Wikipedia article so NBA 2K18 MT puts it, is "luxury and relaxation."" Never let it be said that there’s nothing to learn from older games. Matthew Armstrong writes as SnakeLinkSonic, and this week he writes about the female perspective as gamers, continuing to reprise an older series of his posts on video games as art. (He notes: "The first version of this post was composed of a wanton surge of exasperation with how women were depicted in games.")GamesIndustry.biz’s Matt Martin reports on research that claims ‘
Marketing influences game revenue three times more than high scores’, and noting that, “the research came to the same conclusion; marketing is more important than game quality.” It's not clear that this causation is completely proved. But if so, that’s a little bit depressing for game critics everywhere, but also for game developers themselves, as the original article notes.One of the newer games criticism blogs around, featured on TWIVGC before, is Nicholas Shurson’s Form8 blog. His piece on Braid ‘
Play for absolution’ made its way to me through two different channels this week. Does that make it doubly worth reading? It's neat nonetheless.Matthew Kaplan has been busy this week, soliciting comments from various game critic types about the Modern Warfare 2 ‘No Russian’ level, and I have a little bit to say myself in part one, alongside a number of humblingly intelligent comments. There’s also a part two, featuring yet more. And if that’s not enough people saying things about ‘
No Russian’ for you, here’s a sort of mini-compilation of Buy NBA Live Coins mainstream critical responses to MW2 in the UK, courtesy of The Guardian newspaper. I mentioned and linked to Tom Chick’s piece on the level in question last week, but here are two more online game-criticism notables with things to say about ‘No Russian’. First, Tom Bissell at More cheap coins in http://www.mtnba2k.com/
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