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Will OnLive Be The Next Phase Of Video Gaming?

As I keep reading about OnLive, and watch videos of it in action I think back to a very insightful quote: "No matter what the level of your ability, you have more potential than you can ever develop in a lifetime.” - James T Mccay

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EGM, A Legend Fades Into The Night

I fear that as we tread further into the digital age we’ll be seeing more headlines like this for magazine publications. To quote Egon, from the Ghostbusters, “Print is Dead”. As information becomes available faster, and faster over the internet most video game magazines have  been made obsolete. The ones that are still around are [...]

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Use Nvidia? Valve has free games for you! Use ATI? Free games too!

If you've got some bastardized desktop with both ATI and Nvidia installed then you've just been hit by two branches of the lucky tree.  Nvidia (my preferred brand) offers a bit more in the way of free games, but ATI has some stuff as well.

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Dice Bag – the iPod touch/iPhone app for the tabletop gamer

Here's my new favorite app - available free through the app store.  Dice Bag! It's nice, simple, sharp looking and a lot of fun to show off to other gamers.

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A Totally New Way to Role-Play – The Window

These are the three precepts to a Window game: "Everything about a Window character is described with adjectives rather than numbers." "It is the actor's responsibility to play their role realistically." "A good story is the central goal.”

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6 reasons why PC gaming is better than Console gaming is better than PC gaming

Until some sort of convergence happens, where computers become small enough that a good gaming rig can be had in a small, quiet, cool little box there will always be a war between consoles and PCs when it comes to gaming.

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Traditional Role Playing Games – are they succumbing to MMORPGS?

Once upon a time, gaming was sacred. It was a time to spend with like minded folk sitting around drinking Mountain Dew and eating Doritos, laughing, talking, disemboweling a goblin or two, and just having fun. MMORPGs have taken a lot of that away. Now you play alone, or with strangers. Unless you’re lucky enough to chance upon your real life friends on the same server.

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eVGA’s GTX 260 (896 megs of superclocked video goodness) relatively cheap

eVGA's GTX 260 video card is now available from NewEgg at the low, low price of $279.99.  I just happen to have here a mail in rebate form (pdf) that will also get you $30 off of that price.  So if you can wait for the rebate to process your total cost will have been $249.00.  But wait, there's more!  Use coupon code VGA724X25 and chop another $25 off of the price.  Now you're talking at $225.  You've got to buy this by the 31st of July to take advantage of the mail in rebate.

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Morning game deals – SimCity and Spiderman plus a keyboard

Grab yourself a new gaming keyboard, the SimCity Box and Spiderman: Friend or Foe for the Wii in this morning's deals.

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World of Warcraft for old fogies

Gus over at GiantRealm has an easy to read, insightful and. . . and. . . what was I talking about?  Oh yeah, and informitive article on how to survive and thrive in WoW if you’re over 30, have kids and don’t want to dedicate your life to doritos, pasty skin and undead elves.  Check [...]

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