Category Archives: Games Blather

Videogames, Photorealism, and Emotion

A few days ago Christoph Hartmann, president of 2K Games, said that in order for games to push into new artistic territory we’ll need to reach a point where photorealism is possible. In his own words: “To dramatically change the industry to … Continue reading

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Rezzed: A Chat With Dean “Rocket” Hall (Part Two)

Here’s part two of my interview with Dean “Rocket” Hall, creator of Arma II mod (and Haruspex Games’ current 2012 Game of the Year) DayZ. Again, due to the death of my dictaphone I wasn’t able to transcribe the interview, … Continue reading

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The Kickstarter Craze: Ice-Pick Lodge and the Small, Cult Developer

Ice-Pick Lodge, the Russian developers behind the astonishing Pathologic and The Void, as well as last year’s bizarre, fascinating, but flawed Cargo, has just launched a Kickstarter project for their new game Knock-Knock. If you don’t know what Kickstarter is, it’s a website where people … Continue reading

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