URL: http://p-v-p.com
Someone once said “With time, men and gods would develop a common language made up of hierogamy and sacrifice . . . . And, when it became a dead language, people started talking about mythology”.
But that has absolutely nothing to do with this website. Duke Nukem once said “It’s time to kick ass and chew bubble gum… and I’m all out of gum,” and that is all this website is about.
A video game is the ultimate form of media. A good film will make you laugh or cry and a great film will make you wonder. But a great video game allows you to direct and act in your film and relive the ending a hundred times as if it was the first glorious time. You are not experiencing, you are the experience.
And the experience is even more special in emerging markets where this site is based. “Times are tough and love is not enough” does not even begin describe an average life that is passionate about video games. Amidst parental and peer expectations and the crushing numbing inevitable rush of life, video games stand out in our collective young middle class memories as vistas of imagination to which we forever reach out in solace, inspiration or comfort – Like a virtual Robinson Crusoe with our very own wrecked ship anchored a few pixels away.
Perhaps most importantly we do fervently believe that he who picks up a controller will not pick up a gun. We aim at the zenith of our aspiration to fan the passion of gaming in a young life so that the lives that be are not lives that cease to be.
It is important that there is a site and a community that balances and gives perspective to such lives, that allows them to share, vent and listen to views of megalomaniacs such as myself - Mindlessly believing I am a venerable cross between Steve Jobs, Yoshitaka Amano and Nabokov is encouraged.
So if you ever turned and drfited across a sharp corner at fast speed without braking because that’s just how you play, or you look at a tall building and wonder if there is a sniper there, or if you pass a lunch hour imagining the vast armies of night elves you will accumulate at a hundred keyboard commands a minute, believe in the Master Chief, or swear allegiance to the Snake, have calluses in your hands from chasing Fifa through balls…. Or if you are all out of gum: This one’s for you.