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Archive for July, 2008

The Power of Money

July 28, 2008

Today on GamePolitics.com, the ESA released the figures and benefactors of its recent “political donations”. I’m 100% for political donations to help raise the awareness of video game politics to our elected officials, but my gripe lies in the amounts given.

The video game industry boasts being a multi-billion dollar industry and out-profiting movies per year. [...]

The Joys of World PvP

July 22, 2008

. . . or rather, the unrelenting frustrations with it.
I don’t know what kind of gamer “World PvP” exactly caters to since most of them that literally demand it be present in their MMOs are the first ones to complain about getting “ganked” or “camped”. I’ve never personally enjoyed World PvP and I especially despise [...]