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The Gameological Society Hatin’ on E3

June 5, 2012 — Leave a comment

 

 

If you’re a fan of video games, this week’s proceedings at the Electronic Entertainment Expo (aka E3) should get your attention. Or rather, it seems, the big gaming studios desperately want your attention.

Microsoft must not have much in the way of innovation if they need both the ‘South Park’ creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone, to pimp their new game for the XBox 360, and a flashy number by Usher to keep their audience’s attention.

The H4t3r has no doubt that video game technology will continue to grow, and that innovative and original games will continue to be released; but E3 is not the place to hear about such things.

Thus, we shall hate it. And we shall direct your attentions to those who hate it more thoroughly.

Avid H4t3r readers, meet The Gameological Society.

It’s a fairly new site dedicated to all forms of gaming, with most of their energy devoted to video gaming. It was created as a sister site to The A.V. Club and features several of their writers. This week they’re liveblogging the big presentations at E3 while also providing some scathing commentary on the whole scene in some very well-written columns.

 

So if you love video games, and also have a soul, check it out the liveblog of Nintendo’s presentation at E3 here.

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Joystiq and Jessica Conditt Hatin’ on ‘Journey’

March 2, 2012 — Leave a comment

 

Only critics have been able to play it ahead of its March 13 release date, but the PSN exclusive “Journey” has been creating some big hype in the past couple days.

According to the pictures available online, you control a triangle person as he wanders through the desert. Further research of details would disgrace the nature of blogging.

Thankfully, other venues aren’t so lazy. Joystiq‘s Jordan Mallory wrote up the game yesterday, awarding 5/5 stars. That’s something of a rarity for the site. Read it here.

Mallory emphasizes how awesome the game is as not just a game, but an experience. Great. So what do you do? That’s harder to say. He doesn’t really get into the specifics of what your goal in the game is or how you achieve it, or if it even has such components.

His and the other reviews compiled on Metacritic sing much the same song. “This is beautiful, great, awesome, the best. It’s only 2 hours long, but so worth it!” (direct quote from my brain’s review compiler)

Wait. It’s only 2 hours long? Yep. And $15. Your Playstation hates you.

 

Getting the reviews out early seems to have done its job. Obviously. I’ve devoted all these sentence fragments to a game I desperately want to play immediately, yet know almost nothing about.

So in drops Jessica Conditt and Joystiq again to tell us we can play the game a whole week early…… if you’re PS Plus member.

Goddammit.

 

Here’s another screen cap to show you what the game is like:

Huh?

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