Dub's Diatribe: Misogyny Bad, Violence OK.

Nothing from me today, but here is an excellent post from a former GameSquad alumnus who has just effectively and succinctly called out politically correct game reviewers for their cognitive dissonance. Check it out!

Dub's Diatribe: Misogyny Bad, Violence OK.: I must admit that I am probably bothered by Gamespot's recent review of Grand Theft Auto V and the subsenquent response to the review ...

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Gamer's Review: Hellsing Ultimate

Is it too early to start queuing up some entertainment for Halloween? Just a bit. Regardless, I find myself doing just that. Part of the reason is that summer for my region never really arrived. Instead of the requisite heat and humidity, we were treated to largely cool, dry days. Really, it has felt like little more than an extended late spring or early autumn. As a result I have found myself yearning to get autumn underway as there isn't any point of continuing this useless summer. This is why I have been looking forward to Halloween: it is THE holiday of autumn! But in addition to that, two games have recently awakened in me a love for the horror of "urban fantasy": Shadowrun Returns , and The Secret World . As I detailed here , those two games have hit a home run with me, and made me reconsider the whole horror genre - a genre I never particularly cared for seeing the low budget "torture porn" tripe coming out of Hollywood...

The Catholic Sensibilities of Shadowrun Returns

"Classic cyberpunk characters were marginalized, alienated loners who lived on the edge of society in generally dystopic futures where daily life was impacted by rapid technological change, an ubiquitous datasphere of computerized information, and invasive modification of the human body." – Lawrence Person It has often been observed that Christ did not associate with the rich and powerful, but rather with the downtrodden, the rejected, the disreputable. This is no small thing to consider, especially in a world where the glitterati continue to dominate popular culture. Oh sure, the have-nots are often feted, sometimes even by the glittering class itself, but only ever so briefly. Very quickly they are ushered off the stage, usually when the celebri tire of the spectacle, and are promptly forgotten until the next round of self-hating guilt bubbles to the surface of the rich and powerful's collective psyche. Alas, such is the way of the world. Be t...

You Made Me Do This!

...And by "this" I mean a return to tabletop gaming. Oh, and by "you" I mean you lousy game developers . Okay, that might be a bit harsh, but I am angry. Very angry. You have killed PC gaming for me. Kaput. Finished. Done. I just can't take anymore of the slop being shoveled my way. And I certainly tried to put up with it for as long as possible. I mean, just take a look at this blog, one of my many, many blogs, where I desperately tried to put lipstick on a pig. But in the final analysis it has proven to be all for naught. PC gaming, video gaming - whatever you want to call it, - is now dead to me. For the time being, anyway. I think this realization really hit home with the spectacular launch fiasco that was X: Rebirth . I mean, here we had a dedicated PC game developer, one beloved by fans around the world, that released what could be described as an awful and incomplete console port. This fiasco wa...

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