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Tuesday, 18 January 2011

TRUE OF FALSE ??

A Wii game based on Samuel Beckett’s play Waiting for Godot has become the fastest-selling computer game in history. Godot for Wii is the latest in a series of hugely successful gaming adaptations catering for the new ‘slow gaming’ movement. Slow gaming favours quiet contemplation and existential despair over such traditional video game skills as manual dexterity and shooting skills. Nintendo’s next release, based on Marcel Proust’s epic biography A La Recherche Du Temps Perdu is currently in production and expected to hit the shops in May 2027… [this item is completely false… but strangely irresistible…]

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