Open Letter to David Cameron

Further to my post earlier today I have emailed the leader of the UK’s Conservative Party regarding his announcement yesterday regarding video games. The body of the email is after the jump.

The Beauty That Is Bioshock

You’ve probably noticed that over the past week or so I haven’t been able to shut up about Bioshock. Well I thought that I should give you a definitive score for the game and collate some of my gushing into one post.

Bioshock Banned By Valve

Potential game of the year, Bioshock, is already courting media controversy with its Little Sister dilemma and now Valve have banned it. Not to worry though you can still get it through Steam, Valve have merely banned it in their offices until The Orange Box is shipped. In yet another interview, this time for [...]

Chinese Anti-Corruption MMO Crashed By Too Many Players

A government sponsored online game called Incorruptible Warrior which teaches players about government anti-corruption measures whilst they hunt down and kill corrupt officials has been brought down by high demand. The game was originally released on July 25th with space for 600 players at a time, by August 1st it had over 10,000 registered users. [...]

Games Do Horror Better Than Movies

Clive Thompson, no relation to Jack it would seem, over at Wired Magazine has an interesting article up about how the Horror genre is better served by an interactive medium than by Film. Of course he mentions the horror game of the moment, Bioshock, in the first sentence and continues to refer to it throughout, [...]

Violent Video Games Are A Cause Of Crime, Says Cameron

To those of you living in the States this isn’t likely to be news, you have various senators and presidential hopefuls jumping on the anti-game bandwagon almost continually. Over here in the UK though our politicians have had a history of doing things a little differently. With a history of relatively liberal (in the classical [...]

Bioshock Orchestral Soundtrack Free Download

The Cult of Rapture has the Garry Schyman penned orchestral background music which plays a big part in creating the atmosphere of Bioshock available as a free 23 MB download. If you haven’t played the game, the music is worth listening to on its own merits, if you have played the game you can [...]

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