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Recently jobless, four ex-employees of formerly Electronic Arts-owned studio Pandemic found they had some extra time on their hands. So they began making an iPhone and iPod Touch game that not-so-subtly pokes fun at their current job situation, and their former boss. Downsized Games went live on March 10 this year after EA closed down Pandemic in 2009. The closure happened a few years after the megapublisher acquired the Mercenaries studio. The startup's first game ...
[In this column, writer Andrew Vanden Bossche examines GTA: Vice City, discussing how abstraction, not realism, makes its gleeful violence simultaneously less disturbing and more effective.] Senseless violence in videogames is fun, but more importantly, it can also be intellectually stimulating and thought provoking. While designers and critics alike cry out for more depth in games, pathos is not the only path to artistic merit. For a medium that's constantly patronized, misunderstood, and derided even ...
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