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    The Top 10 Worst Portrayals of Gamers on Television

    This list is wholly incomplete without covering NCIS, which has repeatedly portrayed gamers as extremes of the worst generic tropes. I mean, a lot of these are more about just playing to base stereotypes (of which something like Big Bag Theory does pretty much always), yet NCIS is awful. There...
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    Civilization: Beyond Earth Review - Analysis Paralysis

    Civ 5 had a lot of similar issues at launch, being both stripped down and with a lot of tedious options for the stuff that was still there. It was one of the few games that was vastly improved through the DLC, going from a fan game to an all-holy time suck of a game. Hopefully we can see that...
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    Jimquisition: The Xbox One: A Lying Failure Machine

    I was too amused by the full screen background ad from best Buy that features the Xbox One to get angry at anything. Also, that and I agree with what Jim is saying. But mostly the ad. I own both the One and the PS4, and honestly, they're both somewhat bad purchases on my part. I play...
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    The 7 Old Dungeons & Dragons Adventures That Should Get Remade

    I'd love to see Al-Qadim get remade, and it was technically part of Faerûn, so it would fit with it. Though, to be honest, my greatest hope out of FR being the centerpiece setting is to see a reprint/update to the greatest D&D book ever made, Aurora's Whole Realms Catalogue.
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    Faxanadu - A Tree Worth Climbing

    I was in the same boat... this was a frequent rental title for me, as it was one of the better, deeper, RPG/platformers of the platform era. A few other gems from the same system would be The Battle of Olympus, or the top-down Crystalis, which I keep wanting to make a game in the spirit of for...
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    SPOILER: High Profile X-men Character to Die in Upcoming Comic Arc

    Until sales of the titles he was part of dip for more than two months in a row.
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    Rumor: Next Call of Duty Details Leak, to Be Set in the Future

    Depends on how far in the future. 2142 was an interesting idea that really set off the whole precedent of "EA Ruins Everything they Touch" in gaming. It was buggy, laggy, and mired in a whole lot of junk that didn't make sense in the game because it was "cool." I would personally love to see...
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    Magic: The Gathering Creator Richard Garfield Reveals Favorite Card

    Ring of Ma'ruf and Eureka was always my favorite combo for sheer pointlessness. It was just occasionally fun to play an Ace of Spades or a Darth Vader....
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    Call of Duty: Ghosts Sales Are "Troubling," Analyst Says

    Except when most people get the money they need for the console and supply has freed up, there will be different games to play. CoD is a game where sales have always been loaded at the initial release, and anything that comes later usually happens with sales, etc. A big problem with it...