Quantcast
www.fgks.org   »   [go: up one dir, main page]

Multimedia
Moving Pixels: 2010 Game of the Year Edition
As the diversity of our picks reveal, 2010 was a difficult year to pick a single Game of the Year for, which has only been a good thing for gamers. [5.Jan.11]
Majesty 2: Battles of Ardania
By Thomas Cross
It’s impossible to amass a small army of heroes and protective buildings without a measured approach to spending, infrastructure maintenance, and taxation. [5.Jan.11]
The Business of Falling in Love with the Virtual
The video guy (or girl) isn't attractive simply out of an immediate reflexive response to him but because of an ongoing and ever evolving coexistence shared with him. [4.Jan.11]
Moving Pixels Podcast: The Best of Last Generation Gaming
While others are looking forward to the new year, the Moving Pixels podcast takes a look back at the best of last generation gaming. [3.Jan.11]
Lucha Libre AAA: El Heroes Del Ring
Lucha Libre AAA: El Heroes Del Ring represents the first real attempt to bring the popular Mexican spectacle to the forefront in video games. [3.Jan.11]
Mixed Media
News
By John Timpane
Twitter has been involved in several of the biggest — and silliest — news stories of the year, both in the celebrisphere… [16.Dec.10]
Reviews
By Thomas Cross
It’s impossible to amass a small army of heroes and protective buildings without a measured approach to spending, infrastructure maintenance, and taxation. [05.Jan.11]
Lucha Libre AAA: El Heroes Del Ring represents the first real attempt to bring the popular Mexican spectacle to the forefront in video games. [03.Jan.11]
Splatterhouse offers gore galore and a bad-ass attitude, but is it any fun to play? If your name is also Rick, it just might be. [24.Dec.10]
With the technological advances of next-gen systems, games designers have a choice to make: aim for real life depictions of people, violence, and action or take more of an arcade approach, ignoring the laws of physics and normal human interaction. The Goldeneye 007 remake fails precisely because it refuses to choose a side. [15.Dec.10]
Vanquish is the sci-fi shooter version of Bayonetta: deliriously over-the-top, with core mechanics that remain fun and challenging even after several hours of play. [13.Dec.10]
While previous games have boiled down to fetch quests, revenge and bloodlust, Ghost of Sparta is a pure family affair. [10.Dec.10]
From The Blogs
Columns
Moving Pixels
This has been an incredibly fruitful year for independent game design, featuring games that are beautiful to look at, funny as hell, and even a few that provoke pleasure even as they make us more than a little uncomfortable. [29.Nov.10]
Moving Pixels
As an interactive medium, the roles that we play in video games are just as dependent on how we approach a game as they are up to the developer. Neither side has total control over the experience, so there’s a constant tug-of-war between authority and autonomy. [08.Nov.10]
Features
By Devon Campbell
The key observation to be made about the evolution of games into the violent extravaganzas of today is that, if you change the controller, you change everything. [02.Dec.10]
Now on PopMatters
Summing Up Camelot in One Word: Excalibur? (Mixed Media) [Wed, 7:40 am]
Moving Pixels: 2010 Game of the Year Edition (Moving Pixels) [Wed, 7:00 am]
Majesty 2: Battles of Ardania (Reviews) [Wed, 2:09 am]
The Best Male Film Performances of 2010 (Features) [Wed, 1:00 am]
Nicki Minaj: Pink Friday (Reviews) [Wed, 1:00 am]
The Arms Akimbo: The Arms Akimbo (Capsule Reviews) [Wed, 12:59 am]
  1. The 70 Best Albums of 2010 (Features)
  2. The 60 Best Songs of 2010 (Features)
  3. The Best Metal Albums of 2010 (Columns)
  4. The Best 20 Re-Issues of 2010 (Features)
  5. The Best Electronic Music of 2010 (Features)
  6. The Best Indie Pop of 2010 (Features)
  7. Short Ends and Leader's 10 Worst DVDs of 2010 (Short Ends and Leader)
  8. Have Yourself a Counter-Culture XMas: Red-Nosed Misfits, Elven Outlaws & Bearded Marxists (Features)
  9. The Best Independent / International Films of 2010 (Features)
  10. Social-media psychodrama (Marginal Utility)
  11. The Top 10 Films of 2010 That You Never Heard Of (Short Ends and Leader)
  12. Michael Jackson: Michael (Reviews)
  13. The Business of Falling in Love with the Virtual (Moving Pixels)
  14. Counterbalance No. 14: The Beatles' 'The Beatles' AKA "The White Album" (Sound Affects)
  15. Our Lady Peace Look Back at 'Spiritual Machines' a Decade Later (Features)
  16. Short Ends and Leader's 10 Worst Films of 2010 (Short Ends and Leader)
  17. The Guilty Pleasure Films of 2010 (Features)
  18. Clash City (Columns)
  19. Gaming and Politics in 2010 (Moving Pixels)
  20. Soundscape Mix #11: Happy Holidays (Columns)
  21. Essential Film Performances - 2010 Edition (Special Sections)
  22. 'Gulliver's Travels': Lumbering (Reviews)
  23. Ghosts of Presents Past: The 1950s (Mixed Media)
  24. 'My Strange Addiction' Series Premiere (Reviews)
  25. Short Ends and Leader's 10 Best Films of 2010 (Short Ends and Leader)
  26. Short Ends and Leader's 10 Best DVDs of 2010 (Short Ends and Leader)
  27. The Guilty Pleasure Television of 2010 (Features)
  28. 'Blue Valentine': Hurt People Hurt People (Reviews)
  29. 'True Grit': Some Bully Shot (Reviews)
  30. 'Tron: Legacy': You Look the Same (Reviews)
Announcements
PM Picks

© 1999-2011 PopMatters.com. All rights reserved.
PopMatters.com™ and PopMatters™ are trademarks
of PopMatters Media, Inc. and PopMatters Magazine.

PopMatters is wholly independently owned and operated.