Zombie Parables
We all know it but someone has to say it: zombies are the new vampires. Vampires had a lovely sort of fin-de-siècle decadence about them that perfectly suited the mood of the late 20th century. Rising...
View ArticleJonathan Coulton: Blinded with Aperture Science
Marshall McLuhan was fond of observing that the content of a new medium is always an older medium. He would likely have taken a certain amount of satisfaction out of the notion that the job of popular...
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Adventures in the Uncanny Valley
On November 19, 2008, Microsoft relaunched the XBox Live Network with a brand-new (bearing in mind that with Microsoft, new is always a relative state of mind) avatar-based interface, and the...
View ArticleZero Punctuation: The Lester Bangs of Video Gaming
Way, way back in 2006, in the esteemed pages of Esquire magazine, Mr. Chuck Klosterman threw down the following journalistic gauntlet: “there is no Lester Bangs of video game writing.” In a footnote...
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