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Mariolink42 gave me an idea. He wrote a series of blog posts in which he took suggestions from the comments on what to write next, a sort of cyclical chain-blog. Pretty neat concept actually. I don't know if I'll go so far as to string the posts together, but I do want to write about what you...

So I've been thinking a lot about simplification and gamification lately: the process by which we turn our experiences into games, and how we might attempt to simplify them. I am in search of a pure gaming experience, in which I game solely for the pleasure of the mechanics - I want my brain to...

I've always wondered how Minecraft would work if it were more photo-real and less blocky. Not to say that I don't like it as it is, but come on, that is amazing stuff right there.

The second installment in the planned Starcraft II trilogy is shaping up to be pretty kick-ass, as it turns out. Trailer: Speaking of the trailer, is anyone else super-excited that they're now giving us cinematics that don't use the in-game engine? Starcraft and Brood War still have some of...

In order to form the most accurate opinion possible about this game, I'm going to ask you to watch a trio of trailers. Do not watch one of them, or two of them, or none of them - if you are going to participate in this thread, watch all of them. Not only will you understand why this game is...

Was inspired by some recent chatter about the game to try out its demo, and all I have to say is Jesus Christ, THAT VOICE. Second only to Alan Rickman, and it's close at that. The voice is a fascinating mechanic, mostly because they absolutely nail it - it doesn't drag or repeat itself, it's...

WARNING - Will contain a fair share of major/minor spoilers. With that said: The Walking Dead, Season 2 - IMPRESSIONS While Watchmen and the various work of Alan Moore no doubt takes the graphic novel cake, in terms of linear, serial comics The Walking Dead has got to be my favorite, and on...

MLG Orlando has been live since Friday, about this time it's really starting to ramp up. They have yet to perfect their system, I'm sure you'll have your fair share of criticisms and nit-picks, but c'mon: this is fucking eSports given the budget and attention of real professional sports. Give...

"National Novel Writing Month". 30 days, roughly 300 pages. Who's with me?

Presumably, you keep up with gaming news somehow. Like, I dunno, on websites or something. But then the LA Times runs a gaming section, and Aftenbladet (or whatever that Swedish paper is called) has a thing for eSports now...so, yeah, there's those. BUT STILL What sites do you use? Which...

For those of you who actually enjoy getting off their asses and spending a day outside, anybody else a big fan of paintball? About as close as you can get to real life Counter Strike :D I'm a big woodsball player myself - a fairly intense player on the field, but just not into how hardcore...

(Originally intended to be a forum post in the "MW3 trailer" thread, but as you can see it got a little out of hand :D) Let's take a step back for a moment. Take a deep breath, forgot all your biases and pre-emptive judgement on Call of Duty; relax, chill out, and let's take a deeper...

Music. What the fuck is it? To be honest, we just don't really know anymore. There used to be some fairly reasonable boundaries to what it meant to be music. But now that making music has been distilled down to its most basic, requiring only a PC and rudimentary technical knowledge of...

So in the past few months, we've seen enough "remakes" of classic, non-shooter titles brought into the modern era of gaming with FPS reboots, Syndicate and XCOM the most notable among them. On top of that, we've seen a goddamn tsunami of sequels, most of them 3's, with several 2's mixed in...

This looks awesome. Basically, create ships, weaponize them, fly them through a procedurally-generated world. Developer is working on adding the ability to land on planets and asteroids, and presumably a lot of other awesome space-based features.

Recently, we've seen an influx of 3D technology made available to consumers: 3D monitors, TV's, handhelds, phones, etc. I'm not too interested in wearing a pair of glasses under my headset, nor am I willing to spend the money or sacrifice performance for what honestly comes down to a gimmick...

Anybody else play ARMA II? It's the definitive military sim in Singleplayer, an absolute riot in Multiplayer with friends because you are more or less guaranteed to fail in hilarious ways, and it actively encourages you to find unorthodox solutions to the problems you're routinely presented...

Excuse my ignorance, but it just seems like a very odd juxtaposition...

Wow, so you weren't turned off by the phrase "intelligent discussion"? Bravo. Anyways, what I want to talk about is how Team9000 doesn't really seem to play anything besides Minecraft. I mean, that's fine, this is a community that formed around the game. And yes, I realize that there are a...

Hawke recently made a thread asking for our recommendations on which was the best game to buy for the $20 he had to spend, and that gave me an idea: why not create a master list of all the great games that you can get for $20 or less (or $30, I suppose, that's nearly half the price of a normal...