Media Zen

Linkbuilding

I am currently doing a bunch of updates on the website, and one of those involves making the site more visible on the web. Because of that i am trying to build some links across the web by sharing links with other blogs. Of course i don’t want to link to anything that i dont actually enjoy reading, so the process of linkbuilding is kind of slow. Continue »

Paradise Hotel Fanboys

Paradise Hotel is an often debated television show in Denmark. My claim is that it is in fact just like a video game. It has designed rules, it has a game culture, and it has fanboys! Continue »

Conventions of Survival Horror

Horror games provide the most direct route to create emotional responses in players. They trigger the most basic of human responses to outside stimuli and that might be the reason why they are so popular. Continue »

Playing with Perversion

In games you often do horrible acts like killing, torturing, and hurting others. Also sexual representation abound. So the question is, are games actually about perversions? Continue »

Achievement unlocked

Achievements has become the new big thing in games. When Microsoft first added achievements to their Xbox360 games i found it to be incredibly stupid – however it took about 1 hour before i realized the brilliance of it. It actually made me want to hunt different goals in the game. Continue »

Ethics in game journalism

This last week i have been spending a lot of time watching movies and reading a bunch of film journalism. This type of journalism generally feeds of two types of events. Either it comes in interview format, or it comes in the form of articles written on the basis of… Continue »