![]() |
||||||||
|
Complete alphabetical listing of directory topics: Wagner James Au
Playing games with free speech
A federal judge says computer games don't deserve First Amendment protection. His decision is wrong, stupid and dangerous.
Triumph of the mod
Player-created additions to computer games aren't a hobby anymore -- they're the lifeblood of the industry.
Burn down the shopping malls!
A new game for Sony's Playstation 2 invites you to run amok as an anti-globalization anarchist. Is State of Emergency a new low in cynical corporate exploitation -- or consciousness-raising in a box?
"We were wrong"
Now when will Nader, Moore, Steinem, Chomsky -- and the other leftists who were monumentally mistaken about the war in Afghanistan -- join me in admitting it?
The return of Lord British
Banished from his own Ultima domains, game designer Richard Garriott is making a comeback, via Korea.
Xbox squared
Microsoft's game-box revolution takes the path of mediocrity, while Sony's Playstation seizes the creative high ground.
Slo-mo gore, John Woo style
In the hit computer game Max Payne, death comes with a cost: Your own tortured soul.
Boobs and rubes
The soft-porn fixation embarrassingly displayed at computer gaming's biggest convention, E3, is dooming the $6 billion industry to the nerd-geek ghetto.
Playing God
By Wagner James Au
Playing God
The long-awaited game Black & White is everything fans hoped it would be: A state-of-the-art excursion into our own souls. Complete alphabetical listing of directory topics: |
|
||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arts & Entertainment | Books | Comics | Life | News | People
Politics | Sex | Tech & Business and The Free Software Project | Audio
Letters | Columnists | Salon Plus | Salon Gear
Reproduction of material from any Salon pages without written permission is strictly prohibited
Copyright 2005 Salon.com