Recent content by Ferrous Buller

So, when you said "Lucasarts games," you really just meant Star Wars, right? Because I don't really think we have to worry about Disney letting that license lie fallow. I mean, you took all the `80s games off the table as being too old (never mind that Ballblazer already got a PS1 remake...

Shameless self-promotion: the post which broke my blog nigh two years ago [http://www.1up.com/do/blogEntry?bId=7162783&publicUserId=5577023]! [Insert "going out with a bang" pun here]

The reasons why things are the way they are aren't really in question. It's whether or not they should change - and if so, in what ways - which are the interesting questions...

There's no question that (non-casual) videogaming remains an overwhelmingly male-dominated entertainment medium, on both the producer and consumer side of things. As such, most games are made to appeal to traditional male tastes; in particular, your average game is some variant on a male power...

It's been a while since I took a marketing class, but IIRC my professor used to say there are two kinds of non-essential goods in the world: the things people already want and the things sellers want to make people want. The former sell themselves; the latter are what you need advertising for...

[Disclaimer: I never finished RE2 and I haven't had a chance to play Ada's new missions in the PS2 version of RE4. So my opinion of her is largely based on her scenes in the GC version of RE4.] One of the things I love about Ada in RE4 is that while she may look like a stereotypical sex...