http://machinemachine.net/stream/feed en-us http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Sweetcron therourke@gmail.com http://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/26639/Opinion_The_99_Best_Free_Games_Of_2009.php Gamasutra is teaming up with game criticism weblog Critical Distance to present Christopher Hyde's round-up of the wealth of excellent games being produced outside the realm of 'AAA' titles in 2009, compiling his take on the best 99 free to download video games released this year. This past year will go down for me personally as the year in which my spending on video games plummeted, due to personal dissatisfaction with the costs in money and time demanded by most of the AAA products out there on the shelves. To that end, I’ve since turned my eyes towards the burgeoning… ]]> Tue, 05 Jan 2010 08:50:00 -0700 http://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/26639/Opinion_The_99_Best_Free_Games_Of_2009.php http://www.stfj.net/art/2009/loselose/ Lose/Lose is a video-game with real life consequences. Each alien in the game is created based on a random file on the players computer. If the player kills the alien, the file it is based on is deleted. If the players ship is destroyed, the application itself is deleted. Although touching aliens will cause the player to lose the game, and killing aliens awards points, the aliens will never actually fire at the player. This calls into question the player's mission, which is never explicitly stated, only hinted at through classic game mechanics. Is the player supposed to be an… ]]> Thu, 01 Oct 2009 05:30:00 -0700 http://www.stfj.net/art/2009/loselose/