Tag: Video game
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Tropes vs Women in Video Games Part one
Great to see this finally arrive – Anita Sarkeesian’s series about the portrayal of women in video games. Great use of Kickstarter, and also interesting how it revealed some very odd reactions amongst the male game-playing public, as some shibboleth was being challenged. I would love to see more gender (and orientation, OMG imagine a…
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1P Insert Coin to begin! Amazing coin animation
Love the 3D and the how-to at the end…painstaking yet ingenious…and harks back to the days when it was 10p silver coins to play Battlezone and Donkey Kong and the like! Loads of arcade history references here, from Pacman to Doom-type games. (via Boing Boing)
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The Cake is a Lie: Portal 2 – you monster!
I’ve really enjoyed Portal which Valve gave away free for 2 weeks in May (not really a games person, but GladDOS and the puzzle solving fits me exactly – I like puzzle games, and the humour), and now here’s the trailer for Portal 2. I’m so excited! And here are some gameplay talk-thrus via Boing…
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This blog and these mashups would be illegal in the Digital Economy Bill…
Great video – and as it says, many of the mashups played on Radio Clash or ones you download from here and elsewhere, non-‘podsafe’ podcasts you enjoy could and probably will be classed as illegal downloads – putting your connection at risk if the Digital Economy Bill is passed – doesn’t matter how transformative, how…