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I should be charging admission to my living room! What did movies start as? Short, almost pointless means of entertainment that were being produced simply because the technology to do so had become readily available. And what did video games start    read more... Posted on Wednesday, April 9 2008

Yokiro 1133 views

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Shock Treatment Very few games nowadays do horror effectively. There are many typical routes that writers take to induce a scary experience. To name a few of the better examples, try looking at the two major    read more... Posted on Tuesday, April 8 2008

3scapism 893 views

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Sequels, a love/hate affair Sequels, always expected, yet hated almost just as much. Movies and novels all have a sequel at some point and they are always welcomed by the fans since they want to see more. Sometimes sequels are    read more... Posted on Friday, April 4 2008

wildmario 943 views

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Squeezing Blood from Asphault Without a doubt, driving games are my favorite genre. I had practically fallen out of touch with console gaming until a little game called Star Wars Episode 1: Racer entered my life. That    read more... Posted on Wednesday, April 2 2008

tom- 1165 views

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Tech Support offering nothing but my anger Well my Vox Pop winning entry has a follow up of sorts, although loosely based on the original, shortly after I received my Guitar Hero 3, I got a call back from one of the places I applied to. It    read more... Posted on Monday, March 31 2008

Icepick 1049 views

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Gaming Addiction Addiction's a funny thing. There are people, know-it-all people, who would claim a person has an addiction if they frequently indulge in something they enjoy whether that 'thing' is music, films,    read more... Posted on Thursday, March 27 2008

maca2kx 1276 views

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originality in videogaming When I was a kid, I remember small games that turned out to be revolutionary in the end. Those games were Mario, Metroid, Metal Gear Solid, Silent Hill and many others. For a time, many new ideas were    read more... Posted on Monday, March 24 2008

Solaris10 888 views

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"Games Don't Need Romance!" Hmm. Romantic subplots in games, eh? Well my opinion is a tad torn on this one. Check it: It seems that not only are romances genre-specific, but format-exclusives as a result. When is the last    read more... Posted on Monday, March 24 2008

3scapism 1074 views

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The Effectiveness of Videogame Advertisements My wrist was throbbing. This was probably the 27th time I had tried to get past the first part of Through the Fire and Flames on Expert. I had played the song a million times in practice mode and    read more... Posted on Saturday, March 22 2008

-FCM- 1132 views

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Outpacing the Technology from Today I finally saw some videos of Crysis today, and I have to say that it is impressive visually. It looks as close to as realism as I think we have ever gotten in the graphics department, and quite    read more... Posted on Thursday, March 20 2008

LinksOcarina 1189 views

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Bioshock: Neo-Journalism!? (Mel's note: This was difficult to post on GR, as it was a toss-up between a rant about games journalism, and praise for the game. Thus it is both posted as a blog and a review!) A Bioshock    read more... Posted on Friday, March 14 2008

3scapism 940 views

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Now 10% More Absorbent than IGN It's a sad, sad state of affairs when Kotaku's RSS feed has more than double the number of items per day than the CBC news feed. Every day, Google Reader churns out hundreds of items for me to read,    read more... Posted on Wednesday, March 12 2008

Geodole 1112 views

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Can video games exist without conflict? In light of the videogames controversy concerning violence being overused, tasteless and dangerous to young children, I tried to rationally explore and ponder on the situation. Let me start this by    read more... Posted on Tuesday, March 11 2008

Matiesz 812 views