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...games new ways to tell stories. So in 1997 he joined an upstart game company in Seattle called Valve; Laidlaw had heard that he and the founder, Gabe Newell, might be thinking along the same lines. "We were going to take the idea of storytelling over to a straightforward first-person shooter [game] and see how far we could get with that," says Laidlaw. They got pretty far. The game they created was called Half-Life, and right from the beginning people could see it was a different sort of animal. The first few minutes had no action...
...advertising copywriter. But that was just the beginning. In 1962 she wrote Sex and the Single Girl, which made her a best-selling author, and three years later she was named editor of Cosmopolitan, then a publication for staid ladies. Helen Gurley Brown whomped up some flashy first-person ads about the Cosmopolitan Girl, who could be sexy, savvy, successful, and yet loving and interested in raising a traditional family. The formula clicked: the magazine's circulation went from fewer than 800,000 to nearly 3 million. Like the girl in the ads, Cosmo loves to burble about female athletes...
Just 10 years after Doom, the original first-person shooter, was released, there is very little left of its allure. This unmasks the fact that there was very little to its allure in the first place. Today Doom 3 is on the cutting edge of technical achievement, but it too will fade from our memories and leave nothing behind. If the value of video games continues to reside solely in their increasing graphical realism and not in their increasing conceptual sophistication, then we all may be wandering around in binary dungeons for the rest of our lives...
...Star Wars game: no Jar Jar, no Ewoks and absolutely no smooching, just a bunch of grizzled space commandos kicking Geonosian butt (and several other species of butt) for the greater glory of the Republic. (It all takes place between Episodes II and III.) Game play combines hard-core first-person combat with some brainier tactical-squad-based action. If the past few movies didn?t have enough military edge for you, don?t worry, it?s all right here. (For PlayStation 2 and Xbox...
Civil engineer Pat Galloway wrote a first-person account of her ascent to the summit of her profession [March 7]. Her courage, determination and devotion to duty must be commended, and her account should be read by all women civil engineers to inspire, motivate and encourage them. During my long service as a professor of civil engineering, I have observed many women succeed in the profession at different levels...