Twitchdoctor
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Americans no longer reach for the stars. They reach for cars.
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The End of the Future
Posted: April 18, 2012 by Twitchdoctor in game design, Games and LifeTags: Discovery, NASA, Smithsonian, space exploration, Space Shuttle, Space Shuttle Discovery, Washington DC
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Our Plays Are Numbered
Posted: March 15, 2012 by Twitchdoctor in Games and Marketing, Games and the Media, Games and WritingTags: Chuck Klosterman, criticism, Doom 3, game reviews, IGN, Review, Video game
If today’s videogames are the bloated, unattractive, past-their-prime but still touchingly vulnerable men who frequent massage parlors, game reviewers are the bored women who try listlessly to appear enthusiastic as they snap on the rubber gloves in order to get to the happy ending over and done with as quickly as possible.
In the beginning was Wikipedia
Posted: March 7, 2012 by Twitchdoctor in New MediaTags: Andrew Orlowski, collective intelligence, crowd sourcing, hive mind, Larry Sanger, Open Source, Wikipedia
Everyone has heard the old hacker slogan “Information wants to be free.” But it turns out that information doesn’t want to be free: instead, it wants you to buy it an Alexander McQueen dress and fly it to Paris for a night on the town.
A Change is Gonna Come
Posted: February 24, 2012 by Twitchdoctor in Game Players, Games and Life, New MediaTags: Bioware, casual games, hardcore games, Jennifer Hepler, Reddit, Twitter
What would cause a large group of gamers to call a perfectly ordinary and inoffensive videogame story writer a cunt, a whore, a Jew, and a cancer, among many other things? Apart from the fact that they are users of the Internet? The impending end of their world, that’s what.
Managing Expectations
Posted: December 9, 2011 by Twitchdoctor in Exemplary Games, game design, Games and MarketingTags: Bioware, Electronic Arts, Guild, Massively multiplayer online game, MMORPG, star wars, Star Wars: The Old Republic, SWTOR
When it comes to playing The Game of the Year taking a “glass half empty” approach is the saner course.
Looking for Wuv in All the Wrong Places
Posted: September 30, 2011 by Twitchdoctor in New MediaTags: Apple, Facebook, Facebook Changes, Facebook Timeline, information technology, new media, Technology, Twitter
Occasionally you come across something on the Web that forces you to stare unflinchingly into the dark heart of humanity. Well, OK, on the Web that happens more than occasionally and not simply when you are frequenting 4Chan. Sometimes, however, the experience isn’t simply repellent and/or tedious but actually illustrates something profound about the evolution of human nature and its vexed relationship with digital technologies.
