The Days Of “Bleep, Bloop” Are No More
As children, many of us will have played video games that relied entirely on gameplay to make them popular. Some of the earlier video games had absolutely no incidental music, Continue Reading
Obligatory Merchandising – Where Would We Be Without It?
Not so long ago, when a movie was completed and released for the public to watch, there was a very simple pattern to things. The movie was scripted, then edited, Continue Reading
Testing Your Mind – The Video Games Where No-one Gets Shot
The popular view of video games seems to be that they entail someone sitting with a controller in their hands, shooting people on a screen. Of course, this is a Continue Reading
The Controversy Angle – Selling Newspapers Through Video Games
It is hard to talk about video games for a long time without mentioning Grand Theft Auto. And it is hard to mention Grand Theft Auto without talking about the Continue Reading
Virtual Reality – The Games That Got Away
Some time around the middle of the 1990s, there was a widely held belief that the future of video gaming was the Virtual Reality headset. In the future, we were Continue Reading
A Gym For The Mind
Hands up if you have heard someone say “those video games are no good – they rot the brain and poison the mind“, or something that approaches that attitude in Continue Reading
A Gaming Evening – This Generation’s Bridge Party
Although the present generation are frequently attacked by their “elders” for the way in which they behave, it is fair to say that there is a certain amount of that Continue Reading
Video Game Addiction – It Is Real
You will hear it said a lot, if you spend much time around gamers or their friends or parents – or indeed if you yourself are a gamer. The word Continue Reading
Suspend Your Disbelief
One of the things that is used as a stick with which to beat the gamer is the idea that gaming is a “fantasy world“. Some people do believe that Continue Reading
Good Evening, Sports Fans
The rise of sport simulations on video game consoles started a few decades ago, but the advances that the medium has made since then are quite something to behold. There Continue Reading