Published on March 31, 2013 by Ana Todor

Tomb Raider: The New Feminist Dream?

Why did Tomb Raider had to be reinvented? What was wrong with the generously breasted, fully lipped flawless female pistol wielder that used to territorial piss on ancient tombs with lame British jokes? If you look back in the press, it seems as if the Indiana Jones femme fatale concept has suddenly become exhausted, at least from the game publisher’s point of view. Does this mean that games are growing up, or is this the direct result of the fact that the demographics of players are changing, that women are slowly taking their rightful place at the keyboard and gamepad? Read more…

Published on March 11, 2013 by Ana Todor

The Plan Microreview

What if you could have the ideal Kafkaesque experience, without losing your humanity? What if YOU, instead of Gregor Samsa, “awake one morning from uneasy dreams and find yourself transformed in your bed into a gigantic insect”? “The Plan” is a nifty 15-minute experience that gives you exactly this literary, yet visceral, opportunity. Read more…

Published on February 27, 2013 by Ana Todor

The Sims 3 Review

In the beginning, God created the Heavens and the Earth. And God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light. God saw that the light was good, and He separated the light from the darkness. God called the light “day,” and the darkness he called it “night.” By the sixth day, we are told that God also created man. And then, in the seventh day, he decided to rest, content of what He had created. Bearing Schopenhauer in mind, I prefer to believe we are still in the seventh day, contemplating a God that has hidden himself from his creation, leaving this world for a less complex one: in his free time, God… is playing The Sims. Read more…

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Published on February 6, 2013 by Ana Todor

Syntax highlighting in Zendesk

There has been a whole lot of talk on how to implement code syntax highlighting into Zendesk, both into the forums frontend and the ticket system. While the intergration of Markdown into the backend now offers a decent solution for tickets, the same cannot be said of the frontend forums section. As suggested in this angry post, the only method in which you can get away with it for now is by using PasteBin or Github. This is of course not a viable solution for professionals who boast to offer custom solutions and honestly, I’m not a big fan of it as an individual either. Read more…

Published on January 25, 2013 by Ana Todor

The Misadventures of P.B. Winterbottom Review

It is said that love goes through the stomach. Sunny chicken drumsticks, fine sauces, barmy sweets, they all sacrifice themselves for the feeling of love to purely prevail. For P. B. Winterbottom, who is a sort of ironic Daniel Day-Lewis clone (just imagine him playing the butcher in Gangs of New York), the ode to food is even more important, because his whole life goes through the above-mentioned stomach. Read more…

Published on January 24, 2013 by Ana Todor

Dragon Age: Origins Review

The currency of war is life. We pay the cost and hope in the end it was worth it.

The currency of war is life. But, at the same time, it’s the war that determines the damned souls it devours to be aware of the real value of life, in those unique circumstances they experience. War, more than any other event, generates the most surprising of stories, as if all characters involved in the bloodshed would feel the Apocalypse in the air and would rush into frantically living their last moments. Dragon Age: Origins is a game about war. Although the narrative of the game flows in a very Tolkeinesque manner, the seriousness of the confrontations brings to front not the war between races, but, as I underlined above, a colorful bunch of characters, with distinct lives and origins. Read more…