Metal Gear Solid, Resident Evil, Super Smash Brothers, World of WarCraft
Gamer Masterpiece Theater
Like any new form of artistic expression, video games have faced an uphill battle in gaining legitimacy as a story-telling medium. (This may have something to do with the fact most of the best selling games out there have more freakin’ sweet guns than emotionally compelling characters.)
Well, all of that’s about to change. Below is a video-game-themed play I’ve written, a potent treatise on the woeful human condition. Savvy gamers will notice each line of the play is quoted directly from a video game.
Enough of the past already! Once you’ve had your share of all those “best of 2008” lists, come along with GotGame as we look over the top PC games of 2009 according to hype, which has been a constant factor in how all games nowadays are perceived by the fans. Just listen to 
If you don’t know already, Diablo 3 is playable at BlizzCon this year. Everyone is probably dying to know about the new classes. Earlier this season, the Witch Doctor and Barbarian were announced as new classes. At BlizzCon, they also announced a third class, the Wizard. We’ll cover that more in a later article. I, however, had the pleasure of trying out the Witch Doctor first hand. Now you might be wondering, “Allen, you’re a tough, burly man, why didn’t you play the Barbarian?” Well, although that statement may be true, I am not that interested into just running into things and hitting really hard. Where’s the fun in that? I wanted to try the elegant class of Witch Doctor. I would have taken some sweet videos or taken some pictures, but Blizzard wouldn’t allow any of that.
Hooray! Blizzard finally announced a new release! And by “new,” I mean “another installment in an 11-year-old franchise.” It’s a relative newcomer compared to the gaming mammoth’s Games That End In -Arcraft series, but another Gothic dungeon crawler with the same name as the first two is hardly groundbreaking, despite the ravenous Diablo fans that have been marking days off their calendar since the original installation. Ironically, unless you count the “-arcraft” games as separate franchises, wacky old Diablo’s still the newest goose in Blizzard’s golden-egg-laying flock.
