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MS Changes Name of Column....We're all incredibly relieved. I just hope there isn't a big holystoning party going on over there. No need for collateral BS.Now that this is resolved, I welcome the guy. We can use any help we can get in getting these wallflower parents to start paying attention to their kids and what they're doing. If he can help lower the proportion of little punks getting away

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MS Trying to Steal Gamerdad NameLast Friday-ish, up on Gamerscore Blog, they highlighted a new column over on Xbox.com. It's called Gamer dad. This was extremely unwelcome news to us. You see, that name has been in use by us for over three years at Gamerdad.It's not like they didn't know they were stealing the name. As you'll note right there in the top of the entry they pointed out the

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I Fold...They're having a poker tournament down at a local comic store. Some comic luminaries are going to be there, and the whole event is going to culminate with a poker tournament to benefitChild's Play. This is a worthy cause and I very much support it. One of the prizes is something I want very badly. The only problem is, I really can't play.Texas Hold'em is the name of the game. I've

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A New Kind of Idiot in Town...With the recent resurgence of everyone's favorite Florida Lawyer, an odd sort of freak has crawled out from between the keys on the keyboards and oozed their way onto many game-related message boards and websites. They create an identity posing as Mr. Thompson and post inane nonsense supposedly in his character. I have a few words to say to these individuals, and

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Brownback's FollyIn case you hadn't heard the government's latest attempt to figure out what to do with the soi disant "problem of videogames" is a real doozy. It all starts out so innocently as a requirement for the ESRB to actually play the games they rate (which I support), but is structured in a way that would force the system to fail and then mandate the government take over when that

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Episodic Games Save Aging Gamers?Originally posted here, in response to this piece of work.I'm trying to figure out exactly what you were trying to say here. Let me try to lay out this logic chain:-- the average gamer is 33-- 33 year olds don't have as much time to game-- most "regular" games take a lot of time and skills to play-- older players are going to like it if you cut their games into

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Guitar Hero Blues....I'm stuck here at work (duh duh duh duh duh)And I can't play my game (duh duh duh duh duh)My servers are screamin' (duh duh duh duh duh)My kids are a pain (duh duh duh duh duh)But I'll get to play soon! (duh duh duh duh duh)One more day to go! (duh duh duh duh duh)'Cause it's Friday all day here (duh duh duh duh duh)And tomorrow's my show! (duh duh duh duh duh)(with

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Advice About Writing An Article About Female Gaming....Richard Cobbett has a great tongue-in-cheek look at the issue of writing articles about females and gaming. Get the full effect here.As a female writing about games I've tilted at this particular windmill a couple times myself. I'm frantically reading back through my articles now to see how many of his "rules" I follow. ;)As funny as it is

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MomGamer #77: Confessions of a Hardcore Casual GamerOriginally published on Gamerdad.com here.January 12, 2006I know it sounds silly, but often it feels like a secret addiction. Especially when you get out on the mainstream gaming sites and message boards. When the gang is all going on about the Fight Night 3 demo or the latest blast-aliens-to-green-goo, sometimes I don't pay as much attention as

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Orphaned Content is NOT the Problem here...Hot Coffee has had some unintended consequences in the real world. In my "Daily Planet" job, I'm a software developer. Not for anything cool, you understand. Just business stuff. We recieved an update to an industry publication about "coding best practices", and it now suggests that orphaning code is no longer the preferred method for dealing with

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A few previews of coming attractions...It's E3 time, and everyone's trotting out their new shiny ponies for us to drool over. Here are a few that look promising:The Incredible Hulk: Ultimate DestructionAnyone seen this? Got the link off CTRL+ALT+DEL's homepage and it made me happy. The last game was just way too much fun in spots and I don't see any Banner-time here. Due out August 2005 so no

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Doom 3 should have a warning label for people with heart conditions...And I'm not the only one who thinks so. Jim Lileks had this to say about his experience:...I turned all the lights off. I put on the headphones. I was down in a dark corridor, hearing the screams of the Marines on the communications systems, the bangs on the wall, the groan of bending metal; I had my shotgun. I stepped towards

