In a short break in the midst of a lot of programming I have to do right now, I visited Slate, which I don’t do that often, but I came across a post about killing your avatar in various video games, especially a new one called “Pain”, a silly looking, cartoonish game which involves nothing more than flinging your character out of a slingshot to kill him. They put together a fascinating slideshow about video game death which is well worth watching–the Roller Coaster Tycoon video in particular is highly captivating. Read the rest of this entry »