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Points - video commentaries on gamer culture

I recently stumbled across Points, a series of short videos on the people and places behind video games as well as gamer culture as a whole, with a particular focus on Tokyo.
Apparently, there exist such things as game bars. Nice. That’s automatically two of my favorite things right there: gaming and drinking.
What’s more, two of [...]

Comments (2) Posted 23 February 2008 in Games
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Wall dives and the value of game music

Music is almost always present in a game. Be it a character’s theme or the sound that’s playing for the level, it’s there in one form or another. When it’s not, it’s usually done for cinematic purposes, like heightening the player’s fear/suspicion of the current situation or some other gameplay mechanic, and only within a [...]

Comments (3) Posted 18 December 2007 in Games, Music
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