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Boxing Games and Fight Night Round 4

Posted by Game Writer Guy | Filed under game writer

Boxing games are back. Fight Night Round 4 has been announced with a ship date – actually, a ship season – of “Summer 2009.” It’s good to see this boxing franchise making another run. There’s also leaked video on Youtube of an EA representative comparing FN4 and FN3, which I also found encouraging. I loved [...]

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Read more | Comments (0) | Feb 25, 2009

Videogame Writing Influences TV?

Posted by Game Writer Guy | Filed under Game Writing

EDGE Thinks Videogame Writing Is Affecting Television Plots Rely on EDGE Magazine to throw out some interesting memes. Today I stumbled upon this thought – that some of the hot new television writing is actually becoming more like videogame writing. And not in a good way: TV is yet another medium struggling to compete against [...]

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Read more | Comments (3) | Feb 1, 2009

The videogame writing smackdown of the month

Posted by Game Writer Guy | Filed under Game Writing

The videogame writing quandry Videogame writing often gets overlooked in the modern videogame development process. There’s no hiding from the raw facts. From EGM’s review of Alone in the Dark for Xbox 360: AITD wants to emulate the presentation of serial television, but neither the writing nor the “performances” compare to even TV’s least-essential shows. [...]

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Read more | Comments (4) | Sep 30, 2008

Game writing: “I want my car back” and other reasons to fight

Posted by Game Writer Guy | Filed under Game Writing

Game writing is sometimes worse off than I think it is. Really. It’s just gawdawful ridiculous, even in some of the most hallowed franchises. I have to give props to EGM (Electronic Gaming Monthly) for their WTFiction!? series. These two-page spreads at the back of the mag are shining examples of how to pinpoint ridiculous [...]

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Read more | Comments (0) | Feb 26, 2008

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