This is the fourth and final part of Critical Mass Effect, a close look at the Mass Effect series. Previous entries are:
This final entry looks at Mass Effect 3, […]
I made two New Years Resolutions for 2014:
1. Update this blog at least once a month.
2. Do not purchase any video games for the first half of the year (excluding games where at least 30% of proceeds goes to charity, e.g. Humble Bundles).
The first is the sort of resolution every lazy writer makes. The second is […]
Last year, I wrote a one-sentence description of every game I played in 2012. I’m making this an annual tradition, so let the run-on sentences commence! Because throwing glowing adjectives in a sentence gets tiresome quickly, this is not intended to be fair in any way shape or form; some of these are serious commentary, some […]
“Murder simulator” has been one of the most popular rhetorical sledgehammers in the national FUD campaign against violent video games. Popularized by Dave Grossman in his 1996 book On Killing, the phrase was repeatedly used by provacateur Jack Thompson and the mainstream media when attempting to tie violent video games to real-life killings.
The term wasn’t just hyperbolic – […]
