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The 11 craziest video game feats ever captured on video These 11 videos show people taking ordinary video games and making them truly extraordinary.
Video games: how much do we love them? Enough to inspire us to devote a good chunk of our lives to them, at the very least. The incredible world of electronic gaming has something for everybody, from the base casual to the most hardcore multi-monitor Eve Online sock-pooper. We’re going to be talking about the upper echelon of gamers in this piece: the men and women who don’t stop at mere enjoyment and instead fight for utter mastery. These are people who squeeze every last byte out of their games, twisting them under their mental strength until they crack. These 11 videos show people taking ordinary video games and making them truly extraordinary.…
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‘Battlefield 1’ accused of sexism and being too fun The culture critics are at it again, tearing down all we hold dear.
War is hell. And so is hearing social justice warriors air their grievances on the internet. So of course with the release of a hugely popular game like DICE’s World War 1 epic, Battlefield 1, we’re sure to get some hot takes that make you want to go off the grid for good. There was a long, tiresome debate during the development of the game because it would not include women soldiers in multiplayer. Sure you could play as an Arab women in single player, but that’s just tokenism. Who knew a game about a European land war in the early twentieth century wouldn’t be a pillar of diversity? DICE…
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Why is World War I too hot to touch for gaming? Hyper violent video games based on real wars are nothing new. But Battlefield 1 is creating a storm.
The new trailer for Battlefield 1 (the counterintuitive sequel to Battlefield 4) was released this week to overwhelmingly positive reviews. It was so well liked, in fact, that it garnered the distinction of being the most popular trailer in YouTube history. Watch this video on YouTube But while players were stoked for a game set in World War 1, a setting rarely touched by the genre, culture critics in the media and on Twitter found it in poor taste. After decades of ultra-violent video games depicting all sorts of travesties, apparently WW1 is the line in the sand for some critics. Guardian writer Alex Hern asks if it’s wrong to set a…
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Battlefield 3 C4 trolling Exquisite supercut of reactions from people who take games way too seriously.
When you attack your own team mates you have almost twice as many targets – twice as much fun. Watch this video on YouTube