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“Don’t you think that video games like this encourage kids to kill?”  This question was posed to me while playing Call of Duty: Black Ops recently.  I took time out of my 7 kill streak to answer their question with another question.  “When you watch the evening news and they show images of a traffic accident, does that give you the urge to go wreck your car?”  After awaiting a response, and losing my streak right before I got my [...]

Video Game violence has been a very touchy subject, especially as of late with California single-handedly trying to erase it, and the MATURE rating is just about the only rating we see any more.

Think about the Picasso in the 1900s – his art was considered crude, frightening, disturbing, and down-right offensive, often resulting in censorship. In modern times there is nothing wrong with the paintings – nothing seems all that bizarre about them. Now think about A Clock Work Orange [...]

F.E.A.R 3 has taken me by surprise. I had almost forgotten about due to the Duke Nukem drama and Battlefield 3 hype, so, when it arrived this morning, I wasn’t too excited to play it. I dragged my tired ass out of bed, slipped the disc into the console to check out how it would play. What was supposed to be a few minute trial over the game ended up being several hours. The game hooked me. The shooting mechanics [...]

Microsoft’s E3 lineup is looking the bleakest of “the Big Three”. Apart from Gears of War 3 and the new Forza Motorsport game Microsoft has very few (known) exclusives. But Microsoft is known to play hardball and will most likely have some surprises in store and many of the multi-platform AAA titles (CoD: MW3 will be there) demonstrated on their Xbox 360 stage.

Similar to Sony’s move, the Microsoft Kinect has sold relatively well, but [...]

After 13 years of waiting, Duke Nukem Forever is finally here. With exactly one week to go until the game releases, GearBox Software have released the demo to the members of the Early Access club. Unfortunately, the demo is rather disappointing.

Right off the bat, there were a few things that I noticed that really killed the experience for me. First, and foremost, it was the character movement and animation. Duke Nukem is a big guy, yet he moves so weightlessly–he [...]

BRINK, a first person shooter game that was highly anticipated because of it’s originality, somehow missed its mark. Some of the most popular gaming websites have been giving BRINK a rather mediocre score, and I’m being generous by saying that. BRINK has a score of 69 (Xbox 360) and 77 (PlayStation 3) on Metacritic. With both IGN and Gamespot giving it a 6 out of 10, it really makes you wonder; is BRINK really that disappointing? Not everyone seems to [...]

As we now know, the Duke Nukem Forever demo is expected to hit the PlayStation store and Xbox Live Market Place early next week, but should PlayStation 3 gamers be concerned? There is till no official date of when the PlayStation Network will be back up and running. Does this mean that PlayStation gamers will have to sit patiently and wait while Xbox 360 gamers indulge in a sexed-up shooter?

As of tonight the PlayStation Network will have been offline for [...]