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Trolling today seems to go hand in hand with online gaming—even going so far as to become a way of life in certain communities. Summoners on League of Legends call it “ELO Hell”, and to everyone else it’s known as “Xbox Live”. More or less we’re looking at the online gaming environment as it becomes,…
Have you ever met some one while playing Call of Duty that thought they were the best player ever? They kept talking about how they were gonna own your whole team with their awesome quick-scopes and crap like that? They insist that your team is crap and that you suck, and somehow they know your…
At some point, growing up happens to all of us. The all-night gaming sessions give way to an all-day work schedule. The Mega Man sheets and bedspreads are thrown out and replaced with something more “sensible” and “adult”, and we’re told to start paying attention to things like thread count, instead of which one of…
Sit down, folks. I’m going to deliver some news that you probably aren’t going to like. As you all know, the games industry has a serious image problem. Games are blamed for a lot of things they shouldn’t be, with political pundits shouting from the rooftops how violent games need to be censored/studied/outright banned. We’ve…
It’s probably not that much of a spoiler at this point to say that I like online multiplayer. I may only be average at online gaming (you guessed that from the title, right?) but I still enjoy it nonetheless, even when it’s at it’s most headbangingly annoying. Which is quite a lot of the time…
They’re intimately familiar questions to most of us: do violent games cause real-world violence? Are video games linked to behavioral problems? Is gaming harmful to children? And last, but certainly not least: should violent games be regulated, censored, or banned? These questions all culminate in another, far more pressing question: what’s all this jazz really about?…
We’re living in troubling times, folks. Cyber-criminals are getting smarter, and the methods we’ve got to combat them simply aren’t evolving quickly enough to keep up. The ever-increasing instance and severity of breaches we’ve been seeing of late should be evidence enough of that. Everything from Facebook to Google to Washington State itself has been…
I’m going through a phase. Sometimes, I’ll catch myself on YouTube watching a game of Crusader Kings II unfold as a nervous guy talks off-camera in a monotone punctuated by bursts of uncharacteristic enthusiasm. The premise: a person records their gaming session, narrating as they go – highs, lows, awkward pauses, expletives and all –…
If you read about the new DoTA 2 edition tech coming from SteelSeries and were a jealous Guild Wars 2 player, then you are in luck. ArenaNet has teamed up with SteelSeries to bring out a Guild Wars 2 gaming keyboard. Of course if you play for DoTA2 and Guild Wars 2, then you should…
Google Glass move over, Microsoft has applied for a patent on some augmented reality glasses. They have not only applied for a patent on the product, but its ability to match up players in the area as well. The patent describes the system as: Microsoft Patents Augmented Reality Tech A system and related methods…
Last week, I passed on my top tips for how to start out as an online gamer and survive the dreaded world of being a n00b – a treacherous world of death, crashes and failure. A world where it’s very easy to be driven to such foamy-mouthed anger that expensive keyboards and mice can…
Cube World Recipe: 1/3 chalice Dungeons and Dragons 4 blocks Minecraft 1 slash Secret of Mana Mix well and strain through indie game development studio Picroma. If you haven’t heard of Cube World yet, then you’re already missing out. If you ask me, Picroma nailed it when putting together the ideas…
What do you call an Indie gaming company who turn down the opportunity to be in the Indy Megabooth the PAX Prime Expo? Well, subjectively, the answer to that question depends on your opinion of Penny Arcade. But the objective answer to that question is- The Full Bright Company. It’s not too often that we see any…
I love me some Nintendo 64. Seriously! That’s the console that really got me into playing video games as a kid over anything else. And what a system it was! Who could forget such legendary titles such as Super Mario 64, The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time, Donkey Kong 64, Banjo-Kazooie, Mario Kart 64,…