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The slick, graphically designed e-zine Ctrl + Alt + Defeat has something to say this month about violence in video games, particularly, within the context of war games.  Unsprisingly, I’m not against it.  I’m in the article starting on page 17 along with several other smart cookies and some lovely photographs. Check it out.

Political opponents of video games suffered a blow this past week as the Supreme Court ruled, 7-2, that California’s law restricting the sale of violent video games to minors was unconstitutional per the First Amendment. This ruling is not surprising to anyone who followed the case and the series of appeals that lead us to…

I mostly write about video games here, but I’m actually a gamer of all stripes, and I spent my past weekend at Origins Game Fair in Columbus.  I played a variety of tabletop RPGs and several card games. That doesn’t mean an in-depth article yet, but it is a statement of intent. I may end…

Photo-heavy entry. You have been warned, if you hit the following jump.  For the pictures, click the small pictures to enlarge. So I returned from E3 in one piece, though with ears ringing from all the new-game face-melting explosive hotness.  Of course, as everyone knows, there is only really one important thing to discuss after…

I’m leaving tomorrow! I’m not the sort of person that really salivates over up-to-the-minute gaming news, so it’s a little unusual, but I couldn’t pass up the chance to go!  I’m going to take in the atmosphere and hopefully see lots of cool people and their cool games.  The official outlets will definitely have the…

I never intended to start playing CityVille. In fact, the reason I started playing it at all is a bit of a long story. Let’s just say, research. Truth is I kind of like it – it’s been my mild game distraction this week, while I haven’t been picking up any of the more recent…

There’s a small controversy surrounding the new PVP shooter, Brink.  The character customization options are really thorough, and you can have a huge variety of different looks for your character… over 102 quadrillion as the developers boast.  That is, as long as you don’t want a female.  Deep, but male-only customization options were also included, recently,…

I’m a teacher of mostly young adults, at the college level.  So education is on my mind a lot. So here’s a thing to watch. (The web site he’s talking about that is a riddle sequence is Notpron. With an embed, you’re bereft of the link as promised, so, there ya go. Odd name for a…

Just a post to mention www.secondtruth.com,  my URL that I wasn’t hosting a lot on currently, now points here. The old blogspot link also still works. Experimenting with a new self-portrait – my hair is long again. This sprite is wearing a black tee as I tend to on my days off. If I get…

The Portal games, of which there are now two, have a mysterious and silent female protagonist. I like her.  Even though we don’t know much about her. I should spoiler-cut the rest of this for politeness’ sake. It spoils everything. So here’s what we don’t know about Chell. Her Full Name Lab Rat, the comic…