{"id":1676,"date":"2008-10-09T12:02:16","date_gmt":"2008-10-09T10:02:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/?p=1676"},"modified":"2008-10-09T12:02:16","modified_gmt":"2008-10-09T10:02:16","slug":"watch-a-game-review-read-a-game-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/?p=1676","title":{"rendered":"Watch a game review, read a game review"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In 2005 I wrote this short article called <a href=\"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/new-ideas\/is-writing-dead.html\">Is Writing Dead?<\/a>.  In this post I predicted that writing as we know it was going to fade away and that writers were going to evolve into formats that integrates all the possibilities of digital life.  This morning my son Tom and I were watching game reviewer Ben Croshaw known as Yahtzee &#8220;post&#8221; or &#8220;video&#8221; or whatever his amazing reviews can be called and I remembered that article.  Watch this review of Star Wars; the Forced Unleashed by Yahtzee and tell me if it\u00b4s not much more entertaining to &#8220;watch&#8221; a review than to read <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Star_Wars:_The_Force_Unleashed\">this review on the Wikipedia<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><embed src=\"http:\/\/static.escapistmagazine.com\/media\/global\/movies\/player\/FlowPlayerDark.2.2.4-tm.swf?config=%7Bembedded%3Atrue%2CplayList%3A%5B+%7B+%27url%27%3A251%2C%27linkUrl%27%3A%27http%3A%2F%2Fwww.escapistmagazine.com%2Fvideos%2Fview%2Fzero-punctuation%2F251-Star-Wars-The-Force-Unleashed%27%2C%27linkWindow%27%3A%27_top%27%2C%27name%27%3A%27Star%2BWars%253A%2BThe%2BForce%2BUnleashed%27+%7D+%5D%2CsplashImageFile%3A%27http%3A%2F%2Fwww.escapistmagazine.com%2Fglobal%2Fcastfire%2Fsplash%2F251.jpg%27%2CshowVolumeSlider%3Atrue%2Cpid%3A%27html_test%27%2CinitialScale%3A%27fit%27%2Cloop%3Afalse%2CautoPlay%3Afalse%2CautoBuffering%3Afalse%2CusePlayOverlay%3Afalse%2CautoRewind%3Atrue%2CbufferLength%3A15%2CmenuItems%3A%5Bfalse%2Cfalse%2Cfalse%2Cfalse%2Ctrue%2Ctrue%5D%7D\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" quality=\"high\" bgcolor=\"#333333\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" pluginspage=\"http:\/\/www.adobe.com\/go\/getflashplayer\" height=\"328\" width=\"400\" wmode=\"opaque\"><\/embed><\/p>\n<div id=\"mainphotoarea\"><\/div><div class=\"theme-buttons\"><div class=\"fb-like\" data-href=\"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/?p=1676\" data-send=\"false\" data-layout=\"box_count\" data-width=\"71\" data-show-faces=\"false\" data-font=\"arial\" data-locale=\"en_US\"><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 2005 I wrote this short article called Is Writing Dead?. In this post I predicted that writing as we know it was going to fade away and that writers were going to evolve into formats that integrates all the possibilities of digital life. This morning my son Tom and I were watching game reviewer [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1676"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1676"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1676\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.martinvarsavsky.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}