Feature by Harvard L. This is a long-form essay covering the three BioShock games in the lens of art criticism. Spoilers abound. And, also, the focus on art criticism means there will be little assessment of how well the games are made or how fun they are to play, there…
Read MoreOpinion by Matt S. Let’s start by stating the obvious reaction that many people are going to have on reading that headline: no, I don’t for a second consider that video game violence makes people become violent. That is not the thesis of this piece. I don’t think anyone picks…
Read MoreOpinion by Matt S. For anyone following the news, it’s been a pretty distressing couple of days. America experienced not one, but two mass shootings within a 24-hour time span, and these were of a scale large enough to make global news. Yes, America is still on track for more…
Read MoreDon’t worry. We don’t actually talk about Tifa’s boobs, or the ridiculous controversy surrounding them. Much. We have a great podcast for you this week! There’s so many horror games releasing at the moment, so we talk about that, and then we also chat about My Friend Pedro and the…
Read MoreThis week on the DDNet podcast, we chat about DLC and fighting games – with it looking more and more like the genre is heading towards F2P and expanding rosters via DLC, what are our tolerance thresholds for these things. Then we chat about that old chestnut – violence and…
Read MoreOpinion by Matt S. Last week, the White House, run by that insufferable moron that the American people have somehow still tolerated in power, embarked on a full offensive towards game developers and the games industry. They pulled together a video of the most extreme violence in games and all…
Read MoreWell, last week was a dramatic one in the games industry, what with Donald Trump suggesting that games cause the massacres over in the US (and not, you know, the guns). So we have a chat about that, and the broader implications on how we should be talking about this…
Read MoreThis week on Digitally Uploaded kicks off with a discussion about violence in games, or, more specifically, non-violent games. Since last week we have been utterly in love with a little Aussie game called Yonder, and it’s very much like how Zelda: Breath of the Wild would be if Zelda…
Read MoreNews by Matt S. You’ve got to hand it to the French; they really do know their transgressive art. A new game, in development by Paris-based startup Le Cartel, is promising something truly… extreme… in terms of its content. To be published by Devolver Digital on September 5 on PC,…
Read MoreOpinion by Matt S. This is a conversation that needs to happen. Hours after the recent horrific terror attack in America, E3 began, and E3 showed a lot of violence. A lot. This isn’t to say that there is a cause-and-effect here. I.e. No one is saying that video games…
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