guest editorial
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As An Artist, I Hope Video Games Really Do Affect People
2The most important thing right now is that games don’t make people violent. That’s what needs to be said. The scientifically-sound research that supports that mostly has it covered.
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It’s The Best Time To Be A Gamer, And Here’s How That Happened
As a gamer, you’ve probably noticed a bunch of really interesting stuff happening in the games industry over the last few years. It seems like only a while back, we were stuck in a situation where, as gamers, our options were limited and frankly, boring. Pretty much the only games of note were big-budget console-based…
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Why It’s OK That GoldenEye Totally Sucks
Editor-in-chief’s note: I was annoyed when I heard that ‘an exhibition exploring fascinatingly bad games‘ being held at New York University on Friday would include GoldenEye a Nintendo 64 game I loved when I was in college. Earth Defense Force and Big Rigs I could understand. They’re so bad, they’re good. But GoldenEye? WTF?
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The Problem With War Video Games
On Monday night I attended a Modern Warfare 3 launch party at a national video game retailer. I was particularly pleased with the diversity of the crowd. I was not the only lady in the house! I spoke with students, an investment banker, a librarian, a building manager, mums, dads, kids, etc.