I love Team Bondi�s and Rockstar�s L.A. Noire. I feel it is an awesome game and a leap forward in emotive storytelling. I also liked the fact that the game was a bait and switch. People expected another GTA style game and they were giving a...

This is not meant to be inflammatory in any way, but rather incite discussion. I�ve lived through both the nineties and the 2000s. I�ve seen the rise of CGI and 3D graphics for games. I�ve lived through the golden era of sci fi pc games an...

This place is hell. A vast labyrinth of strange near asymmetrical buildings and outlandish perspective and physics bending architectural anomalies. Places that twist the logic between interior and exterior space. Children wander through th...

In all forms of entertainment, the aspect of selling commercial art is generally considered a part of the entertainment business. This business as people understand it, has been closing studios, merging properties, removing dedicated serve...

This episode deals with the inherent problem with Blogging about games and the problems within my own post. Games are an interesting culture to speak about. Even in its simplest form, it engenders discussion and argument which websites suc...

This is the third of my We Should Expect Better series. Now I want to get this out of the way immediately. There is nothing wrong with either music OR sports games. They are designed to do exactly what they do, and I perfectly respect thei...

I�ve decided to continue from my last post with a whole series of posts talking about aspects of video games. We as humans tend to have a love for grouping and classifying things. What can we say, we love taxonomy. We primarily classify ga...

We live in the age of the story. Mankind, since the dawn of human civilisation, has been host to an ever evolving and changing form of make believe, the narrative. Over hundreds of thousands of years we have refined and perfected our story ...

During the summer I experienced a 'Burnout', a point some people get to involving games. Due to the fact that games are interactive longform media, the constant exposure tends to drive people away for periods of time. They attempt to limit ...

The game industry is strange and mythical place. Gamers treat the industry like it�s the fountain of youth or Shangri-la, a mysterious, hidden place that holds boundless secrets and treasures (though some of these treasures turns out to be ...

With the advent of online functions on game systems, we as gamers have seen a distinct change in the priorities of game design. This presents new problems on the concept of games and new understandings about gamers in general. As the proli...

the following is just a sample of prose writing I did about 4 years ago. Just wanted to share it. Just me doing an experiment in weird lyrical, pseudo biblical writing. White Shadow on the Wall Phillip Bastien For long in the days of the ...

A lot of people have mixed reactions to Vin Diesel. Some people despise him, others find him boring, others like him and more have at least a small amount of respect for his open geekitude. Me? I never really minded him. I have... problem...

National Institute of Media and the Family started to blast Madworld today, stating it sullied and corrupted a once family friendly console. I got fed up and sent them this letter. They probably wont responnd but I don't care, I got my poi...

This is for anyone who has or hasn't read my forgotten games post last weekend. http://www.destructoid.com/blogs/Bugsport/shadows-of-memories-games-forgotten-by-almost-everyone-124125.phtml I plan to do another. One just as long, even lon...

The barometer of success in the gaming (what you are about to read can also be applied to movies, comics, music and books) is much like a scientific hypothesis. In order to understand the premise of the article the most basic truths must be...

after years of scribbling in notebooks and fiddling with microsoft word, I am finally going to do it. I'm writing a book. It's a horror novel called 'The Dark Eyes of Summer'. It deals with an Environmental Impact Assessor (he writes up r...

I've come and gone on the topic of RPGs in the past. More often than nought, i found myself just walking away from an RPG at the right moment when it was deemed crucial to keep playing by fans (this is deemed the "it gets better" argument m...

I'm a man of many opinions. And often I can go to extremes on certain subjects. And now I have found a problem I must call out against. that problem is negativity. A problem with modern society and media is there is an incessant obsession ...

Being my first post on destructoid, I wish to make a serious issue known to the general gaming population. This problem is the overglut of final fantasy games. We gamers, have previously been enthralled with the cinematic excellence that of...