Roger Ebert has once again made a pronouncement that video games cannot ever be art. He is wrong, and his manner of defending his contentious belief is extremely irritating. Essentially, he relies on dismissing his opponent’s definitions of ‘art’, while doggedly using his very narrow criteria to label games as not-art. It’s really perplexing thatContinue reading “A Cheap way to win an argument”
Author Archives: Chris
Super Spy hates light
I’ve been playing a bit of Splinter Cell: Conviction, and I’ve been pleasantly surprised at my level of enjoyment with it. Normally, I have very little patience for stealth games, primarily because I am terrible at them, and since the cause of my terribleness is my impatience, it’s a nice circular arrangement. Splinter Cell hasContinue reading “Super Spy hates light”
A Buildup of Orneryness
I think I need to post my rants to the blog a little bit faster than I am right now. I’ve got a backlog of griping and opinionated shouting to do, and I think I might be losing my ardor for the earliest ideas. In a nutshell, until I have time to fully expand eachContinue reading “A Buildup of Orneryness”
