Yes. It's as clear as can be that Gone Home, Depression Quest, Dear Esther, Passage, and whatever else you've got is a videogame. Even the stuff you'll find on the floor at a place like Babycastles qualifies. We won't be pulling any mental shenanigans here by trying to rob them of what they are. What we're interested in here is what genre they're a part of, and how they measure up within that genre.
Trying to categorize games across more abstract forms than that is just asking for trouble.
But Is It A Game?
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I like Alex Kierkegaard's idea that art is videogames. It's like how you'd read about kids in past eras that'd be voraciously addicted to books, with parents unable to tear them away from their literature without great difficulty. And how you'd hear people today saying stuff like, "oh kids these days are hopelessly glued to their videogames." Kierkegaard's theory practically makes such a saying timeless.
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Telltale May Not Make Games, But They Do Make Magic - http://gamasutra.com/blogs/WarrenSpecto ... _Magic.php
Warren Spector wrote: If you need to put a label on what Telltale does, here's my answer: No, they're not making games. They are, as I hinted earlier, making "experiences" (my preferred, if imprecise term). To be more concrete, and at risk of being mocked for resurrecting a term long thought dead, let's say Telltale is the place that finally cracked the “interactive movie” code. Terminology aside (and my embarrassment at using it), for those of you who've been sleeping under a rock for the last 25 years, the true interactive movie has been the holy grail for a lot of developers and, now we know, the experience of choice for a lot of players. And Telltale's better at it than anyone else.
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http://keithburgun.net/psychological-ex ... -in-games/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a-Qva8lG4mYKeith Burgun wrote: Games like Fallout Shelter should be seen for what they are - drugs. They are not games. They are not entertainment any more than you'd refer to any addictive drug "entertainment".
Walter White wrote: There's nothing but chemistry here.
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Microsoft Office programs now have ESRB ratings - http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showpost.ph ... ostcount=1
RedToad64 wrote: If you view the Office applications on the Windows 10 Store then you will see they now have ESRB ratings! Here are some screenshots I took.
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In fact, it looks like most (or maybe all?) of Microsoft's apps have ESRB ratings now. How unusual!
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Spotify now available on Epic Games store - https://www.epicgames.com/store/en-US/p ... otify/home