Tag Archives: psychology

Why Play Video Games?

Episode Three of A Life Well Wasted asks a simple question of several interviewees in the introductory minutes of the show: why game? Ashley is referring, specifically, to video games and I’d like to alter it a bit to reflect the two answers I’d like to give: why video games?
This is actually a pretty difficult [...]

F.E.A.R. 2: Project Origin

What is most astonishing about F.E.A.R. 2: Project Origin is not its poster-child of horror: that Gothic-looking nine-year-old child look is about as familiar to anyone who has seen any of Hollywood’s reinterpretations of certain Japanese Horror flicks. Nor is it astonishing that F.E.A.R. 2 fails, like so many sequels recently, to convey any narrative [...]