Mind Control Division

Media intelligence through investigation and experimentation

The Mind Control Division is the intelligence arm of Blaine Kyllo's Solo Corps. This department conducts investigations and experiments into media culture, which includes, but is not limited to, writing on television, video games, and books.

I’m currently writing on video games ("Trigger Happy" in the Georgia Straight and "Joystuck" in FFWD Weekly), consumer technology ("Techno Logic" in the Georgia Straight), and television ("Remote View" appears at CinemaSpy.ca).

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Beware creepy little girls in BioShock 2 · 18 February 2010, 08:53

In today’s Georgia Straight is my feature review of BioShock 2. Rapture is a great place to return to.

The multiplayer component of the game, developed by London, Ontario’s Digital Extremes, is significant because it continues telling the story.

There’s something about the young girls in BioShock. With yellow, glowing eyes and weirdly distorted voices, they are creepier and more disturbing than any monster. The same girl with normal eyes and a sweet demeanour, however, brings out the parent in all of us. BioShock’s Little Sisters can exhibit both qualities, and they’re a big reason the two games in the franchise have been so successful.

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