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Why Big Video Game Announcements Don’t Hit Like E3 Used To

"It’s that wider sort of crisis in not just games, but a lot of cultural stuff"

$550,000 For A Spot In Summer Game Fest? In This Economy?

"I don’t know about that, man. That’s a lot of money for a few minutes"

Call Of Duty Will Do 9/11 And Other Summer Game Fest Predictions

"Lights dim. Immediately shows a digitized re-creation of 9/11. No other details"

Why People Don’t Catch The Politics In Their Favorite Games

"There’s something very intentional about consuming or framing these works as entertainment rather than as art"

Triple-A Publishers Are Dooming Themselves, But Maybe That’s Not Such A Bad Thing

"If the ideas are there and the game is fun to play, then are we really losing that much?"

Microsoft And Sony Have Lost The Plot

"They don’t have a culture anymore. They killed their culture"

The Fallout TV Series Is Fun, But It Really Wants You To Know That It’s Fallout

"There's Yum Yum deviled eggs! There's stimpacks! That's a Yao Guai!"