I suspect that all these arguments about what it means to be a 'real' gamer spring from people being in different stages. Speaking of stages, these are the kittens I went through.
It takes a truly mad game designer to bring a Jigsaw-Killer deviousness to bear on their most die-hard, legitimate fans.
Every time an industry dominated by one gender starts to become more diverse, the transition period is bumpy. We spoke to Brianna Wu and a few others to learn what it's like.
The writers behind the confusing and disjointed skull-fractured fairy tales currently passed off as 'storylines' really should have embraced the following when they had the chance.
Now we'll see how in-app purchases are doing more damage to the worlds of gaming than every alien armada ever simulated.
Amidst the killer robots and hyper-masculine scientists is a clever exploration of a woman's struggle in a male-dominated culture, and we're not just saying that because your only weapon is a gun that shoots vagina metaphors.
I don't have any science to back up the following theories because when I proposed studies, I was told to get out of the dean's office and put some damn pants on.
In 1998, Hugo Chavez won the Venezuelan presidential elections, and Juan got to learn what 14 years under a veritable dictatorship does to the gaming scene.
My theory is that it's because video games, more so than any other artform, are designed to get you addicted, and that this addiction has turned a bunch of dorky but harmless people into raving lunatics.
One would think that browser games for children would avoid any long trips to Creepy Town.
Since nothing numbs the pain of rapidly aging out of pop culture relevancy in your 30s like trying to re-create a moment from your youth, I decided to take on the trail once more.
Some developers apparently decided 'screw the obvious and logical game over scenarios! Death should lurk around every corner, waiting to pants the player in bizarre and unpredictable ways.'
Nobody hates video games more than gamers.
Who knew Smash Bros. and History would be such an amazing mash-up?
Dedicate enough time to unlocking a game's secrets and you too could be scarred for life.