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Archive for the ‘Culture’ Category

April 26th, 2008

Are You Still a Hardcore Gamer?

So you’ve always considered yourself a hardcore gamer. You’ve boasted to your friends and sat atop your throne of Gaming Greatness. But time has past. You’ve gotten older. Gotten married. Maybe have more responsibilities. So, are you still really hardcore? 
TechRadar has listed ‘11 Signs That You’re Not A Hardcore Gamer’ to help you answer the eternal […]

By Ingrid -- 1 comment

April 20th, 2008

Violence and Video Games Not Necessarily Correlated

I’m a sucker for graphs, I make them in my spare time out of inane statistics that no one really cares about. I lead a sad, sad life, but at least I can admit to my transgressions. Other people do much more useful things with graphs, like attempting to correlated the rate of release of […]

By Erin -- 0 comments

April 20th, 2008

The Quest for Gaming’s Facebook

The race is one to build on an internet-wide phenomenon (Facebook) and apply it in a focussed fashion to the games industry. I’ve been reading quite a few press releases lately that detail several startups getting capital funding, and existing sites expanding their functionality, all in an effort to entire gamers to live out their […]

By Erin -- 0 comments

April 19th, 2008

DIY: Giant NES Floormat Controller

In the event that you’ve ever wanted to make a giant floormat NES controller, there is a handy Do-It-Yourself guide up at YouTube that makes this dream a reality.
While I couldn’t fathom actually ever taking the time to do this, I think it’s amazing when people come up with this stuff and then share […]

By Ingrid -- 0 comments

April 19th, 2008

PS3 and Wii LCDs Screens For Portable Gaming

If you’ve ever stared at your PS3 or even your Wii and thought, “Damn, I wish I could take you everywhere,” well … good news. Thanks to Clearvision you can now take your PS3 anywhere you go and play it using their handy LCD screen. Similarly, China Vaison has created an LCD screen to make […]

By Ingrid -- 0 comments

April 13th, 2008

Sex Worse Than Violence In Games: Parent Poll

Despite all of the furor surrounding school shootings, re-inactment deaths, the culture of violence in today’s schools, and the incessant clamouring about violence in video games, violence isn’t even the main concern for parents in this corner of the digital entertainment industry. Scratch your heads all you like, but in spite of all the zealotry […]

By Erin -- 2 comments

April 13th, 2008

“I Knew Putting The Internet In The Basement Was A Bad Idea!”

Despite the humour, pop gaming references and general giggle worthiness of this short animation, I think it very cleverly and succinctly displays the lack of understanding and overall paranoia that is enveloping the games industry at the moment. Ignorance breeds a sort of blinded crusading righteousness that is disgusting no matter what the […]

By Erin -- 0 comments

April 10th, 2008

Game Suppli: Game Addiction Pill Supplement

Tired from playing too much? Eyes hurt and brain feels a bit like it’s melting out of your skull? Are you thinking it’s time to maybe take a break from gaming? Well, you don’t have to! Because now there’s Game Suppli, a new Japanese supplement made especially for gaming addicts “fanatics”.

“We concentrated on developing a […]

By Ingrid -- 0 comments

April 8th, 2008

Stephen King Disapproves of Mass. Game Law

It’s nice to see big names in other mainstream media come to the defense of video games considering the reputational slander that’s being slapped on the entire industry thanks to the crusading efforts of external parties and the marauding stupidity of some internal folks. Stephen King, himself attached very firmly to the world of scary, […]

By Erin -- 0 comments

April 7th, 2008

Guitar Hero Goes Mobile

Here’s some good news for those of you who can’t seem to stop playing Guitar Hero long enough to leave the house: Guitar Hero is now available for your Blackberry!
I can’t tell if this is good news or kind of overkill. Is it even fun to play this game without a guitar?
Check out […]

By Ingrid -- 5 comments

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