Ben Gilman » Gaming http://www.bengilman.com ...blogs about design, branding and doing business. Tue, 29 Jun 2010 17:50:01 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Unfortunate similarities http://www.bengilman.com/2010/04/unfortunate-similarities/ http://www.bengilman.com/2010/04/unfortunate-similarities/#comments Tue, 13 Apr 2010 13:49:07 +0000 Ben Gilman http://www.bengilman.com/?p=471 Yesterday, the Labour Party released their election manifesto for the upcoming General Election – a feel-good illustration of a happy family looking to a brighter, fairer future.

Unfortunately, the videogamer in me can only see the striking similarities with this: art from Bethesda Software’s Fallout 3 – a game about a post-nuclear-apocalyptic world in which the only law is the survival of the fittest/best-armed.

I’m not sure this is the message they’d like us to take away.

Anyway, must dash – got to get hold of a Land Rover defender, lots of baked beans and a geiger counter.

(This is absolutely not a political post by the way – just graphic design-related! If you’re undecided about where to put your vote I strongly suggest you visit Vote For Policies.)

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Turned around in just over two weeks – I must admit to being pleasantly surprised by that – fingers crossed it’ll work when it arrives!

]]> http://www.bengilman.com/2007/11/hurrah/feed/ 0 Circles of red http://www.bengilman.com/2007/11/circles-of-red/ http://www.bengilman.com/2007/11/circles-of-red/#comments Mon, 12 Nov 2007 11:02:05 +0000 Ben Gilman http://bengilman.wordpress.com/2007/11/12/circles-of-red/ Such a great time to be an Xbox 360 owner… my copy of Assassin’s Creed arrives next week, Team Fortress 2 is reigniting my enjoyment of deathmatch type games and Mass Effect is just days away.

Thus, this was not a sight I wanted to see…

Inconvenient doesn’t quite cover it!

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… and the sad end of the community. I’m not sure there’s ever been a game to make such a total disappearance.

Now this would make an awesome Xbox 360 Live Arcade game…someone get to it.

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