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Gaming as a normal guy...Our friends over at Websnark are talking about pen-and-paper RPG's today, and this one paragraph juxtaposed with the arrival of my first Paranoia XP book caused me to snarf tea all over my keyboard:I'm reminded, tangentially, of the old White Wolf jokes. The ones White Wolf developers are sick to God of hearing, I would add. The jokes that they should come out with a Role

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YOU ARE IN ERROR. NO ONE IS SCREAMING. THANK YOU FOR YOUR COOPERATION.One of my favorite old pen-and-paper games when I was in school was Paranoia. You live in a world where a computer runs everything, and you've just been assigned the job of troublshooting all sorts of fun and exciting things around the Alpha Complex. Thank goodness you have six clones or you wouldn't last 10 minutes. The

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Sakaguchi on the Xbox...I've always said I'd love to see what some of the Square guys would do with the Xbox hardware. I finally get my wish. Hironobu Sakaguchi's newly created studio Mistwalker will be creating two exclusive RPG's for the Xbox console. I can't wait to see what they have in store for us.

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Dungeons and Dragons changed the world... I ran into a link to this article on a message board, and I was curious what you think. Take a look-see here.

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Last summer my daughters went to a garage sale in our complex with some money they got walking dogs. I was expecting them to come home with the usual seven stuffed animals and a handful of cheap jewelery. They walked back into the house with one really big stuffed panda bear, a cardboard box and two really big grins. They handed me the box and I opened it carefully. They had that look in their

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Welcome to Fort Castle Inn Keep!... Those crazy guys over at somethingawful.com have given us a hillarious look at what it would be like to be an NPC in a standard role playing game. Hysterical stuff, but not for the faint of heart (or those under 18, for that matter). Read on, Adventurer!

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Clueless |\|00b Rode the Railgun.... Jim Lileks sets up an interesting thought experiment today about Unreal Tournament and FPS games in general over on The Bleat. Interesting concept, and even more interesting is thinking about a late middle-aged man talking like that. I'm considered an "old man" in this industry, but he's quite a bit my senior. He gives it his inimmitable style, though.

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Top 11 Role Playing Game Office Supplies... A friend of mine sent me this link, and I giggled latte all over my keyboard again. 11. Striped Tie of Resist Management 10. Mouse of Negate Firewall 9. Large Potion of Replenish Toner 8. Blinking Hub of Brilliance 7. Rusty Wand of Postpone Deadline 6. Potion of Manager Detection 5. Amulet of Blame Reflection 4. Ring of Pager Control 3.

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They're backkkkkkk..... Several games have crawled back out of their dusty slots in the entertainment center and into the consoles recently. Morrowind Elder Scrolls III - we're trying for the shortest possible straight line between naming your character and defeating Umbra. Current record: 11 days of game time. Metal Gear Solid II: Sons of Liberty - we got the bandana and other stuff, but

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You know you're old when..... You see your life flash before your eyes reading a comic. Scott Kurtz over on PVP had this to say about adult gamers. Make sure you read the last frame out loud to yourself - if you don't get it, you're too young. ;)

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My Favorite Games... If I had to choose 10 from the games that I play over and over and over, it would be.... (in order from eldest to newest) Tetris (Arcade) The original and still the greatest. And who can forget that really bad pseudo-Russian music midi to that background of St. Basil's? Hogan's Alley (Arcade) Shoot the gangsters, not the civilians! I don't even want to know how many

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Final Fantasy X-2 The kids and I just finished Final Fantasy X-2 for the first time. Wow. That's all I have to say right now. Wow. I imagine I'll have another 2000 or so other words for Gamerdad later. ;)

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Name that Game For those who think they've got the stuff, here's a little challenge for you. Name that Game displays screenshots from games on every console and of just about every vintage, and you get points by being able to identify them. Some are easy, and some are very hard. Go see what you're score is.

