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When I was a kid, I used to think everyone who played games was like me. Myself I always kept my games safe and tidy, the cardboard boxes safely stacked away and never took my anger out on my console (its like self harm, dont do it!). I also experimented with different game types and bought what...

Whilst I've been having to endure the increased loading times in Dawn of War Soulstorm, I've noticed that I'm pretty unproductive in these ever so common time wasters. I seem to spend most loading screens cross armed biting my nails lost in thought, reading the manual for details, or walking...

I know most of you are console players, so i'm going to disturb you by saying I teared up playing World of Warcraft. Now hear me out before you start calling me a 5 year old loot baby. It was the first night of Ahn Qiraj opening and my entire guild had been preparing for months for it. We...

You slash violently Peasant screams for your mercy Recieves 1 damage

I have to admit I was experiencing the exact same situation as you when I started. Stepped into the first area of Neverwinter and got swarmed by hoards of level 1 hitting me for 1 dmg. This was a big problem since I was'nt expecting the game to be throwing generic monster x20 in my general...

Taking your pickyness to a notepad of ideas towards improvement is good! Trying many other games to find likable improvements to a genre is great! Using an editor or SDK to make your funky idea and pulling together like minded helpers is fantastic! Ranting and raving about it in blogs...

Phantasy star online for the dreamcast. This was my first encounter with a real time RPG game before I had even a basic understanding of the internet. I could play my character offline for when the phone line had to be free, or online with loads of other people crazy about discovering the...

No matter what FPS you play, past and present, you can be pretty sure there is a shotgun for the player. But this gun is quite controversial among the opinions of gamers. To some it is prized as their savior and standby for getting through most tough guys and causing cheerfull amputations up...

4 fingered salute here. Can't stretch my pinky for bank notes though, so I came up with the idea to practise stretching my thumb for the green. Took me about 5 seconds to realise Guitar hero really likes green, so back to pinky workouts for me.

As I've gotten older and found myself less willing to shell out my entire wallet for a bunch of wack-a-mole mini games, I'm seeing nintendo as simply a target of age. This is not a negative thing, it's just young people are more experimentative and willing to waste a bit of time to get a little...

A competitive online talk show for xbox live that comes with a breathalyzer accessory. To access most games, you have to "score" high enough on the breathalyzer to filter the men from the boys, before letting you competitivly talk against others on a series of topics, of which the winner is...

HD dvd is still well on sale pretty much everywhere, and has greater awareness than you may think. I recently had to talk my parents out of buying a HD dvd player because they had just bought a "HD tv" and they thought they needed this player to watch said movies on it, since they had to replace...

Refusing to use stealth when you alert an entire base in crysis and there is no other escape other than stealth. I'm suppose to be a super soldier dammit! After playing world of warcraft, I can no longer continue playing game without checking my efficiency - map space covered, ammo left, % done...

The massivly single player just screams social networking and obsessive tinkerer's dream. However with all these promises and scale of things, it may implode and turn into an arcadey experience or an overcomplicated buggy mess with fiddly editing tools. Not to mention the graphics are...

I think risk based MMOs are actually becoming extinct, atleast they are now well forged as a niche, there will always be something to play with risk and loss, just they are no longer the main MMOs. If you want to know if you'd really like to get back into the "old ways", I recommend you suffer...