One of the hot topics that continues to rage on in the United States today is guns, violent media, particularly violent video games. Just about any news station you turn it on, you’ll see a group of “analysis” or “experts” giving their opinion about how video games should be banned, they should be controlled, but without really backing it up with anything of substance...
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2012 really was Minecraft’s year. Well, Minecraft and the Mayan calendar. Why was 2012 all about Minecraft? There’s the obvious answer: the PC and iOS versions released at the tail end of 2011 while the Xbox version released in Spring of 2012, but that answer is no fun. How is it that Minecraft has hooked so many people (including myself) with all its blocky, scary, and sometimes buggy glory? I pl...
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I don’t know where to start with this. It’s a mess. There are few women in the interactive industry, and the ones who make it there are treated miserably. The more I think about it, the angrier I become. This, I’m told, is a very ugly trait for a woman. All I can say is that the whole thing is incredibly cyclical, and is spiraling into a point where women are shoved aside to cater to the needs of ...
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Thoughts VS Opinions “Digital Downloads and Ownership” For a while now I have looked at the games industry from a rather long distance away when it comes to their business practices. Slowly we have begun to see that companies feel that the consumer isn’t entitled to digital products that they pay their well earned cash for. Today my mind completely snapped when I found out that not onl...
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Reviews are very important to the gaming community, and to the industry itself. Gamers care about reviews because a video game is a luxury in a world where unemployment and worrying about money are common. We also care about reviews because the gaming medium demands a lot of time and engagement from its audience, and we want to make sure the time we’re about to invest in one of these worlds is wor...
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Thoughts VS Opinions “World of Warcraft Back in the Days” Mists Of Pandaria the 4th expansion pack to be launched on the 25th of September this year from the biggest MMORPG ever, World of Warcraft. That at one point had 12 million subscribers and now “only” 9.1 million subscribers worldwide. Has Blizzard for definate killed WoW? Even though they have announced that they hav...
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Thoughts VS Opinions The Imperfect Realism There are a lot of theories on what direction should video games go for. Some claim that there will never be a perfect Zombie game – whatever that might be – while others claim beloved characters in an action-horror game might end with the third installment. Theories like these are great as it gets us to think about our video games and ways they can be im...
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Thoughts VS Opinions Female Gamer and Discrimination There are lots of people playing video games now than twenty years ago, each coming various cultures, races, and genders. We have Japanese gamers who brought us memorable JRPGs like Persona 4 or love their visual novels. There are European gamers that enjoy the simulation and micro-management of their sports along with the action-packed moments ...
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Thoughts VS Opinions The Stereotype of a Geek is Being Shattered Under the Weight of What is Now a Massive Industry When people refer to another person as a ‘geek’ what some often envision is a small male, with glasses and possibly owning the social skills of a rabies infested lab rat. Wherever this image emerged from, be it popular culture or even a fact of the past, it is now a dying...
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Thoughts VS Opinions Conflicting ideals and Missed Chances Could Mean we Never See the Emergence of a Perfect Zombie Game. If we look at a long list of zombie games that have emerged in the past decade, none of them have really done it for me in terms of keeping me enthralled and having me think “yeah, you know what this is exactly what I was looking for, it’s the perfect zombie game.&...
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