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Why You Shouldn’t Be Playing GTA 5 This Week

Let me state up front that I have no problem with GTA 5 being violent, full of crime, endorsing drug use, or whatever nonsense critics are coming up with. It’s a game; and people who have trouble distinguishing reality from games have more pressing concerns than what game they happen to be playing.  I personally own […]

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Pointing a Finger, EA Failed Gamers?

There has been a lot of news this week in the gaming industry over what has to be considered a major f**k up from Electronic Arts COO Peter Moore.  In case you’ve missed it EA won the Consumerist’s Worst Company in America Award (again) for putting out half finished games at $60 price points, gouging […]

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In the Future of Storytelling “Episodic Gaming”

I have always enjoyed grand epic storytelling; novels, classic literature, comics, film, video games, but not really television until recently.  Television when I was growing up didn’t have much in the way of story line progression.  Shows had good guys and bad guys and they would duke it out for thirty minutes until the good guys won, that […]

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