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Video Game Question For The Advice Columnist

7:00AM Stephen Totilo | An eight-year-old boy’s parents are concerned about the violent games enjoyed by their son’s friend, who often invites their son over. They don’t want to nix the friendship, ban gaming during visits or question the other parents. What to do? More »

Good Games That’ll Work on Your Relatives’ Crappy PC

6:00AM Owen Good | Visiting family for the holidays? You know what an antisocial faux-pas it is to bring along a console, and if you’re a PC gamer, hell if you’re dragging along that rig. More »
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Five Ways to Stretch Your Gaming Dollar

3:00AM Owen Good | Despite the conventional wisdom that games are recession-proof, and collectively folks might seek them out more in bad economic times, individually a lot of us might have a hard time shelling out $130 every other week for the latest bigshot title. And if your unfinished titles have low replay (or never-wanted-to-play-anyway) value to it, you probably need a strategy for pursuing new games more frugally. Wired’s GeekDad blog has five tips for stretching the game dollar — not including rentals. More »