Computerized Games

Magazine articles on video and internet based games.

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Macworld August 2003 Peter Cohen	The Game Room: Get Into the Action A look at several different takes on the action genre -- a modern relative of Dungeons and Dragons, a 3-D romp with a bouncing orb, an homage to top-down- scrolling games of yore, and three variations on classic puzzle games. One thing they have in common is some fast and furious play.
Wired August 2003 Chris Baker	Tron Reloaded The sci-fi classic gets a sequel and an upgrade. The inside of your computer will never be the same.
Reason July 2003 Jesse Walker	Birth of a Medium Video games, art, and moral panic: wild rhetoric and ill-conceived laws interfere not just with gamers' fun but with an art form in its infancy.
Macworld July 2003 Peter Cohen	The Game Room: Save the Drama At a time when many games seem to be looking for a darker edge, with angst-ridden heroes confronting heavy moral dilemmas, it's refreshing to sit down in front of a game that doesn't come with a lot of emotional baggage. Here are some more lighthearted new games for the Mac.
Knowledge@Wharton June 18, 2003	Joyriding with the Masters of Doom: A Tale of Two Video Game Programmers It bothers David Kushner that two of the most influential figures in what is now a $10.8 billion segment of the entertainment industry are all but unknown to mainstream America. And so he has written Masters of Doom: How Two Guys Created an Empire and Transformed Pop Culture.
Macworld June 2003 Peter Cohen	The Game Room Mac games: Marble Blast... MacMAME is the Mac version of a cross-platform, open-source collaboration called Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator... Payback... Pocket Tanks... etc.
Macworld June 2003 Peter Cohen	X-Plane 6.5 Simulator lets you fly -- courtesy of your desktop
Macworld May 2003 Peter Cohen	The Game Room: On Track and Online Reviews of Nascar Racing 2002 Season, Spaceward Ho 5, DeepTrouble, Super Collapse II, and Helix, all for the Mac.
Wired May 2003 David Kushner	Prepare to Meet Thy Doom John Carmack's game engines set the standard for PC graphics - and legions of gamers and the industry love him for it. Now he's brought the world to the brink of Doom III.
Macworld April 2003 Peter Cohen	Mac Gamers, Start Your Engines Open-wheel racing has finally come to the Mac, thanks to a Formula One simulator that's a blast to play even though it's a few years behind the times... Heroes of Might and Magic IV is an interesting, albeit flawed, addition to the series... Dora the Explorer: Backpack Adventure... etc.
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