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Gaming & Culture
EA Origin Security Flaw Could Expose Tens of Millions of Players
When it rains, it pours: Electronic Arts, currently grappling with game-breaking SimCity server issues as well as the surprise resignation of CEO John Riccitiello, might have to add “millions of players at risk of being hacked” …
Let’s Talk About Microtransactions in Video Games
TIME Tech talks about EA’s move to infuse all of its games with pay-as-you-play microtransactions.
A Helpful Reminder That Rumors Are Not Facts
The tech press falls for an Xbox hoax.
Obama Wants More Violent Video Game Studies, and That’s Okay
As defensive as I am about video games, and my right to enjoy them like any other form of speech, I draw the line at declaring we don’t need any more knowledge.
Swing Voters Choose Obama in Final Xbox LIVE Debate, but Was Poll Too Distracting?
The final debate has come and gone, and I spent it parked in front of my Xbox 360, tapping answers on my gamepad to poll questions that appeared onscreen at a rapid-fire rate roughly twice that of the second presidential showdown.
The Halo 4 Launch Trailer: Do We Really Need ‘Live Action’ Trailers?
I don’t know how I feel about live action trailers. While they’re certainly movie-like and sometimes even well-directed, they’re exactly nothing like playing a game, or even watching one.
Maine Republican Party: Playing World of Warcraft Makes You Unfit for Office
In what seems a remarkably cynical, small-minded maneuver, the Republican Party in Maine has chosen to hang a popular video game around the Democratic candidate for Maine State Senate’s neck like an albatross, accusing her of …
Apocalypse MMO: Death Becomes World of Warcraft
This weekend thousands of players dropped dead where they stood in some of World of Warcraft’s greatest cities, from Orgrimmar to Ragnaros to Stormwind.
Entire populations winked out in a matter of hours, their skeletal …
Who Needs a PlayStation 4 When You Can Have a ‘PS3 Slimmer’?
If you woke to the news yesterday morning wondering why Sony chose the Tokyo Game Show to out a new slimmer-than-slim PlayStation 3, well, just do the math: The PS3 outsells the Xbox 360 in Japan roughly six to one, whereas …
Kickstarted: Old School ‘Project Eternity’ RPG Gets Funded — Could It Raise $10 Million?
Wii U Out November 18, Priced Up to $350, ‘Nintendo TVii’ Unveiled
It was getting close, with autumn knocking, but Nintendo this morning finally announced a release date and pricing for its imminent Wii-quel, the Wii U. The set-top video games system will officially hit shelves in the U.S. on …