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Last Chance to Watch Charlie Brooker's How Video Games Changed the World

Dealspwn writes: I imagine many of our UK readers are familiar with our favourite satirist, Charlie Brooker with his sardonic take on the world that over the years has seen him rip into the worst of television and broadcasting, and write a few screenplays for satirical pieces like his zombie infested take on Big Brother, Dead Set or the ever-strange tales of Black Mirror.

Turns out he's quite the gamer though, hell he might actually even like them. So much so, he's put together a show entitled How Video Games Changed the World on Channel 4 to pick out the biggest titles from gaming's history, we imagine with an idea of educating newbs.

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JasonBloodbourne3763d ago

i watched this when it aired and still a bit miffed Halo or Halo 2 never made it on the list!!

SniperControl3763d ago

The programme was about pioneering games in their genre, of which the Halo series is not. Rightfully Wolfenstien and Doom were shown as pioneers of the FPS genre.

Muffins12233763d ago

Yea,it may of not been the first in that genre but it certainly changed it and the shooters we know today go off the same backbone of the original halo formula so in a way you can say it pioneered the fps genre,honestly todays shooters are nothing like doom and wolfenstien,they feel like their a different genre.Only thing they have in common is shooting and perspective,thats it.

JasonBloodbourne3763d ago

i seriously think halo 2 bought online gaming to the masses so should be on this list in my opinion.

Hellsvacancy3763d ago

I was already gaming online EVERYDAY with Quake 2, that was way before Halo

Those were the days when I was a PC gamer

Mister_Dawg3763d ago

It pretty much brought fps to the console masses. Even more so than goldeneye ever did.

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SPAM-FRITTER-1233763d ago (Edited 3763d ago )

His number 1 game is Twitter?

Never liked this guy in the first place.

Zepherite3763d ago

I think that was for the viewers that weren't gamers.

If you asked a non gamer how influential games are, I'm certain they would tell you they aren't.

The twitter bit was spelling it out for them: Video games influenced something many people use everyday.

Zepherite3763d ago

I understand what you mean. There were loads of influential games that were missed (Ocarina of Time?).

But then I realised that the title of the show was 'How video games changed the WORLD'. Halo was hugely influential for games themselves but had little impact on the world whereas the games in the show were specifically chosen for there impact on the world we live in. Multiplayer had already arrived with Doom so that social aspect that Halo did so well wasn't new, it just did it better.

SniperControl3763d ago

I loved the show, I started gaming on a Atari 2600 and owned most of the systems.
I especially enjoyed the 8-bit music.
The show bought back so many memories of my gaming days.

bunt-custardly3763d ago

Watched this when aired. Cool program.

toddybad3763d ago

can't stand the man, he's a moron. nothing clever or incisive about what he passes off as comedy. There Are much much better people at doing what he does badly.

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Razer Kishi Ultra Review - Full Size Fun

The friendly folks over at Razer recently sent us their full size Kishi Ultra mobile gaming controller, and this thing didn't disappoint.

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Ranking the Devil May Cry Series

VGChartz's Mark Nielsen: "Upon finally finishing Devil May Cry 5 recently - after it spent several years on my “I’ll play that soon” list - I considered giving it a fittingly-named Late Look article. However, considering that this was indeed the final piece I was missing in the DMC puzzle, I decided to instead take this opportunity to take a look back at the entirety of this genre-defining series and rank the entries. What also made this a particularly tempting notion was that while most high-profile series have developed fairly evenly over time, with a few bumps on the road, the history of Devil May Cry has, at least in my eyes, been an absolute roller coaster, with everything from total disasters to action game gold."

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VersusDMC1h ago

First to last for me...3,4,5,1,2.

Friendlygamer56m ago

3,1,4,5 to me, never played 2. 5 gameplay is amazing but level design was really disappointing to me, just a bunch of plain arenas, the story felt like a worse written rehash of the 3rd and the charater models looked weird ( specially the ladies ). Another problem with 5 was that there was not enough content for 3 charaters so I could never really familiarize with any of them

monkey60210m ago(Edited 9m ago)

2.
Dmc.
4.
5.
1.
3.

God DMC2 was an awful game.
And in case this isn't obvious it goes worst to best

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Unicorn Overlord is a tactical RPG masterpiece

Vanillaware's tactical role-playing game Unicorn Overlord is a beautiful mix of old mechanics and new-age graphics, with over 65 unique recruitable characters and a rich storyline.

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jznrpg26m ago

I have the game and downloaded it going to start it tonight and play it on the Portal.