forgotten futurist: Playing Videogames So You Don't Have To

Do you play videogames? Okay, stupid question. These days, who doesn't? Anyway, let me introduce you to the future Ebert of videogame reviews.

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http://forgottenfuturist.blogspot.com/

Check out this blog by a USC School of Cinema and Television student who's one of the first six people at that school to qualify for a Major degree in Interactive Media, specializing in videogame design.

His "forgotten futurist" reviews are witty, wise and well-written and informed by having tested hundreds of games and studying them at USC. In fact, he and a partner just lead a "Videogame Deconstruction Workshop" at USC that was a big hit.

You'll find reviews for almost all the new games of the past two years on this site. Here are just a few highlighted if you want to hop right to one:

• Warhammer 40000
• Mortal Kombat: Shaolin Monks
• Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney
• Gunstar Superheroes
• The Warriors

This reviewer even speaks reasonably fluent Japanese and is going there again this year on a USC scholarship where he'll be studying gender bias in videogames. Last year he visited another hotbed of videogaming, South Korea, observing some new trends there.

This rising star's name is Jonathan Zabel.Okay, we're related, but I'd say this anyway.

Read a few reviews and you'll see what I mean.

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