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  • PCs killed the console star

    PCs killed the console star

    An interesting blog post by Rahul Sood (founder of Voodoo PC) ponders the implications of a rumored project that Microsoft is rumored to have canceled, rumor has it. Apparently, Microsoft was working on cross platform gaming that would allow PC players to take on their...

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  • Tatem Games Q&A: Crafting Carnivores

    Tatem Games Q&A: Crafting Carnivores

    A week or two ago, I reviewed an impressive game for the iPhone – Carnivores: Dinosaur Hunter. Recently, I had a chance to pester the developers of said game with some questions. The world of mobile gaming is exploding, and the folks at Tatem Games...

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  • Shocking Persuasion: Bioshock as a rhetorical artifact

    Shocking Persuasion: Bioshock as a rhetorical artifact

    I took a class on the history and theory of rhetoric at Whitworth University during the Spring 2010 term. The major project for the class was a paper examining a ‘rhetorical artifact’ – which is basically anything that is an attempt to persuade, whether it...

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  • Five reasons Steam on the Mac will change the world

    Five reasons Steam on the Mac will change the world

    By now most of you are aware that Steam will soon be getting a bite out of Apple. (Ok so that clever play on words isn’t as brilliant as I was hoping it would be, but let’s just move on.) A few weeks ago, Valve...

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  • Gamers’ top questions answered

    Gamers’ top questions answered

    Here’s an interesting piece submitted to me by a rep from Ask.com. There are quite clearly an inordinate number of noobs out there asking questions, so I’ve decided to run this as my small way of battling ignorance on the interwebz. Any questions missed? Leave...

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  • April’s Foolishness

    April’s Foolishness

    April Fool’s is a time-honored tradition in the gaming world. Huge corporations drop their professional veneers for a day and let out all that pent up creativity by unleashing devilishly clever pranks on an unsuspecting world. It’s good times, for sure. Here’s some links to...

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  • New Year, New Tech

    New Year, New Tech

    As you are all staggeringly tired of hearing, it’s a new year. And with a new year comes new things. New classes, new projects, new resolutions, new games…and new techie gadgets to make them cooler. In this Duality exclusive, take a gander at some upcoming...

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  • The Top 6 disappointing games of 2010

    The Top 6 disappointing games of 2010

    A new year is upon us, and that means we all have a fresh 365 days to spend hiking, exercising, looking at birds, and hugging trees. Alternatively, you could join me in spending 12 months LOLing at the n00bs outside and enjoy some gaming excellence.

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  • The Legendary Duality Game of the Year Awards

    The Legendary Duality Game of the Year Awards

    Welcome, faithful readers, to the first annual Duality Game of the Year Award ceremony. These awards are prestigious and filled with laud. I expect them to become legendary and widely respected any day now. Careers will be affirmed, hearts will be broken, and most importantly...

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  • Games for your wish list

    Games for your wish list

    Christmas 2009 is admittedly a little sparse in terms of new releases. Modern Warfare 2 scared most publishers into next year, leaving us without much to be playing. Fear not, however. Your Christmas wish list need not be empty. There’s still plenty to be jolly...

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  • Dumb game ideas…that worked

    Dumb game ideas…that worked

    Throughout history, man has had ideas. Some of these ideas have been strikingly good, such as the wheel, fire, popcorn, and the entire Hardy Boys series. Others, sadly, have not been so good. Social laws dictate that most bad ideas will naturally die out. Ideas...

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  • Modern Warfare 2 goes too far

    Modern Warfare 2 goes too far

    While many controversies over objectionable game content are blown severely out of proportion, recently leaked footage of Activision’s upcoming “Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare 2″ indicates that this time, the moral outrage might be justified. Some background. If, by chance, you were kidnapped by...

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  • Dragon Age: Origins – The Version Woes

    Dragon Age: Origins – The Version Woes

    Those of you out there who aren’t total n00bs at paying attention know that Dragon Age: Origins is being released next week.  Bioware’s latest epic is showing all the signs of a modern classic: Dragons, swords, rich characters, dragons, intense combat, robust story, and dragons....

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  • iTouch, Therefore I Game

    iTouch, Therefore I Game

    So I had a birthday recently, and found myself the fortunate recipient of an iPod Touch. Besides the fringe benefits of no longer feeling technologically inadequate, I’ve been pleasantly surprised to find that the device is quite the respectable gaming platform. And I’m not just...

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  • Pirates, File-Sharing, and the End of All Joy and Happiness

    Pirates, File-Sharing, and the End of All Joy and Happiness

    So let’s just get this out in the open. I’m a pirate hater. I’ve been known to launch into verbal tirades when confronted with those nefarious types who download illegally. I’ve even killed my share of them by tracking them down and firing explosive computer viruses to their IP addresses.

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