Here's one: why there aren't many civilians in military shooters? The first answer's obvious - so you can't shoot them and games aren't pilloried as awful murder simulators. But doesn't a game world in which everything you kill is an enemy, and therefore deserving, tacitly reinforce the idea that lethal force is always OK? Michael Thomsen's question in his Slate column provides a good head scratcher, spanning MW2's No Russian to Six Days In Fallujah.
Angry Birds fancy dress costumes. It has come to this.
Also, Angry Birds is being used as a motif in LGBT parades in Taipei. The pigs represent prejudice.
John Carmack coded Quake on a 1920x1080 monitor, way back in 1995. It was The Silicon Graphics/Integraph InterView 28hd96, and it weighed 45kg. He uses dual Dell 30" monitors now: "Far cheaper and less exotic than the old gear at the tine. Progress!" (Via Reddit)
Spot the gaming influences in this firstperson escape from work, the video for Biting Elbows' single The Stampede.
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5What? There have been civilians in shooters since the days of Goldeneye and Half-Life.
The article was many not any. And the main reason is look at the old FPS: Soldier of Fortune.
In that game if you shot a civilian in New York you'd automatically lose, but if you shot an Iraqi citizen in the Middle Eastern stages there was absolutely zero repercussions at all. The game just ignored it.
Once there was an outcry the devs hastily coded a patch to make it a mission failable offence to murder Iraqi civilians too. Meaning it was a conscious decision on their part to make it perfectly acceptable to kill one sort of civilians (Iraqis) and not another sort (New Yorkers)
No wonder telling people you're a games developer is as popular a decision as telling them you're a convicted paedophile.
.... i thought the game implied in this was mirrors edge, not sof...
kinda almost got great in the office escape :)
Soldier of Fortune was a great game :)
Perhaps they were making a social comment - the West's apathy to Iraqi civilian deaths at the hands of Western troops.