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…some controversy over the previous game in the series, Kane and Lynch 2: Dog Days did not receive much critical examination, and Miguel Penabella at Thumbsticks wants to remedy that, featuring the game’s usage of ludonarrative dissonance to prove a point.

On Gamasutra’s Expert Blogs, E. McNeill ties history and videogames together, arguing that a contradiction in veracity cheapens the experience for both.

(Critical Distance alumna Lana Polansky already came up with a much better term and approach for all this, by the way. -ed)

For All Your Representation Needs

Another cluster of games writing aims…

…– I never got around to playing GTAIV so this one’s all Greek to me.

Linda Holmes at NPR debunks some of the myths surrounding the market for the Scott Pilgrim film. It’s interesting in that it exposes the pervasive level of game-awareness that exists outside the stereotypical ‘gamer’ culture.

Gus Mastrapa looks at how “Game Designers Can Be Cursed By Their Successes” [mirror] for the Joystick Division blog. Mastrapa says,

Somehow the Scorsese principal doesn’t quite translate over to games. In games, it seems that you’re almost forever indebted to your first hit. Only multi-hit

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…Studies journal, Carly A. Kocurek takes us on a look back at 1976’s Death Race, “the United States’ first video gaming moral panic.” In doing so, she asks a pretty pointed question: why do some kinds of violence get a stamp of approval in our consumable media, and not others?

Speaking of the provocative, Danielle Riendeau sat down with artist-activist-provocateur-professional-troll Johannes Grenzfurthner (whom I also had the pleasure of shaking hands with at IndieCade– and playing Massively Multiplayer Thumb War with) regarding 2012’s Arse Elektronika, “the world’s first sex-positive, sex-focused gaming conference.”

But if you’re saying to yourself,…

…introduced her young son to Left 4 Dead 2, and muses on the tough balancing act between engaging one’s children with games and avoiding desensitization.

On Burning North, George “Dramatic Reading” Kokoris argues compellingly that we shouldn’t write off technical advancements when it comes to communicating emotion through games — but the polycount matters far less than evocative animation.

MISANDRY

On The New Statesman, Cara Ellison dismisses all this so-called sexism masculists are crying about in games.

On Nightmare Mode, Alex Law draws up a valuable primer on the male gaze as it applies to games,…