Archive for October, 2007

Thursday, October 25th, 2007

Game Etiquette: How Virtual Rudeness Reflects Real Life

I play World of Warcraft, and have been playing the game off and on for years. I recently acquired my own account, early this year around the time of my birthday. I really enjoy the game very much. There are so many places to explore, […]

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Tuesday, October 23rd, 2007

Wii save the day!

Most companies don’t publish their public blunders but this one is kinda funny. We decided to host our second tournament at a bar in Raleigh, NC featuring Madden 2008 on PS2, you know since it’s football season and all. The idea wasn’t necessarily ours but a Madden tournament while Monday Night Football is […]

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Tuesday, October 16th, 2007

Video Game Developers Wanted

So I read video games cost an average of $1,000,000 to $20,000,000 to make. Getting near the price of movie production. Why so much? Is it due to the complexity of the game or the nice cars the game developers drive. Or maybe they are paying off the 9 other bad […]

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Tuesday, October 16th, 2007

Halo 3 Demo

So I don’t play XBOX 360 as much as I played in the past. I decided to run to EB Games and try a snag the newest Halo 3 video game to write a review. Armed with two handful of quarters, I glance to see an available copy. Like a stealth […]

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Friday, October 5th, 2007

Political Spirit Healer

So everyone is trying to fall for the right Presidential Candidate. It’s almost like dating, everyone puts up their nice front until they finally release their beast. I decided to be the Political Spirit Healer, maybe I will be that for Halloween. I want to resurrect some issues that […]

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Wednesday, October 3rd, 2007

Health Video Games

Health care patients have an aid in learning how to take care of ones self. In “Video Games Aim to Hook Children on Better Health” , by Christopher Lee, we see the full potential for video games. The ability to help decrease urgent care visits by playing a cancer […]

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Wednesday, October 3rd, 2007

Cheater who? Cheater me?

After reading the article “Can Video Game Cheating Be Prevented?” by Brian Bergstein and Matt Slagle , I smiled sitting in my office chair. Am I a cheat? I really never cheated on exams in high school, didn’t cheat much in college, didn’t have a game genie or shark, never could […]

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Monday, October 1st, 2007

Is Google trying to take on Second Life

It appears that Google might be testing a new metaverse application based around their google map data.Acording to an article over at TimesOnline, Google is giving Arizona State University students the opportunity to test a new product “that will be publicly launched later this year”.
An announcement by the university, which already has significant ties […]

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Monday, October 1st, 2007

Free Power Leveling from TheUnknownGamer

The Unknown Gamer is accepting Articles related to World of Warcraft and other MMORPG topics in exchange for Power Leveling. In short we will level your world of warcraft character for you while you are off doing other things, and for payment we want your articles. The better the article the longer we will level […]

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