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I bring my writing goggles to the gaming experience, because I see gaming as part of the Odyssey. I want to understand its attraction, and whether it bubbled up from the guts of our basic need for story-telling. I want to understand it as a narrative medium, and how it feeds into our daily lives.
Life's the biggest adventure we'll ever have, and I reckon we make sense of the journey through telling our stories. We've done it for centuries: around campfires, at kitchen tables, radio, film.
I also want to whip my kids' sorry asses. At gaming.
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If ever you dreamt of a time when you could be the Hero of an Odyssey that required no assistance from the Search Engine Seer or an Informed Offspring, Mini Ninjas will shatter your dreams and break your heart... read now
The Mars Odyssey has been with us for a very long time: since we first imagined space travel and adventures beyond the stars... read now
Star Wars is an Odyssey I will happily travel again and again. Real actors or Lego actors, terrible special effects or cool digital animation, cartoons, fan fic, whatever. I love it in all its incarnations. Lego Star Wars The Complete Saga on 360 was therefore right up my mythic street... read now
This week I left the Magical Isle of Fiction behind to explore the skies beyond the far, far away Land of Gaming... only to find myself in a Time Warp called Radiant, with little or no hope of a real, proper Odyssey... read now
OK, I admit it. I started getting excited about going on this Odyssey long before I arced it up and entered the pint-sized world of Game Dev Story... read now
This is not your archetypal Odyssey. There's no Return to the Homeland after a Great Ordeal; there's no wifey waiting patiently for you at the end of your twenty-year excursion... read now
Dragon Quest Monsters 2 is one of those games that has a history. Not a thousands-of-years-history like the Odyssey, but -- according to the Wiki Seer -- it's the fourth instalment in the Dragon Quest games... read now
Rock of Ages is a fun Odyssey, as far as tower defense games go. It's one for history boffins -- as long as you don't mind balancing out your erudite and knowledgeable backlog of history and myth with a few solid displays of neanderthal testosterone. And the fact that you're essentially a boulder... read now
Fable II is set in the land of Albion, where Heroes are the stuff of legend. So when you embark on this Odyssey you'd better be prepared for a thorough drenching in mythical archetypes and motifs: maps, keys, armour and weaponry, skills, spells, you name it... read now
Yes, just imagine: you are a fashion store manager in a huge new mall. You have a head for business, and an eye for style. It's your job to make more money, spot trends, please more customers, sell sell sell... read now
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