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COLUMN: Quiz Me Qwik: 'A Russian Literature Primer With Akella'

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2008-05-31 16:00:14 by alistairw in GameSetWatch
...literature could fit on the back of a business card. It could, in fact, fit on the back of a business card even if you were using really, really big writing and a big thick permanent marker to write it, and then had to cross out a bit and rewrite it because you'd misspelled a few of the words. I could name maybe three or four authors, but...
 
Tags: game, game development, game business, game design, book author, book, game-designers, god game, book peculiarities
 
 
 
 
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Lyndon LaRouche hates my hobby, but at least my cat still loves me, Part 1

2008-04-14 00:06:59 by davidlaprad in Adrenaline Vault
 
...literature popular in ancient Greece. If you take the time to read Platos Republic , youll find that Platos utopian society wouldnt allow almost any literature, including drama and poetry, because the literature of ancient Greece, such as the epic poetry of Homer and the tragedies of Aeschylus, were too violent and portrayed the gods in a...
 
Tags: lyndon larouche, violent, violent video games, video games, larouche, support lyndon larouche, article claims, article, claims
 
 
 
 
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Your Turn: Rosebud

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2008-07-09 00:20:35 by Jason Hill in Screen Play
...literature debunked this one by pointing out that it took high levels of skill to read and interpret literature, and that literature was definitely art. An excellent point that I hadn't thought of Then there was an argument about games only being for "fun", and that art can be differentiated from entertainment because it is not always fun. I...
 
Tags: interactive entertainment, entertainment, interactive, interactive art worldwide, art, art argument, games, artistic games, video games
 
 
 
 
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Opinion: Video Games Are The Silver Bullet

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2008-08-08 16:00:14 by Simon Carless in GameSetWatch
...literature in a class of high school boys and watch it be diminished to to a laughable, pretentious relic. Few can appreciate a classic in that environment The problem isn't with the novel or even with the intelligence of the boys. The contract of learning is the problem. In high school, they'll discover way more about chlamydia than they...
 
Tags: video games, games, narrative-heavy video games, educational video games, video game, mainstream video game, triple-a games generic, guerilla games, video game players
 
 
 
 
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WoW and the lowest common denominator

2007-12-30 11:22:00 by Tobold in Tobold's MMORPG Blog
 
...literature or art, and that find their way into a typical school curriculum. And there are "popular" books and movies like Harry Potter and Spiderman, which the critics often call trash, but which make millions of dollars of profit. The reason why World of Warcraft has over 9 million subscribers and makes half a billion dollars of profit per...
 
Tags: top pvp guild, pvp, hardcore pvp niche, strong pvp focus, game, game options, ball game badly, common denominator, pvp system popular
 
 
 
 
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COLUMN: 'The Aberrant Gamer - My Week With Pleo'

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2008-02-28 16:00:06 by Leigh Alexander in GameSetWatch
...literature encourages you to just explore. Its kind of like a game, then, hinged on experimental interaction with an evolved AI. And I decided to find out, like I do with games, just how much technology could make me feel The Journey Begins Pleo arrived at my house nestled in a foam block as if asleep, eyes closed and curled fetally on...
 
Tags: pleo, simply, pleo simply, treat pleo, set pleo, pleo wander, feed pleo, pet pleo gently, stealthily pick pleo
 
 
 
 
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Game Novels Are a Revelation

2008-04-12 11:07:00 by Clinton in Play With My Box
 
...literature So my attitude is all the more surprising because I recently finished reading the first novel based on Mass EFfect , simply titled Revelation . Let me correct myself: I finished reading the book and I damn well enjoyed myself while doing it. While it did not shatter any of my long held prejudices against game novels, I still found...
 
Tags: game, game novels, game intellectual property, mass effect game, mass effect, mass effect universe, video game, mass effect relay, book
 
 
 
 
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Naughty Dog: Games Can Be as Impactful as Charles Dickens Novels, Sold at Starbucks

2008-06-06 13:00:36 by Tracey John in MTV Multiplayer
 
...literature Games are really starting to mature as a literary medium, he continued. He talked about Charles Dickens and explained how the authors popular novels based on his poverty-stricken childhood were largely credited with closing down debtors prisons in Victorian England. I think the kind of effect that literature can have on society is...
 
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classic stories vs mere entertainment

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2008-06-09 14:40:00 by Aaron Miller in Anyway Games
...literature (including oral literature), and art. Yet how many comedies are considered classics? The comedies that last beyond generations offer more than mere resolution. Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing and A Midsummer Night's Dream explore relationships that cannot be fully defined or explained because they are truthfully-imagined human...
 
Tags: classic stories, stories, relationships, human relationships, classic, human, classic questions, human responses, questions
 
 
 
 
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Rhiannon: Curse of the Four Branches Uses Welsh Mythology To Lure You In