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Gaming Is Killing Camping! Eagle Watching Is Next!

You damn kids! You need to put down your Nintendo PlayStations and get down to one of our nation's fine national or state parks, put some outdoor learnin' into you. In what's just one more advertorial away from becoming a trend, the Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune is calling for kids, parents and grandparents to get back to nature, shut down the Xboxs and get some eagle watching done, Minnesota style.

What the Star Tribune probably doesn't realize is that the grandparents are now hooked on Wii Sports bowling and the kids are getting their nature fix from Endless Ocean. I'm off to shun real life nature with a photo safari in Pokemon Snap. Take that, anonymous nature boy!

Editorial: Pause the Playstation and head to Wabasha [Minneapolis-St. Paul Star Tribune]

4:40 PM on Tue Mar 4 2008
By Michael McWhertor
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-14.95 Credit Card of Charging

Every time I hear, see, read about World of Warcraft one thing pops into my head. It's not my nearly forgotten druid character who has a name I can no longer remember, goals I don't care about and sits languishing in some Inn. It's not the hours of fun I had playing the massively multiplayer game when it first came out. It's my check book. More »

10:28 AM on Wed Jul 13 2005
By Brian Crecente
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Hater Game Reviews

Your Video Games Suck is the ultimate hater wiki for gamers. The game review site is dedicated to looking at the negative side of games and making fun of them. The site only offers up nine user written articles so far, but man are they filled with hate. All entries are user submitted using the Wikipedia source, so hop on over and vent that spleen. More »

9:34 AM on Wed Jun 29 2005
By Brian Crecente
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I Want a War Game that Gives you PTSD

My brother just sent me a link to a great screed on War simulations that he found posted on Craigslist. The article was actually swiped from PointlessWasteofTime.com and was written by the same guy who wrote the now kinda famous Gamer's Manifesto. More »

3:39 PM on Mon Jun 27 2005
By Brian Crecente
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Do Video Game Concerts Revive Concert Going?

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution has a nice write up on the Dear Friends: Music of Final Fantasy that played in Georgia over the weekend. The piece was actually written before the concert, but does a job of explaining both the cultural importance of the concert and why concert halls around the country are suddenly falling all over themselves to do video game performances.
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6:31 AM on Mon Jun 27 2005
By Brian Crecente
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NBA Live: Transcending the Virtual

If the premier article is indicative of things to come Joshuah More »
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Pac-Man a Transforming Force in American Culture

The (Elkin-Jonesville, N.C.) Tribune has an excellent editorial up about the significance of Pac-Man s silver anniversary. The paper says the game has ushered in a video game age that is a legitimately transforming force in the most robust and diverse entertainment culture the world has ever known. More »

9:30 AM on Tue Jun 21 2005
By Brian Crecente
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PSP Licker Hatemail

Although I'm not a regular reader of the IGN mailbag (typo-ridden and grammar-lacking fanboy letters are hardly my cup of tea), I felt obligated to take a peek after reading Hatsumi's recent column. More »

7:00 AM on Fri Jun 17 2005
By smizek2
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First-Person Gamer's Mag

MTV News sat down with the editor of The Gamer s Quarter to talk to him about the impetus for creating a free online zine dedicated to (gasp) New Games Journalism. It s MTV-short, but worth the read with a nice run down of the first issue and tease to the second, which just hit the website. Check out the article and The Gamer s Quarter, both deserve your time. More »

6:32 AM on Fri Jun 17 2005
By Brian Crecente
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Reviewing Game Store Customer Service

I love secret shoppers, it empowers us all. 1Up/EGM had a woman go in to several game and electronic stores and play up the old I m a girl and don t know jack about games stereotype. The results run from heartening to horrifying. To summerize, though you really should go read the entire item it s a gem, GameStop rocks, EB Games are elitists, Best Buy is moronic and Toys R Us should have their games taken away from them. More »

6:26 AM on Tue Jun 14 2005
By Brian Crecente
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Daily Mail Jumps the Gun on VG Violence

The UK's Daily Mail ran a story Sunday that says a new study has proven that video games can lead to more violent behavior. You have to read through nearly the entire article before you get to this great line from one of the leaders of the research. More »

12:29 PM on Mon Jun 13 2005
By Brian Crecente
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Game Voice Strike Imminent: Does Anyone Care?

While we will find out later today whether the Screen Actors Guild will strike it appears no one will care. I've heard it from execs and flaks, but now the Los Angles Daily News is asking just how important is vocal talent to the commercial success of a title? In other words, do you really care who does the voice for Marlon Brandon in The Godfather The Game? I'm guessing you don't which sort of means if 1,000 SAG voters decide to strike they're screwed. More »

5:15 AM on Wed Jun 8 2005
By Brian Crecente
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The Lazy Man's Bloglines

FeedGarden has a sexy new look. The PSP news aggregator has expanded to include eight different gardens including PSP, Videogame and Xbox 360. Think of it as a sort of a concentrated aggregator, a place that provides a snapshop about a particular subject in an easy to read system. Or as the site s creator calls it, a lazy person s Bloglines. The site will eventually update every 15 minutes or so, but right now is running at about once an hour. More »

10:48 AM on Fri Jun 3 2005
By Brian Crecente
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Which of the Four Game Namers are you?

Are you a Pop Culturist, Uninspired, Shock Artist or Loyalist? Druidblue says that the names typically chosen in a massively multiplayer online role playing game falls into those four categories. More »

9:21 AM on Fri Jun 3 2005
By Brian Crecente
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Gaming's Cross-Road

A few years ago I was talking to Chip Lange, then vice president of EA Sports, about the pervasiveness of video games and how newspapers were covering them. He was bemoaning the fact that at the time most newspaper reporters who covered gaming did so as a side job. (While I write a monthly game column for the Rocky Mountain News, my full-time job is as a police reporter.) He pointed out that you would never see that in a paper s coverage of the music or movie industry. And then he said something that really brought it all home: He said it wouldn t be long before we had the first president in the White House who grew up playing video games. More »

5:35 AM on Fri Jun 3 2005
By Brian Crecente
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Carnival of Gamers Harshing

Well that didn't last too long. The Carnival of Gamers, a collection of interesting and unusual game links, was an attempt at cutting through all of the back-biting and self-promotion of blogging and instead concentrate on good writing. Cathode Tan points out that not everyone liked the idea. Someone needs a hug I think. More »

8:33 AM on Thu Jun 2 2005
By Brian Crecente
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Son of Gametab

Gametab's grand social experiment seems to have floundered a bit. Those of you who use the gaming news tabulator, and everyone who likes gaming should, probably noticed the addition of a news nexus a few weeks back. More »

1:38 AM on Tue May 31 2005
By Brian Crecente
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Best at What?

Are the E3 awards handed out each year by an increasing number of publications and sites each year worth anything? The problem is two-fold. First, the awards are based on games that have not been completed, so may look better or worse than they will when they are finally released. Second, there are so many awards given out each year that it's hard to really pay attention. More »

10:28 AM on Thu May 26 2005
By Brian Crecente
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