Play Nice: A Call to Repair the Online Gaming Community
The amount of online bullying, racism, and sexism being used by gamers online has reached an unacceptable level. There is a deeply rooted problem within our culture. Despite popular opinion that it is...
View ArticleUltimate Power: The End Game
Most games today, with a few notable exceptions, have some form of character progression. In role playing games this is obvious, the character levels make the character more powerful. Outside of the...
View ArticleCheater Cheater: How Old Games Cheated To Keep You Playing
There is one fundamental truth in video games as we understand them today, old games feel way harder than new ones. This is because they are. Modern games are much easier than games put out a few years...
View ArticleWhy every game is an RPG
It has occurred to me that every time I start to write about some aspect of video games it includes this sentence “this can most easily be seen in role-playing games” and I started to wonder why this...
View ArticleGo Go Gadgit Game: Can Too Much Variety Hurt?
Who doesn’t love options, especially in games. There is nothing better than surveying an enemy encampment, trying to decide if you feel more like sitting back and sniping, sneaking around for the...
View ArticleStop Fearing Controversy: How Games Can Tell Better Stories
Games seem afraid of controversy. This is completely understandable, games as a medium seem to be controversial simply for being games. Nearly every day there is some news story about the new...
View ArticleThe Disappearance of Hearts and Health Bars
The health bar is one of the most ubiquitous parts of gaming culture. Numerous t-shirts, memes and web comics have made this gaming mechanic an icon. For all its popularity, the health bar enjoyed a...
View ArticleTime in the Sun: Gamers Are No Longer the Outsiders
Gaming is in the news a lot lately and if you take a minute to think about it, this isn’t news. Every time a blog or news article wants to talk about how games are being idealized or demonized it...
View ArticleVideo Games: Hero Simulator
The media has a new buzzword for video games, murder simulators. Pundits and politicians have been using video games to explain away any undesirable behavior, from sexual deviance to mass murder. The...
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