Via Slash Film is this very cool machinima feature by Mathieu Wechsler that’s entirely comprised of shards from Rock Star Games’ Grand Theft Auto 4. Rock Star has given the film a page on their site, summarizing: The “trashmaster” divides his time between collecting garbage and cleaning up other forms of trash fouling up New York City’s streets: dealers, small-time criminals… When the dancers in his favourite strip club are mysteriously killed, the trashmaster finds himself hot on the trail of a particularly twisted serial killer. Apparently Wechsler spent two years on the project. I have it playing in the […]
by Scott Macaulay on Jan 11, 2011A misapprehension among people who do not play videogames is that the people who play them do so because these games must be fun. I am not saying that videogames are not fun. Sometimes they are and sometimes they are not, and whether one would call a game “fun” often has little bearing on whether or not one keeps playing it. To say that you play games because you are looking for fun is like saying you are hopping online or checking your iPhone because you are seeking information. You are, of course, but it’s way more complicated than that. […]
by Scott Macaulay on Mar 25, 2010