BioWare teams with George Lucas for an MMO that’s more Jar Jar than Obi-Wan.
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Tom Bissell: The Mercury Interview
A New Way of Thinking (and Writing) about Videogames
Earlier this week, I interviewed Portland writer/professor/gamer Tom Bissell about his new book Extra Lives: Why Video Games Matter. Bissell’s book is absolutely fantastic, and a short version of my interview with him can be found here. Between gameplay sessions of Dead Space and Demon Souls, Bissell and I talked for like an hour and […]
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Mass Effect 2: Mass Effect-ier!
BioWare has taken everything great about Mass Effect and made it better in Mass Effect 2.
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Jackson Pollock Goes
to Middle-earth
Dragon Age: Origins ranks as one of BioWare’s best games yet.
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Visine, Please
MY EYES HAVE BEEN BLOODSHOT for about two weeks—a timeframe that, not coincidentally, corresponds with how long I’ve been playing Mass Effect. Epic and ambitious—sometimes overly so—the game’s most notable characteristic might be its ability to convince you that you really only need an hour or two of sleep a night. I had the same […]