By DukeSkath on Wednesday, 13th July, 2016 This is an excerpt from my new book MindWipe: Dealing with Stress, Anger, and Ego. In some ways, the idea of playing video games mindfully is absurd. How can you be here now when you’re deliberately escaping into a virtual... 1
Read Now!By DukeSkath on Monday, 27th August, 2012 These days respectable video-game reviewers are not supposed to enjoy Call of Duty. If you want to be taken seriously as a mature fan of video games, you must disdain competitive multiplayer and bemoan the ubiquity of first-person shooters. But... 14
Read Now!By DukeSkath on Friday, 17th December, 2010 Jessi Slaughter was an 11-year-old girl when she first rose to internet fame through the following video, which she posted on a fansite for the band Blood on the Dancefloor. Note the vulgar language and violent bravado. When the video... 9
Read Now!By DukeSkath on Tuesday, 21st September, 2010 In an age of high-definition graphics, motion-sensory game controllers, intense FPS shooters, and 3D interactive worlds, it may seem ridiculous to sing the praises of an ancient repetitive text-based game. But I have been a MUD addict for several years,... 8
Read Now!By Surface Lizard on Sunday, 29th August, 2010 Dear readers of the Daily Moralist. There is a virulent plague sweeping our youth, desecrating their fragile sensibilities and turning them into an amoral, rampaging gang of hoodlums screaming for death, drinking human blood and putting harmless cats into wheelie... 5
Read Now!By DukeSkath on Wednesday, 4th August, 2010 NaughtyDog founder Jason Rubin weighed in recently on the future of the industry, and in particular the viability of tremendously-expensive AAA titles. We're entertaining more people in more ways than we've ever done before. But from a profitability standpoint, the... 5
Read Now!By DukeSkath on Wednesday, 23rd June, 2010 Spoiler Warning: This article contains spoilers for the games Red Dead Redemption, Mass Effect, Dragon Age: Origins, and Heavy Rain. Okay, so I've never actually fallen in love with a character from a video game. But I have felt a... 9
Read Now!By DukeSkath on Thursday, 21st January, 2010 A new survey from a UK online retailer has found that 20% of its female respondents have dumped a boyfriend because he spent too much time playing video games or surfing the web. Furthermore, 70 per cent said the gaming... 1
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