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[Featurama] Does Warren Spector Have a Point?

I was 13 when The Beastie Boys burst onto the scene with Licensed to Ill. It was a bratty, nasty, funny combination of rap, rock and roll, and bad behavior. It was the soundtrack to my life back in the mid-80s. 13 years later, while playing at the Reading Festival, the Beasties got into it with The Prodigy over their hit song Smack My Bitch Up, saying that they didn’t want to be sharing a stage with sentiments like that. [...]

[Rant] We Get the Games Industry We Deserve

There’s a great line in Chris Rock’s standup comedy movie Never Scared. In it, he was talking about current rap music and he says, “I love rap music, but I can’t defend it”. That’s kind of how I feel about video games lately.

[News] The War Z Has Been Removed From Steam

Hey, remember that time I wrote a post about The War Z being released on Steam, and said “Whether this early release translates into big sales remains to be seen”? Well, it turns out we have an answer to that question. The War Z was removed from Steam’s store page today, with no word on if/when it’s coming back. This move is in response to accusations of false advertising and dishonest practices on the part of the developers. That, coupled [...]