Shahryar Rizvi

Category: Games

  • Making rounds: Escape from City 17

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  • Diversity in Far Cry 2

    HOLD UP!!! The name sounds a bit like Qurbani, the animal you sacrifice in Bakra Eid. Are there other contexts for qurbani. And what is the title to the Bollywood film Qurbani referring to?

  • E3 2008 Report

    I just got back from Texas. It’s a wonder that I have time to check out what’s going on this week at E3 with summer classes and all . I’m positive that my next console purchase will be a handheld, so I want to see great games for the handheld consoles and a full-size qwerty […]

  • Is da gaim’s faught innit?

    Oasis Guitarist Links Violent Games to Surge in UK StabbingsI think Oasis’ music , which has helped a generation of pretentious leches get into girls’ pants, is more dangerous to society than video games. How ironic that Rock Band has Oasis songs in it. How deeply does he believe? Will he bite the hand that […]

  • A Mystery of Violence

    Interseting essay on video game violence and it’s effect on real violence. I don’t doubt that many violent video games endores violence as an end to a mean. We have to realise that so many other things endorse and encourage violence. I can remember one guy in a high-school class who professed his love for […]

  • ..and I feel fine

    I’m starting to think that America is becoming oversensitive in terms of terrorism and security again. Apparently Fallout 3 is considered a terrorist tool because al-qaeda appropriated teaser images from the game for a message. Another reason Fallout 3 might threaten patriotic sensibilities is because it suggests that our way of life is not permanent. […]

  • Grand Theft CMON

    The point made above is that there are bigger problems in the world than GTA4, so I will keep this short. GTA 4’s specific target audience is young kids, especially those who may eventually access it despite age limitations on selling Mature rated games. Addressing our misgivings of the series’ narrative involves finding or making […]

  • Native Evil

    To elaborate my opinion of the whole RE5 thing, N’gai Croal has a point. If you are a member of the norm, default race and culture in US or Japan, you probably won’t see the racial imagery of the trailer unless you have actually examined past racial images and depictions of white men against the […]

  • Will Wright can shoot bees at you.

    I totally forgot about Game Developer’s Conference this year. Will Wright speaks again this year with cool facts and stuff. A self-important cynical British guy talks quickly in front an audience. Yahtzee later accuses the audience of looking at his bird. The fact that elements of Bioshock’s plot are critiques of faceless voiceless FPS protagonists […]

  • E3 Report 2007

    I might not be able to catch everything immediately like last year because I have class and work this week. Microsoft Conference Impressions: Xbox 360 is the system I imagine myself owning. My computer is pretty old, so I may not be able to experience most of the PC games covered like the PC Gears […]