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This may come as a surprise to no one, but men and women are treated totally oppositely in online games. According a new study, the guys who are jerks in online shooters make plenty of friends, while unruly women, not so much. The takeaway in short is that online game communities support gender bias
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Indie games are huge. I don’t know the exact percentage of games we cover nowadays but I’d wager if you ran some analytics the indies would outnumber the big boys by 10 to 1. They’re so predominant, so diverse, and so businesslike that the idea of indie games is quite nebulous. Sometimes we talk aro
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The X Games will be hosting an inaugural esports tournament when they come through Austin on June 6-8, spotlighting pro gamers alongside the likes of professional skaters and motorcrossers. They’ll even be awarded X Game medals. See, Bryant Gumbel: we told you that esports were cool. The move makes
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I’ve been sick with flu for the past week, and occasionally subject to fever dreams, the half-waking, half-sleeping kind. One was of cockroaches outside the window conspiring telepathically to invade the house. So I had to pinch myself when I got the email for the Kickstarter project Dancers of War,
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In defense of salivation.
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Real-life is even stupider than Call of Duty
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I hate the games down in Africa.
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Among other things: Eminem has a new album.
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Riley the dog makes an entrance as we make an exit.
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Most games are hard to watch live. How one competitive gaming outlet is looking to change your perspective.
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The answer is a resounding maybe. Simon Parkin tackled the crucial issue in a timely article for Eurogamer. To prove that they do, he tracked down a gun-crazed kid in Illinois, a B.B. gun manufacturer who produces replicas of automatic weapons, a US Senator, an game developer who wished to remain an