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- How Pearl Jam Saved ‘SNL’
- In Praise of ‘Weird Al’ Yankovic
- Just call him Colbert the brave
- Meat Loaf’s latest is ridiculously stale
- Revisionist Radiohead: A Review of ‘In Rainbows’
- The art of ‘Okami’ is a bold stroke for the future
- Why Rolling Stone Still Matters
- Defending the Wii: Sport Is Not a Competition
- Portfolio: Hard Korr Gamer – The archive
- April 2006
- Another game law shot down
- EA’s very gradual innovation
- How not to do downloads
- In praise of blowing &*@% up
- Poor, poor Psychonauts
- PS3 Deathwatch: The Prelude
- PS3′s pricing problem
- The micropayments backlash
- Where’s the next Dragon’s Lair?
- Why “early adopters should pay more” doesn’t work
- Why do movies based on games suck? Ask Roger Ebert
- August 2006
- A million little game developers … blessed by Microsoft?
- Ambiguously secure Xbox Live payments
- Hating on Madden
- Sega Collection: The online pricing problem in full effect
- Stupid, stupid game laws, cont’d
- Taxpayers billed $500K for politicians’ grandstanding
- The best in video game cursing
- The Sony Deathwatch has officially begun
- December 2005
- Another view on games as art
- Game magazines as game shills
- Haunting Ground: The wrong kind of creepy
- Social gaming: high scores or actual fun?
- Sucks on your assmar! (and by assmar I mean partial backward compatibility)
- The Innovation Problem
- The Jar Jar problem
- The Robert Thompson problem
- Video games as art, Prelude: Why Roger Ebert is right
- December 2006
- February 2006
- Electroplankton and the DS’s limits
- Growing the gaming audience: Geometry Wars vs. Nintendogs and Brain Training
- How much of a hit is Sony taking on the P$3?
- Immersion means more than losing the health bar
- Sony talks sense on UMD bundles, Blu-Ray pricing
- Sony’s Blu-Ray problem
- Sony’s proprietary pratfall
- The “game” problem
- The used game problem
- Used games cont’d: Time to come clean on past prices
- January 2006
- As goes Psychonauts, so goes Majesco
- Hating on cut scenes
- Journalism with too much of a smile
- Microsoft’s CES stumble
- Microsoft’s online gamble
- More on hardcore vs. mainstream
- Rocky Korr rocks out
- Stop the high-quality-fanzine presses!
- The Jar Jar Problem, cont’d
- The long tail and video games, Part I
- The long tail and video games, Part II
- Turning the mainstream into hardcore gamers
- Video games as art, Part I: The auteur problem
- Video games as art, Part II: Gamers aren’t Michael Chabon
- Video games as art, Part III: Some narratives are more equal than others
- Video games as art, Part IV: Respecting games as games
- July 2006
- June 2006
- March 2006
- “Betting the company on Blu-Ray”
- Betting on Blu-Ray, indeed
- Games’ not-so-infinite choices; or, Kotaku comes around to Korr’s side
- Microsoft still spinning about 360
- My Robocop nightmares; or, Should we shield our kids from violent entertainment?
- Shilling for the entertainment industry
- Sony’s proprietary pratfall, continued
- The auteur problem, re-revisited
- The auteur problem, revisited
- The Jar Jar problem, revisited
- The Revolution that killed GameTap
- Those doomed video game laws
- Why ping pong explains what’s wrong with the video game industry
- May 2006
- How little we know about who’s really playing games
- Nintendo takes the lead
- Sony’s first big reveal: Wii-ish controller
- Sony’s real challenge
- Sony’s second big reveal: $500/$600 price
- The future of shooters — and game graphics
- The story settles
- Where are the Sub Pops, Kill Rock Stars, Saddle Creeks of video games?
- November 2005
- November 2006
- October 2006
- September 2006
- July 2007
- June 2007
- May 2007
- April 2007
- March 2007
- February 2007
- January 2007
- Wario’s Wii ripoff
- Nintendo is more than good enough — it’s different
- Play it loud when everyone’s asleep
- How Zelda keeps video games inferior to movies and books
- Correction: NO CLUE how many games are sold
- Does anyone really know how many games are sold?
- 800,000-failure, 1M-smash hit?
- High-def DVD combos don’t solve anything
- Why I’m not in love with Zelda: Twilight Princess
- April 2006
- Some Call It a Game
- Portfolio: Award-Winners
