The Escapist: “Mass Effect Saves Humanity - for What?”
Heidegger is arguably the most influential philosopher of the 20th century; he is inarguably the most controversial. His thinking on what it means to be human in a technologically advanced world still informs debates on genetics, medicine and artificial intelligence today. He was also a Nazi. You just have to deal with this sort of thing in contemporary philosophy.
There’s a fantastic article in the latest Escapist called “Fighting with Monsters”, about the portrayal of journalism in the game Beyond Good and Evil
Games Without Frontiers: Going Gunning With My Imaginary Friends
Videogames, in effect, are beyond Turing. As Simon Bart, a sociologist who studies videogames at Concordia University in Montreal, put it in a recent paper: “The solo game is posthumanistically social.” It’s about the pleasures of hanging out with machines even when you’re aware they’re merely machines.
Very interesting Wired News post: Suicide Bombing Makes Sick Sense in ‘Halo 3′