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Is This Game Fun?

This article that I wrote last Saturday got me wondering on how you could make this type of event a video game. The inherent problem with any game which tackles a real life issue is that invariable anyone would eventually ask “Well what fun would that be?” The reason for this is that the base…Continue readingIs This Game Fun?

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Hard Time Finding Topics

With work taking up much of my time, not being able to play games as much (in particular MMOs), and me not thinking about random events of the world as often; I’m finding it difficult to figure out what to talk about here. I think part of the problem is that this really is a…Continue readingHard Time Finding Topics

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Bushnell Quote

“The casual gamers went away, the women went away. Everyone said ‘Oh, I’m not a gamer, because I don’t want to play with 27 different buttons.’ It was suicide, it wasn’t homicide.” – Bushnell on the death of arcades Can anyone else say “Hells yeah”?Continue readingBushnell Quote

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Landmarks in Games

Last night I realized that I never finished Zelda: Wind Waker and I got to think of why that was. I really loved the game for a lot of reasons. But in the end I just couldn’t bring myself to finish it. I started to realize that the issue laid in the fact that I…Continue readingLandmarks in Games

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Raiding Guild Goodbye

In all honesty, I thought that my next report on the raiding guild I had joined would be a pretty good one. As it turned out though it will not be. I was having a pretty good time in it, I was getting groups much easier, people there were willing to play and they were…Continue readingRaiding Guild Goodbye

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Gamestop Employee

This is a post responding to our dear friend the Gamestop Employee. You can read his post here, and I’m not sure where the hell he is going to find sympothy but I do want to make sure that he feels that hassle he gets from Gamestop is nothing. I’m just going to go through his post point by point.Continue readingGamestop Employee