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    Experienced Points: The Achilles' Heel of Steam

    Lately I've been getting more nervous about having all of my eggs in one basket (game collection in Steam, running on Windows), so I decided to try out Ubuntu Linux and Steam+Gog on my laptop. It's been... interesting. Simple tasks like installing Steam and games downloaded from Gog aren't so...
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    8 Tabletop Games Inspired by Video Games

    UFS, seconded. Through some dark magic, that CCG line covered: -Street Fighter -Darkstalkers -Soul Calibur -Tekken -Mega Man -King of Fighters -Samurai Showdown -the webcomic Penny Arcade -Warhammer Online And... it was a fun card game, to boot. A bit more mechanically complex than...
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    8 of The Best Original Game Boy Games

    That brings back some memories. I owned the first six entries, when they were brand new. I'd throw the original Harvest Moon and Faceball 2000 in, as well.
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    Asmodee Acquires Catan From Mayfair Games

    The Catan novel was a good read, albeit a little long. By not having a traditional narrative, the game's general themes and setting can be woven into stories without having to worry about things like going against a predefined canon.
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    Xbox One Updates with Backwards Compatibility November 12

    Game hubs... community areas... social features... on-screen overlays... Why not just call it "Steam with avatars"?
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    Oculus VR Staff Receive Death Threats Over Facebook Deal

    Why is this in any way surprising? Self-righteous, overly self-entitled man-children have also sent death threats to: -Phil Fish -Anita Sarkeesian -Jennifer Hepler, senior writer for Dragon Age II -Jennifer Hepler's children -Bioware in general, over ME3 -Vonderhaar, a CoD:Black Ops II...
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    The Best Board Game Recommendation Site We've Ever Seen

    Only fourteen wargames worth knowing about? :) All joking aside, this is a good site for newcomers to find solid "gateway games". I just had to remind myself that I'm not the target audience for it.
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    Lords of Ultima Browser Game Bends The Knee

    I took a peek at LoU when it first came out, and I don't see the appeal of that sort of "game". It all comes down to having higher numbers (units, resources, etc.); no tactics to be found. The only strategy seemed to be in the manipulating your neighbors into not attacking you and/or ganging up...
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    Rumor: "Nintendo Fusion" Is Nintendo's New Next-Gen System

    Hey guys, remember the Virtual Boy? 8 months. 22 games. This wouldn't be the first time that Nintendo has washed their hands of a failure*, and if the Fusion plays WiiU games, the new system would have a good handful of games right at launch. *Also, ROB, Super Scope 6, N64 microphone...
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    Jimquisition: Toxic

    Those last few moments of the video have singlehandedly convinced me to attend the next Escapist Expo.
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    Good Old Reviews: I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream

    This was THE game that I learned how to use DOSBox for, and I plan on buying it through GOG on principle. I highly recommend reading the original short story first, as the game was written by Ellison to expand on it.
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    What do you think of soldiers?

    During my entire enlistment, I never once encountered a fellow soldier who -wanted- to kill a fellow human. Excited to go to the range and shoot at some pop-up targets? Sure. Eager to go on convoy training and let loose with the HMMWV-mounted .50-cal or mk.19 at some scrap-heap targets...
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    What do you think of soldiers?

    Army combat veteran, checking in. I'm eternally grateful that I've never had to kill anyone, even while I had to lug a 17 lb. machine gun around everywhere on base in Afghanistan (even to go to the on-post coffee shop or use the bathroom). But then, fixing computers and setting up...
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    DDoS Attack Clobbers Battlefield 3 Servers

    DICE "lied" after they "promised" that they'd never charge for maps? That's absolutely adorable. The very post you linked to has the quote that Mr. Bach didn't ever want to charge for maps, and they insisted to EA that it was crucial for the games' success. (I agree with him wholeheartedly; I...
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    Yet Another Busty Ninja Joins Dead Or Alive 5 Ultimate

    Man, glad I held off on buying DoA5. Between these shenanigans and GotY editions with all of the DLC, it's like the industry is conditioning us to not buy their games for at least a year after release. I'm actually starting to get nostalgic for the fact that back in the 16-bit era the games I'd...