The Tragedy of David Cage

So I took a week and a half off. Had some personal stuff going on and things weren't exactly easy but I'm back and ready to recommit to this blog. So what movies are out that I should go see... oh wait that checking account number is looking a bit low... hmmm... I'll stay in and find something to talk about: Heavy Rain just got a PC port, that's kinda a movie. The game's writer and director David Cage clearly has some affection for cinema. Interaction throughout the games he makes is minimized to timed button presses, light adventure game mechanics (not puzzles mechanics), and dialogue options, and he tells his stories using the same tools cinema uses: dialogue, cinematography, music, action etc...

Tender Loving Care

Unsurprisingly my first love is movies. Like many kids born in the 90’s I grew up watching Indiana Jones, E.T. and Star Wars on VHS over and over, but I also can’t remember a time when I didn’t have access to a PC, and of course PC games. So imagine my surprise and excitement when I learned about the brief fad in PC game development when newly emerging CD technology meant developers could put actual live action video in games. The popular name for this technology and by extension the games that utilize it is FMV or Full Motion Video.