My copy of Act of War: Direct Action arrived yesterday. In a rush to get to the gaming goodness, I cracked the seal and turned to the technical specifications to see how much space I had to find on my hard drive. Six gigabytes. On a forty gig hard drive, that’s a lot of real […]

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For all the chat in gaming circles about the perceived lack of female gamers out there, there is an even more glaring gender imbalance in who covers games. I was going to do a statistical study of gaming sites and print publications to see how many women were writing game reviews – especially on sites […]

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Bit by bit, tempting chunks of information about Age of Empires 3 is being released by Ensemble Studios. This month’s Computer Games Magazine has a lengthy preview and news sites around the ‘net are doing stories on what is probably the most eagerly awaited RTS for 2005. Once again, each civilization will have unique units […]

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A CNN survey of experts has concluded that video games are the 15th greatest technological breakthrough of the last 25 years. This tops remote controls (21), biometrics (16) and cloning (22). Nice to see that I’m not the only person who takes this hobby way too seriously.

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Today’s New York Times catches up to two months ago with a brief story about New Games Journalism. (registration required.) There is not much new in the article. It rehashes the argument made by Kieron Gillen that NGJ is a new way to write about games, implies that it is a superior way, etc. What […]

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