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Old Dogs Do Old Tricks

Another guest editorial from Eric P. enjoy! – So, do you have the shelf space for more consoles?  Personally, I am a collector and literally lost count of the amount of consoles I have. I am always ready to try something new (or old) in gaming and I always have room for more.  I was [...]

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Eric P- Censorship: The Final Boss?

Guest Writer Eric P. (http://lazyepsquared.blogspot.com/2012/07/the-fine-line-between-art-and-tact.html) explores Censorship in video games: Video games are pieces of art.  They stimulate our eyes and ears; the music, the visuals, the writing. Behind it all -yeah- it’s art.  Now, it’s important to note that video games have come leaps and bounds from pong, and 3-bit home consoles to those [...]

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More Opining from Eric P.- Women in Video Games

From Eric P. a guest writer-   Do Video Games Promote Violence Against Women? When I was a kid…Forward, Down, Forward, High Punch and suddenly the world would never be the same.  In case you don’t know, that is the decapitation fatality for Sub-Zero in the original Mortal Kombat.  You could do it to Sonya [...]

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A New Challenger Has Emerged- Guest Editorial

Here is our guest contributor of the day Eric P., a honest to goodness dev with some interesting thoughts. Enjoy…   A New Challenger Has Emerged Cowardice begets nothing. Ouya is coming out and if you don’t know about it, it’s pretty sweet sounding.  So far it has just shy of 2 million donated towards [...]

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E3 and the state of things; pt. 1

The first thoughts I had after roaming the floors of E3, were toward the bafflingly huge booths dedicated to social gaming and mobile gaming companies. These companies must be making a fairly sizable profit to be able to afford the large swathe of floor space on the E3 floor. The other thing I noticed was [...]

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A Tale of Three Sites

This is a tale of three sites, and what amounts to a net win for video game discusion on the internets: First a guy wrote an article, with what seems to be a grudge against games. Especially those that take an extended amount of time to complete. His substantial ire resounds for the game he [...]

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A Candid Love Letter to Turn Based Strategies, or My Unrequited Obsession:

I’m becoming an advocate for turn based strategies. The closest thing to chess you will find in a video game (that isn’t chess itself) is a turn based strategy. I find having time to think out each of a series of little moves in a larger strategy, ensuring victory on my terms, is a rewarding [...]

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