People play video games; people like sex. It’s a confluence of interests that’s alternatively skeeved out or titillated followers of the medium for decades, dating back to consensual fun times on old MUDs and message boards on the one hand, to the cavalcade of offensive stereotypes, actions, and ideas embedded in the…
Steve Bannon’s past careers continue to be the gift that keeps on giving; we’ve previously reported on the top presidential adviser and Darth Vader fanboy’s attempts to break into the world of rap musicals and heavy-handed science fiction. Now, Boing Boing has dug up a Wired article from last year, revealing that one…
It took a single day for David Brevik, Diablo’s foremost creator, to realize he was wrong about the game that would turn out to be his studio’s big break. As it was originally conceived, players marched their warriors through the game’s dungeons one step at a time, taking turns with the creatures around them to move…
When Chelsea Monroe-Cassel finished reading A Game Of Thrones, she was so inspired by Sansa Stark’s love of lemon cakes, she came up with a recipe of her own. What she baked up was more than delicious; it was intellectually stimulating. Monroe-Cassel and her friend, Sariann Lehrer, soon began tackling other dishes…
It’s easy to dismiss the plot of World Of Warcraft: Legion as evidence that Blizzard has run out of ideas. Its sixth expansion is devoted to the fight against the Burning Legion, the same army of world-conquering demons that was the primary antagonist of the game’s first expansion, The Burning Crusade. But Blizzard…
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It doesn’t seem like anyone was happy with Warcraft, one of this summer’s many box office disappointments that took the immersive fantasy world of Azeroth and added the even larger fantasy that such a misbegotten movie would be a blockbuster franchise starter. But, as with other gargantuan misfires like Kingdom Of…
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Director Duncan Jones’ Warcraft was mildly received by critics and audiences (except for China) who found spectacle in the film but some problems with the story. And while it has its share of supporters and fans, including a devout Jamie Lee Curtis, and is technically the highest grossing video game adaptation of all…
Nerdcore artist Phill Harmonix and producer MegaRan have come together to create what might be the ultimate geek-hop project, WuCraft. The seven-song mixtape has Harmonix rhyming about things like The Horde and Pandarens and how much it sucks when people sit over your corpse and re-kill you every time you try to bring…
It’s hard to remember, but there was a time when the name “Leeroy Jenkins” didn’t elicit knowing nods and sage murmurs among every living human on the planet. But it’s true: It was 13 years ago today that an impetuous World Of Warcraft player was caught on camera bellowing his name, storming into battle, and getting…
It’s hard out there for an Orgrim. Or at least, the new international trailer for Warcraft suggests it’s tough trying to balance dicey new alliances against the orc inclination to go all bloodlust-y on anyone who comes within a hundred-yard radius. This latest promotional clip for the upcoming action-adventure movie…
Universal and Legendary just released a third preview for their upcoming cinematic adaptation of the World Of Warcraft. While the initial trailer and subsequent TV spot did an admirable job of showing that the film is holding tight to the visual aesthetics of its roleplaying-game source material, this new spot…
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Special Topics In Gameology explores a specific corner of the gaming world in a miniseries of articles. The current theme is commerce, in which we examine games’ representation and use of business and trade.
If passing fads like rock and roll or baseball can have halls of fame, then why have video games been ignored by the hall of fame community? Well, the answer to that question doesn’t matter, because The Strong Museum in Rochester, New York—home of the National Toy Hall Of Fame—has now established the World Video Game…
In Let’s Playlist, the Gameological staff assembles a themed lineup of video game music and packages it in a YouTube playlist. But we’re just providing the start. It’s up to you to nominate your own candidates and fill out the list (with a YouTube link if you can find it, please). We’ll choose our favorite…
Every December, instead of searching for a group consensus, Gameological looks back at the year in games through individual perspectives. These are the staffers’ personal takes on a few games that have stuck in their minds for whatever reason—big or small—and does not represent any sort of institutional expression.…
Welcome back to AVQ&A (Gameological edition), where we throw out a question for discussion among the staff and readers. Consider this a prompt to compare notes on your interface with pop culture, to reveal your embarrassing tastes and experiences, and to ponder how our diverse lives all led us to convene here…
Keyboard Geniuses is our weekly glance at a few intriguing, witty, or otherwise notable posts from the Gameological discussion threads. Comments have been excerpted and edited here for grammar, length, and/or clarity. You can follow the links to see the full threads.
