“The spirit of evil is fear, negation the spirit of regression, who threatens us with bondage to the mother and with dissolution and extinction in the unconscious. Fear is a challenge and a task, because only boldness can deliver from fear. And if the risk is not taken, the meaning of...
I have a feeling thatBioshock Infinitewill finally be seen as the apotheosis of the FPS genre, a culminating achievement that signals both apeakand anend. I'm sure other designers will take their shots, and I wish them well, but it's impossible for me to read quotes like the ones above...
When Abbie Heppe submitted herreview ofMetroid: Other M(2 out of 5 stars) for G4, I'm guessing she hit the SEND button and ran for cover. The backlash from fans was immense (459 comments, and counting) and personal ("It sounds like the reviewer had just had an argument with her bo...
Cortical Connections: The claustrum has extensive bidirectional connections with almost all areas of the cerebral cortex. These connections are topographically organized, meaning that different regions of the claustrum connect to specific cortical areas. Subcortical Connections: Besides its cortical connections...
There's no nice way to say this, but it needs to be said: video games, with very few exceptions, are dumb. And they’re not just dumb in the gleeful, winking way that a big Hollywood movie is dumb; they’re dumb in the puerile, excruciatingly serious way