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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 [...]

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 [...]

Nintendo isn’t the only one that’s unveiling a new system at E3. Sony has announced their successor to their PSP; the NGP (next generation portable). A follow-up to the PSP has been rumored for a long time and was officially announced earlier this year. The NGP isn’t the only thing that Sony has cooking as they also have a solid line-up of exclusives coming out later this year.

The NGP is looking to be quite the [...]

Sony may have shot down rumors of the PlayStation Store re-opening today, but there is still a shimmer of hope that gamers may be able to collect their exclusive DLC content by tomorrow. Sony just might be activating the Redeem-Code feature of the PlayStation Store tonight.

Sony did not count on millions of gamers to be upset when they relaunched their PlayStation Network service. One of the reasons why people buy a game for a certain console is because of the [...]

Like most of you, I was very excited when I read the official statement from Sony regarding the restoration of the PlayStation Network. However, there was one sentence that really caught my attention.

If using a PS3, your password can only be changed on your own PS3 (or a PS3 on which your PSN account was activated), as an added layer of security.

A few things popped into my mind after reading this. Firstly, someone who has had a PlayStation 3 die [...]