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I'm Not Getting Old, The Game Industry Is

I was flipping through the latest issue of Game Informer at a friend’s house the other day, and as I looked at the advertisements, I realized something: I no longer knew all the upcoming games for all the systems like I used to. The ads were all over the place, page after page full of so many games I had never even heard of. But somehow they were all familiar. A lot of them looked like games I’d already seen, but in a slightly different shade. You may….

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EVE Online Diary of a Part-Timer: April 30

A philosophy I try to adhere to says not to judge things, but to take them as they are, essentially accepting that “it is what it is.” This line of thinking brings to mind the user interface in EVE Online, notably that your character is, for most practical purposes, a ship rather than a person. What effect on game play does that have? As a fairly typical male of my species–I leave the identity thereof to your imagination and sense of humor–I note that in EVE Online….

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