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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Quantic Dream's Heavy Rain questions what a video game must be · 4 March 2010, 12:39

In today’s edition of the Georgia Straight is my feature review of Quantic Dream’s Heavy Rain, which is a fundamentally different video game experience.

Some are comparing it to film, but I think it’s more like playing a novel.

You’re going to hate Heavy Rain for the first hour you play it. That’s because this video game is different from anything you’ve ever played before, and it takes some getting used to. By the time you’ve finished the game—it’ll take about 10 hours the first time—your opinion may not have changed. Or maybe you’ll love it.

Filed in Trigger-Happy, video-games

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