Chris Dahlen's Recent Blog Entries

• Survival Of The Fittest

  Modern Warfare 2 didn’t muddle its morals: the game has no morals, and that’s exactly the way we like it, argues Chris Dahlen.

  So I’ll confess: watching Planet Earth turns me into a nervous wreck. I know a lot of people like to get buzzed and watch the ducks cruise the mountains in high-def, but when I watch the show, all I see is the killing. The fox with the gosling in its jaws. The harlequin shrimp dragging a starfish into their lair to feed on it for days. Yes, I knew that nature's a little Darwinian, but when you watch it hour after hour you realise what it means when the fittest and the luckiest survive.

  November 18, 2009
• The Mecca Of Videogames

  Chris Dahlen is lucky to live just an hour from the world’s greatest classic arcade, Funspot - so lucky that he takes it for granted.

  John Teti thought I was nuts. He didn’t say it, but I could tell: here I was, a game journo who lived just an hour away from Funspot, and I’d never been there once.

  November 10, 2009
• The Most Boring Game of the Year

  It’s addictive and absorbing - but unless you’re playing it, Demon’s Souls is staggeringly dull, says Chris Dahlen.

  Playing Demon’s Souls makes me a boring person.

  I've been playing the game. A lot. And I love it. A lot. The other night I spent hours with it, and in those hours, all I did was farm the same sections again and again, futz around with my gear, gain a few soul levels, and kill one Vanguard demon - and I killed him by shooting about fifty arrows into his forehead while he just stood there scratching himself.

  November 4, 2009