We the Players

The Players on 2D

September 22nd, 2008 . by Roo

A conversation on 2D, as discussed by Kangaroo, DoomRater, and Dacapo.

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Interview with WadaHolic

August 1st, 2008 . by Roo

We, the Players is about learning from the people who do more with games than play them. In our first interview of hopefully many more, we talk with esteemed modder and map-maker WadaHolic about Doom, his history of mods, and his take on console gaming.

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Peter Molyneux on the Industry’s Failure

July 9th, 2008 . by Roo
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A few months back, Gamasutra did an interview with Peter Molyneux where he expressed a pretty upset opinion about the whole video game industry:

“Now that’s a huge failure. That’s our failure. For not being really, truly as big as movies. Because we’re not. Because we only sell — what do we sell? Eight million?”

Talk about blunt. But as big as movies?

I do believe that games will eventually be as much a part of daily life as movies, but I don’t think it will happen in the timespan of one generation; I think it will come about only as more, younger kids are raised to play them.

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