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Numbers Cannot Lie
Over at Dubious Quality, Bill Harris runs some numbers on his videogaming habits and comes to the conclusion that expensive mega-hits like Call of Duty are doomed to extinction:
“Would I rather buy one $59 game or 20 mobile games? With almost no exceptions (NHL and Skyrim are the only two this year, I bet), I’d rather have a mobile games. They fit into my 10-minute lifestyle really well, and I can start them up in 5 seconds.”
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Carol Borden was editor of and a writer for the Toronto International Film Festival’s official Midnight Madness and Vanguard program blogs. She is currently an editor at and evil overlord for The Cultural Gutter, a website dedicated to thoughtful writing about disreputable art. She has written for Mezzanotte, Teleport City, Die Danger Die Die Kill, Popshifter and she has a bunch of short stories published by Fox Spirit Books including: Godzilla detective fiction, femme fatale mermaids, an adventurous translator/poet, and an x-ray tech having a bad day. Read and listen to her other shenanigans at Monstrous Industry. For her particular take on gutter culture, check out, “In the Sewer with the Alligators.”
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My flailing unfinished review of Fallout 3 has mostly become a meditation on whether what we call “video games” are even video games at this point, and whether it’s even fair to think of something like Fallout 3 as being in the same genre as, say Angry Birds, or whether what we actually have on our hands now is a whole new medium of entertainment that has been saddled with a name that no longer applies.
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The above is a pretty awesome run-on sentence, soo!
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the time, place and reason in my life for Angry Birds is radically different than something like Shadow of the Colossus, Fallout, or even Little Big Planet, which is arguably more similar. i like both kinds of games, but they don’t serve the same purpose and the creators have different artistic goals. so yeah, it does seem like they’ve branched off enough from one another that some new naming is in order.
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