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Black Professionals In Games: NGai Croal Talks Stereotypes, Finding Video Games Spike Lee

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2008-04-07 13:00:59 by Tracey John in MTV Multiplayer
...NGai Croal , General Technology Editor at Newsweek (and friend to Multiplayer ). In his tiny, video game-filled office, the Canadian-born, 35 year-old told me his career in journalism began in part because of race. A writer for the Stanford University newspaper during his undergraduate years, Croal once wrote a column criticizing Newsweek s...
 
Tags: video games, play games, play, experience video games, video game industry, game industry, play video games, specific video games, games
 
 
 
 
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NGai Croal: EA-T2 Merger Could Face Anti-trust Problems

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2008-03-31 13:40:12 by GamePolitics in GamePolitics.com
...NGai Croal Croal serves up a guest post from one of his readers, Justin Blankenship, who formerly worked for the Federal Trade Commission. While with the FTC, Blankenships assignment was to review potential technology and entertainment mergers for anti-trust violations. Of the EA-T2 situation, Blankenship writes Although EAs offer may...
 
Tags: sports, take-twos sports games, sports division, sports leagues, sports games, hockey, hockey games, sports videogames, professional hockey videogames
 
 
 
 
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Newsweeks NGai Croal On The Resident Evil 5' Trailer: This Imagery Has A History

2008-04-10 15:26:25 by Editor in N4G.com : News Feed : gaming
 
...NGai Croal of Newsweek During our conversation about the portrayal of black people in games, we talked about the controversy surrounding the Resident Evil 5 trailer that debuted at last years E3 It depicts a white protagonist going into an apparently poverty-stricken village (the location is unspecified) and killing throngs of black...
 
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Newsweeks NGai Croal On The Resident Evil 5 Trailer: This Imagery Has A History

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2008-04-10 15:00:44 by Tracey John in MTV Multiplayer
...NGai Croal of Newsweek During our conversation about the portrayal of black people in games, we talked about the controversy surrounding the Resident Evil 5 trailer that debuted at last years E3 It depicts a white protagonist going into an apparently poverty-stricken village (the location is unspecified) and killing throngs of black zombified...
 
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Newsweeks NGai Croal: RE5 Contains Racist Imagery

2008-04-12 16:01:57 by GamePolitics in GamePolitics.com
 
...NGai Croal was the focus of the series opening article, MTV Multiplayer decided to devote a second installment to hisperspective on whether or not there is racism in Capcoms upcoming Resident Evil 5 Some readers will no doubt recall last years controversy , triggered bya trailer which showed the RE5 s white protagonist mowing down scores of...
 
Tags: imagery, racist imagery, zombies, black zombies, black, black professionals, classic racist imagery, resident evil, black hawk
 
 
 
 
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NGai Croals games to look forward to in 2008

2008-06-18 08:42:16 by RawmeatCowboy in GoNintendo
 
...NGai Croal isnt too impressed with the rest of 2008, but he has hand-picked some games that stand out from the crowd. There are some titles all across the board that should have gamers excited. The best part for Nintendo fans is, we dont even know what Nintendo has in-store for the rest of 2008. We could come away from E3 with a ton of titles...
 
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NGai Croal - The Sims movie is a bad idea

2008-09-23 02:37:03 by RawmeatCowboy in GoNintendo
 
...NGai Croal Well, I couldnt agree with that more. When I first heard that TheSims was going to be turned into a movie, I thought it was a joke. Now that I know the details behind it, I still think its a joke. Click here to read Mr. Croals full piece Link
 
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Croal And Totilo Tackle Burnout: Paradise Vs Mode Round One

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2008-01-28 05:01:29 by Stephen Totilo in MTV Multiplayer
...NGai Croal and I are locking horns for one of our Vs. Modes . For the unitiatied, these are unapologetically long debates between me and NGai about major video games The game up for debate this time is Burnout Paradise When we signed up for this exchange we had two very different views on the game. As I state in my kick-off to todays Round...
 
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Croal Vs Totilo - Patapon, Round One

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2008-03-24 04:15:15 by Stephen Totilo in MTV Multiplayer
...NGai Croal . This time, we tackle PSP rhythm-war game Patapon Slight problem: we both really liked this game Never fear, however. I think weve got some stuff in here that will provoke you NGai lays out the three things that make the game special for him: The Power of Indirect Control, The Importance of Feel, And The Thrill of Iconic Design....
 
Tags: extend rhythm game, rhythm game, patapon, game, simple game, rare game, non-game form, game special, special