Art of Gaming: Blood Dragon, the Stanley Parable and the chance of humour in video games

Can video video games, identical to motion pictures, be comedies?

In our newest Art of Gaming video, Usul and Trinity analyse how humour works in Far Cry three: Blood Dragon and The Stanley Parable. The burlesque, irony, or the absurd, typically take centre stage in these kinds of video games. It’s what makes them value enjoying.

VG247 has teamed up with European tradition channel ARTE to completely debut new episodes of Art of Gaming, a 10-part collection taking a look at crucial video games of the previous few years.

Hosted by French gaming blogger Trinity and German journalist Melek Balgün, every episode sees the pair play traditional video games and focus on their affect on leisure, the participant and video games tradition at massive.

You can watch earlier episodes here.

More episodes of Art of Gaming will debut on VG247 each week all through July and August.

ARTE, the European tradition channel, has been subtitling its programmes because the launch of ARTE in English in November 2015.

The mission is co-funded by the European Union and goals to carry Europeans collectively by a shared love of tradition. Find out extra about ARTE in English here.

 
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