In his 2007 essay, game designer Erick Wujcik said "I think [Ogre's] success really boils down to four essentials: Ogre is fast,... asymmetrical,... open-ended,... [and] is a teaching tool.
By turning conservative personalities into zombies, and thus making it not only acceptable but also acceptably exciting to shoot them, "the game scripts its violence into morally excusable self-defense," as Peter Freeman wrote recently in a thought-provoking essay on games in Crisis, the Roman Catholic journal.
Mr. Harwell started each season by reciting lines from the Song of Solomon, and in 1955, he composed an essay, "The Game for All America," to celebrate baseball.
In the essay "The Game for All America," Harwell once wrote that baseball was many things, including "Humor, holding its sides when an errant puppy eludes two groundskeepers and the fastest outfielder".
Ms. Abramson voiced her opinion of "What It Takes" in an essay about "Game Change," by John Heilemann and Mark Halperin, a No. 1 best seller on the 2008 campaign that was widely considered a compulsive read but that was also "longer on vignettes and backstage gossip than on analysis," as Jacob Heilbrunn wrote in the Times Book Review.
Calling the essay "potentially game changing", James wrote: "While she recognizes how much she was pandering to the white man, we writers of colour spend way too much time pandering to the white woman … astringent, observed, clipped, wallowing in its own middle-style prose and private ennui, porn for certain publications".
Last June, Lili Loofbourow wrote a great essay about "Game of Thrones" that contained the unforgettable phrase "sexual scavengers".
Angel's conflict with his mother is a familiar situation to Henry Jenkins, the co-editor of a book of scholarly essays on computer games, "From Barbie to Mortal Kombat".
A time where we focus our eyes and spotlights and applause on the students who successfully pushed through the exams, the essays, the sports games, the drama, to walk across a stage and receive that diploma.
The HD remake of Resi 4 will probably kick-start a new spate of ponderous best-game-ever essays, but it's a game that I played with a friend, and he went out and bought a Gamecube.
