The Wall Street Journal recently did a story about people who play video games as pacifists where they attempt to make it through typically violent games without killing anything. For example Daniel Mullins has been playing Skyrim as Felix the Peaceful Monk and he has yet to register any kills in the game.
Live performance of World of Warcraft Medley at the Video Game Music Choir’s Winter 2010 Concert. Music composed by Russel Brower, Derek Duke, and Matt Uelmen. Arranged by Chelsea Treglia. Video directed and edited by Daniel Jimenez. Video Game Music Choir founded and directed by Julia Seeholzer. Audio engineered/mixed by Akash Thakkar. Special thanks to Jeanine Cowen.
You never really realize how much games have evolved over the recent century until it’s right in front of your eyes in minutes. Munich-based quartet of game design students responsible for this video have created something special here. As a bonus they also show us how our TV’s have evolved as well. Enough of me talking about it, watch the video for your self.
Insert Coin is a new stop-motion animation by Ninja Moped (who made the equally impressive 8-bit trip). The animation, featuring only quarters on a black blanket, is so flawless that it is generating some discussion among Net skeptics and counter-skeptics.
The latest Symphony of Science has been released, and it’s the best since the original release, A Glorious Dawn. This video features David Attenborough and Jane Goodall, as well as Carl Sagan.
This morning, I watched the video clip accompanying an ABC News story entitled “Mexico Drug War Hangs Over ‘Spring Break’“. The story covers the dangers of spring break now that a drug war is being waged across Mexico so near its popular Spring Break hot spots like Cancun.
…the things is, every since I saw the video, all I can think of is what an AWESOME video game that would make. Just think of it: A first-person shoot that casts players in the role of a camo-wearing, M-16-toting Mexican federale trying to root drug dealers out of the Cancun resort strip, avoiding ambushes, and doing your best not to kill the scantily-clad spring break chicks and other assorted drunken by-standers mobbing the beaches. It would kind of be a hybrid of Call of Duty and The Guy Game.
Yeah, I’m probably a horrible person for thinking how much fun the carnage of a Spring Break massacre would be… but who are you to judge? You be right in the middle of that line wrapped around Best Buy on release night if it were a real game.
Call of Duty: World at War, Mirror’s Edge, and World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King will hit the shelves this week in rapid succession, leaving a good number of hardcore gamers at home with the twenty-hour flu.
WWE SmackDown vs. Raw 2009 (DS, PS2, PS3, PSP, Wii, X360)
Avatar – The Last Airbender: Into the Inferno (DS)
Brain Challenge (Wii)
Call of Duty: World at War Final Fronts (PS2)
MLB Superstars (Wii)
Pony Friends: Mini Breeds Edition (DS)
Populous (DS)
The Three Stooges (PC)
Winx Club: Mission Echantrix (DS)
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This week’s notable release is the Lego Batman: The Video Game, and, since the first LEGO Star Wars turned out to be so playable for adults as well as kids, it’s also probably the hottest pick of the week.
Brain Quest Grades 3 & 4 (DS)
de Blob (Wii)
Bounce, ricochet, and swing through Chroma City as you, de Blob, try to restore the world’s drained color.
Di-Gata Defenders (DS)
DropCast (DS)
Hell’s Kitchen (PC)
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