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Genre Glossary: What the heck is an RPG? Originally posted on Grrlgamer There are many games out there, and they are very different. How do you pick and choose what you would like? Reading reviews and game boxes, you quickly realize there is a whole language they speak. There are a lot of clues there to help you, if you know the code. Using categories to find games can often be confusing. Do

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Online Games: Eight-bit madness is back Trogdor: If you've never been to Homestarrunner and been exposed to Strongbad, well you're in for ... well, you're in for something. Among the treasures of silliness is their games section, which is full of such classics as "Awexome Cross" and "Strongbad Libs". This is where you find the legendary "Trogdor", who is Burninating the countryside and

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Adventuring Home When did we turn even our dreams inside? We all look back with a certain nostalgia at the summer afternoons of our childhood, biking off into the woods or off to the park with our buddies to play until Mom's call drifted across the way to bring us home for dinner. In today's protective times, we can't do that. Our children are not allowed even a tiny fraction of the freedoms

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Futurama for Xbox, PS2 Show canceled, but not forgotten... Originally posted on Gamerdad. Professor Farnsworth has sold Planet Express to Mom, unfortunately giving her a majority share of the entire Earth. Early indications are she isn't going to be a laissez-faire type of leader. Our cel-shaded heroes must stop her robot armies from taking over the world by taking back their ship before it's

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Blog This! can.... well, it can Blog This! Sorry about the recent maunderings about topics that have absolutely nothing at all to do with games. Sigh. Blogger has this really cool little tool for adding entries to your blogs without going through all the usual goat-rodeo. Very cool idea, but the damned thing is buggier than a carton of ladybugs. That, coupled with my sleep deprivation,

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The MomGamer meets Gamerdad.com Big news! The Momgamer has joined the contributors of Gamerdad. That just means more MomGamer goodness to go 'round. Besides this site, you can see the MomGamer on Grrlgamer, and weekly on Gamerdad. Coming Attractions: Tomb Raider: Angel of Darkness hits Grrlgamer, and we weigh in on Kingdom Hearts and the wonders of Krull for the Gamerdad next week. I

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Been panting at screenshots and waiting ever-so-patiently for the disks, and it's almost time! To help celebrate the release of SSX 3 in October, we dredged around in the archives and found my original review of Tricky. SSX Tricky It's TRICKY to rock around.... Publisher: Electronic Arts Developer: EA Canada ESRB Rating: E Reviewed Platforms: Xbox, PS2 I nearly bought a PS2 of my own just

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Truth and Reconciliation posts Halo II Voice Outtakes Just can't wait for it, can we. Well, for anyone who is just wibbling in place over this, take a wander over to Truth and Reconciliation for all the news that's fit to post about Halo II. While you're there, feast your ears on these new outtakes from Halo II. A lot of them are from the work done to make the E3 demo. Don't miss the top

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Rayman 3: Hoodlum Havoc Saving the world with a funky disco beat! Publisher: UbiSoft Developer: UbiSoft ESRB Rating: E Previewed Platforms: Xbox, PS2 As an aficionado of the weird, I have spent quite a bit of time with our hero in his previous two engagements. I have a soft spot for games with more character than sense. Rayman 3 carries on with this proud tradition. I mean, the guy has no

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Testing, one...two...three Been a lot of codebase work here, and a lot of playing. That's the interesting stuff about reivewing games - the time eating aspects of it. A movie reviewer invests two or three hours on his cushy seat and sticky floor and then he goes out and churns out a thousand words or so. To properly review a game you have to complete it at least once. With some games, that

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X2: Wolverine’s Revenge Want to Fly to England with a Bongo Bat Publisher: Activision Developer: GenePool Software ESRB Rating: T Reviewed Platforms: Xbox, PS2 I heard this one was coming down the pike last year, and thought, “Yeah! I’m on that one like white on rice!” I love the X-men in general and Wolverine in particular. The preview buzz looked dynamite. Then I got my own lacquered

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The Hulk Smash and Dash in a Big Way Publisher: Universal Interactive Developer: Vivendi Universal, Radical ESRB Rating: T Reviewed Platform: Xbox First off, I do want to give Radical and Vivendi two thumbs WAY WAY up for the development. After the debacle that was the X2: Wolverine's Revenge engine, I was a little apprehensive as I sat there controller in hand staring at the really

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There is more than one gamer in my house! I have a gripe about a lot of games. There is more than one gamer in my household, and we all want to have the same gaming experience. However, many games do not address the issue of multiple game sessions, and they don't give a player any good way to break their time up easily. To some people it may seem like a silly issue but if you have to deal with

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HELLO WORLD! This is a test of the MomGamer system. This is only a test. If this was a real entry, you would see great game reviews. BEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEPPPPPPPPPPPPPP!

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