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Sun, 21 Mar 2010 11:00:16 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 en hourly 1 http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/culturesurfing/2010/03/17/player%e2%80%99s-club-a-thorough-examination-of-the-music-games-of-2009-part-two-of-several/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/culturesurfing/2010/03/17/player%e2%80%99s-club-a-thorough-examination-of-the-music-games-of-2009-part-two-of-several/#comments Wed, 17 Mar 2010 20:06:05 +0000 Garrett Martin http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/culturesurfing/?p=9676 http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/culturesurfing/2010/03/17/player%e2%80%99s-club-a-thorough-examination-of-the-music-games-of-2009-part-two-of-several/feed/ 0 Guitar Hero 5, Band Hero and Guitar Hero: Van Halen http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/culturesurfing/2010/03/08/players-club-god-of-war-iii-review/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/culturesurfing/2010/03/08/players-club-god-of-war-iii-review/#comments Mon, 08 Mar 2010 17:00:42 +0000 Garrett Martin http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/culturesurfing/?p=9480 http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/culturesurfing/2010/03/08/players-club-god-of-war-iii-review/feed/ 0 God of War III Rated M for Mature Released March 16 2010 PlayStation 3 Published by Sony WHAT IT IS: God of War III presents the continuing adventures of the world’s most unlikable video game character. There’s no question that Kratos, the “Ghost of Sparta”, is one of the hugest, shiniest dickheads in the history of fake history. [...] http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/culturesurfing/2010/01/26/players-club-a-thorough-examination-of-the-music-games-of-2009-part-one-of-many/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/culturesurfing/2010/01/26/players-club-a-thorough-examination-of-the-music-games-of-2009-part-one-of-many/#comments Tue, 26 Jan 2010 20:05:52 +0000 Garrett Martin http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/culturesurfing/?p=8776 http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/culturesurfing/2010/01/26/players-club-a-thorough-examination-of-the-music-games-of-2009-part-one-of-many/feed/ 0 First up: Guitar Hero: Metallica and Guitar Hero: Smash Hits. http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/culturesurfing/2010/01/19/georgia-tech-and-scad-host-art-history-of-games-conference/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/culturesurfing/2010/01/19/georgia-tech-and-scad-host-art-history-of-games-conference/#comments Wed, 20 Jan 2010 01:34:30 +0000 Wyatt Williams http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/culturesurfing/?p=8631 http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/culturesurfing/2010/01/19/georgia-tech-and-scad-host-art-history-of-games-conference/feed/ 0 Topics to be explored include "A Short History of Video Game Aesthetics," "Games as fine art,” and “Players are Artists, too" http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/culturesurfing/2009/11/30/freeside-atlanta-makes-space-for-local-hackers/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/culturesurfing/2009/11/30/freeside-atlanta-makes-space-for-local-hackers/#comments Mon, 30 Nov 2009 20:16:33 +0000 Wyatt Williams http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/culturesurfing/?p=7453 http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/culturesurfing/2009/11/30/freeside-atlanta-makes-space-for-local-hackers/feed/ 0 The hacker facility doesn't look that different from a punk warehouse, but instead of political zines, their common library is filled with volumes on circuit analysis http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/culturesurfing/2009/11/18/players-club-video-game-releases-for-the-week-of-nov-16/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/culturesurfing/2009/11/18/players-club-video-game-releases-for-the-week-of-nov-16/#comments Wed, 18 Nov 2009 21:26:02 +0000 Garrett Martin http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/culturesurfing/?p=7253 http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/culturesurfing/2009/11/18/players-club-video-game-releases-for-the-week-of-nov-16/feed/ 0 Left 4 Dead, Assasin's Creed II, LIttleBigPlanet, LEGO Indiana Jones, Resident Evil: The Darkside Chronicles and more Tony Hawk games. http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/culturesurfing/2009/11/09/players-club-video-game-releases-for-the-week-of-nov-9/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/culturesurfing/2009/11/09/players-club-video-game-releases-for-the-week-of-nov-9/#comments Mon, 09 Nov 2009 16:34:12 +0000 Garrett Martin http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/culturesurfing/?p=7014 http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/culturesurfing/2009/11/09/players-club-video-game-releases-for-the-week-of-nov-9/feed/ 2 If you believe the internet (and Lord knows you should) Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 will be the greatest and best selling game of all time. http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/culturesurfing/2009/10/28/players-club-video-game-releases-for-the-week-of-oct-26/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/culturesurfing/2009/10/28/players-club-video-game-releases-for-the-week-of-oct-26/#comments Wed, 28 Oct 2009 19:07:21 +0000 Garrett Martin http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/culturesurfing/?p=6546 http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/culturesurfing/2009/10/28/players-club-video-game-releases-for-the-week-of-oct-26/feed/ 1 This week's new video games are a good mix of the old and new. Oh, wait, no they're not. http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/culturesurfing/2009/10/19/player%e2%80%99s-club-video-game-releases-for-the-week-of-oct-19/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/culturesurfing/2009/10/19/player%e2%80%99s-club-video-game-releases-for-the-week-of-oct-19/#comments Mon, 19 Oct 2009 19:38:25 +0000 Garrett Martin http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/culturesurfing/?p=6301 http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/culturesurfing/2009/10/19/player%e2%80%99s-club-video-game-releases-for-the-week-of-oct-19/feed/ 0 After years of bashfully batting its eyes at irrelevence, the video game industry has finally quit playing hard to get and gone all the way with obsolescence. Almost every single new release this week is either an adaptation of a movie, cartoon, or TV series, or a shameless rip-off of the Imagine series’ already shameless [...] http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/culturesurfing/2009/10/12/player%e2%80%99s-club-video-game-releases-for-the-week-of-oct-12/ http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/culturesurfing/2009/10/12/player%e2%80%99s-club-video-game-releases-for-the-week-of-oct-12/#comments Mon, 12 Oct 2009 20:55:21 +0000 Garrett Martin http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/culturesurfing/?p=6122 http://blogs.creativeloafing.com/culturesurfing/2009/10/12/player%e2%80%99s-club-video-game-releases-for-the-week-of-oct-12/feed/ 0 This week belongs to Uncharted 2: Among Thieves