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Aug
29
My XBox 360 Broke Part III (For Sure)
Category: Xbox 360, Microsoft, Hardware, suck | 
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I might as well just devote 1pstart in its entirety to my Xbox 360 breaking, since it seems to happen enough to make it worthwhile. So as you can probably tell from the title, the thing finally errored out. It finally seized up a couple of times on the 360 logo and then eventually gave […]
Aug
29
Opinion: ‘gg Game Auteur, no re’
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[In an in-depth opinion piece, game designer and researcher Douglas Wilson urges more collaborative approaches to game design, suggesting that “the ‘auteur’ school of game development is not only outmoded, but dangerous to the vitality of the medium”.]
As I see it, indie game culture faced a major crossroads at the 2008 Nordic Game Jam.
The biggest […]
Aug
29
[Perhaps EVE Online economy articles are a little passe at this point, but hey, Mathew Kumar was at the Edinburgh Interactive Festival to see in-world economist Dr. Eyjolfur talk about some neeto macro-economic trends he sees in the trading and pillaging-crazy game, and who are we at GSW not to bring it to you?]
As economists […]
Aug
29
GameSetLinks: The Tao Of Fry
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Ah yes, some marvellous GameSetLink-age, headed by the delightful Stephen Fry — British comedic genius — grinning happily over his Nintendo DS, as all of us often do.
Also hanging out in here - a very cheeky Mariopolitical video by Jared Rea, dieting as an RPG, the Antiques Roadshow twins discussing video game collecting, the […]