Helen Babbs meets two video game designers who have taken their inspiration from nature and swapped gun toting for tree planting.For people who don't play computer games – myself included – it's easy to assume all virtual reality has to offer is the dubious opportunity to wield a weapon. Thankfully, that's only part of the picture.
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If you listen to the gamers, Sony has already won the console war with Microsoft. At the Electronic Entertainment Expo—the most important video-game convention of the year—on Monday night, the company announced that its forthcoming product, the PlayStation 4, will sell for four hundred dollars in the U.S., making it a hundred dollars cheaper than Microsoft’s competing Xbox One. It also announced, to thunderous applause, that gamers will continue to be able to loan disc-based games to their friends, and play used games on their consoles.
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There are some who have argued that games just aren’t the right medium for telling stories. Pointing out that scant few games have ever produced literary works comparable with other forms, the suggestion is that gaming just isn’t a suitable place for such narrative experiences. But this argument is entirely flawed, failing to understand that gaming is home to a completely new form of storytelling, and one that is perhaps more potent and powerful than any other.
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