just good to be bad. I’m one who constantly finds himself on the darker side of the line, often preferring beautifully written villains to the moral knights that strut through the battlefield, emerging from the dust and debris with the princess under one arm. These are just some of the generation’s villains just too hard to hate. The ones you can’t help but love. Read More »

Borderlands 2: Sir Hammerlock’s Big Game Hunt DLC Review

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I made no secret about my love for Borderlands’ first bit of DLC – Captain Scarlet and her Pirate’s Booty. It was fresh, funky and it proved to be a great little departure from the main story. Cue the collective sighs, because that winning streak is about to taken down a few pegs by Sir Hammerlock’s Big Game Hunt; an add-on that, I’m sad to say, is a bit of a letdown. Read More »

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