Tuesday, March 23, 2010

Girls & Games: getting the issues straight

January 6, 2010 by Snezana N  
Filed under Articles, Features

Discussing girls & games issues like ponies, women as a target group, nudeness, and women making games.

All Aboard The Censorship (part two)

December 17, 2009 by Luke K  
Filed under Articles, Features

The OFLC (Office of Film and Literature Classification) in Australia is stricter than most other similar bodies elsewhere in the world, but is unforgiving when it comes to video games. Incredibly, there exists no R18+ certificate for video games in Australia.

All Aboard The Censorship (part one)

December 14, 2009 by Luke K  
Filed under Articles, Features

The idea of human rights applying to on – screen fictional characters who are nothing more than data on a disc (or hard drive) is so ludicrous, I don’t feel the need to explain any further. I must be fair, however; the study’s main concern (ostensibly, at any rate) was that players of certain games are able to virtually commit war crimes, or other breaches of human rights.

Top ten lists of top 10 lists: The top ten

October 14, 2009 by Luke K  
Filed under Articles, Features, PC, PS3, Wii, Xbox 360

Everybody loves to read at least half a dozen inane top ten lists a month, right? Of course they do! That’s why N4G is constantly clogged up with them, and anybody who suggests it’s a quick and easy way for lazy talentless writers to fill up their sites obviously doesn’t know what they’re talking about. So boys and girls, have we ever got a treat for you here!

Thank You, Alan Turing

September 19, 2009 by Luke K  
Filed under Articles, DS/DSi, Features, PC, PS3, PSP/PSPGo, Wii, Xbox 360

If the name sounds familiar but you’re not sure why, you may have heard it in the news recently.

Sex In Games (or the lack thereof) part one

September 8, 2009 by Luke K  
Filed under Articles, Features

WARNING! This article contains videos of heavily edited and/or highly unrealistic sex scenes. If you are one of the ten people walking the earth likely to be genuinely offended by such content, please do not play them. Simple as that.

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