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My Virtual Sins: A Gamer’s Confession
Bless me Father, for I have sinned. It has been longer than I can remember since my last confession. These are my sins: I killed a man. No, too modest. On every continent and in all countries, across centuries, worlds and dimensions, in times of war and times of peace, my trail of dead is ...
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Videogames about Videogames: Segagaga
This month’s edition of Edge magazine (E191, August 2008) features an extraordinary interview with Tez Okano, the director of one of Sega’s most unlikely titles, the 2001 Dreamcast game, SGGG (pronounced Segagaga). Released at almost the same moment Sega announced its withdrawal from the console manufacturing business, it’s a game about a console-maker on the ...
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What Will We Find?
We took my three-year-old daughter Estelle for a picnic on Saturday. After driving around for a bit we ended up in a park on top of the greenest hill for miles. It was a super pastoral scene: bumblebees, flowers and cricketers nearby, sheep grazing in the middle distance, the ghosts of clouds high above. After ...