
How much strain does online gaming put on the Internet?
The answer might surprise you.
The answer might surprise you.
Oscar bait comes to videogames.
Why do we accept floating cities, but never singing maidens?
We chat with an exhausted Ken Levine just before the launch of the third installment of BioShock.
In the second part of our conversation, the Tomb Raider penner walks us through the treacherous jungle of gender politics, reflects on whether we’re ready for “braver” characters, and postulates on Lara Croft’s other selves.
Lara Croft’s influence on modern videogames is incalculable. So the potential outcome of a reimagining of her character and corresponding hero’s journey was understandably inestimable. After several months of controversy surrounding alleged depictions of rape in the new Tomb Raider, the game was finally released last month to ecstatic reviews. So ecstatic, in fact, that many critics came to find the entire question of the game’s dubiously sexist underpinnings “silly,” to quote one popular review. But just because critics are done fretting about Lara’s legacy, are Tomb Raider’s creators themselves? I caught up with veteran games writer and Tomb Raider…
“If you set out to make a gay video game that would be the worst video game ever.”
Should we feel self-conscious about playing a game with rampant erotic juvenalia and giant demon fetuses roaming about? That question should answer itself, but, well, it’s complicated…
How Jeffrey Yohalem took a AAA franchise and made a game about the violent escapism of his generation.