Recent content by Roysten

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    South Park: The Fractured But Whole Delayed Yet Again

    Someone should ask Ubisoft if this "other company"s name rhymes with Splintendo.
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    Trauma, Healing and Gaming Part 3: The Art and Science of PTSD

    Don't get too stuck on the whole trigger issue it's peripheral. PTSD is a problem with an individuals ability to process a memory or memories normally; the traumatic memory is re-experienced fully as if the events are actually happening again. The traumatic memory can be triggered but this is...
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    Trauma, Healing and Gaming Part 2: Triggers and Trigger Warnings

    Excellent couple of articles, I look forward to reading the next two. I went undiagnosed with PTSD for thirty years and during that time computer games happened. Books, music, films, but mostly computer games provided escape for me over those years. I will always chalk up computer games as a...
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    Free-to-play is the WORST thing to happen to video gaming.

    Free to play should be a great thing, in practice it really isn't. It does something to the companies that run the games, it breeds a contempt for their customers that is palpable. If you want a current example check out Archeage a very recent MMO run by Trion. I am in the middle of trying...
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    I this legit?

    I came across that site when I was looking into getting an archeage founders pack. The price they quoted was hugely lower than a direct purchase. So much lower that I stepped away and bought it direct from Trion. The principle being that if something looks too good to be true then.... It...
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    Why You Should Still Be Pumped For Watch Dogs

    The title of this piece is grating, the whole "pumped" thing screams hyperbole. Reading this in the U.K. I was almost expecting to read a piece of satire on 90's print gaming journalism, the language does not travel well across the pond. The substance of the article was well written but...