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Falling Into Gaming

Meghan Ralph is an Intuitive Healer and Alchemist and runs Soular Radiant in Denver; giving readings, guidance, and remedies to many. Meghan loves gaming as a form of meditation and relaxation, and even recommends it for healing. What is it about fall that makes me want to RPG? I’m serious! I won’t touch my system [...]

 
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Guild Wars 2 caught with its pants down, and I want to play commando in a robe, but we can’t have everything.

I swear to you, today’s post is of utmost importance and seriousness. Part of that seriousness may or may not relate to one’s ability to run about a battlefield, completely and properly covered mind you, but choosing to do so with a refreshing underbreeze whilst sporting a fine robe.. and only a robe.  Pants, after all, are [...]

 
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Worldbuilding, and why we care so much about freaking pandas

Before we dive in, I think a lot of you might assume where this might go; i.e. along the lines of BLIZZARD RUINED EVERYTHING QQQ MY DEAR SWEET AZEROTH CAUGHT THE PANDA BUG AND IT’S A TERMINAL ONE WAY SELL OUT TRIP TO CHINA WHY YOU NO LOVE ME BLIZZARD WHY. Gosh, that felt probably a little too [...]

 
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Growing Up and Guild Wars 2

Today we’re gonna take another trip on the fanboy interstate, and like before, GuildMag will be driving with their fourth Blog Carnival!  ”Five years of waiting for Guild Wars 2” is the topic at hand… five years is a little over one fourth of my existence. So… yeaaaaaaahhh. Naturally I jumped on this opportunity to talk [...]

 
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Q&A with James Portnow from Extra Credits, CEO of Rainmaker Games, Part Two

Last week we had James Portnow from the Extra Credits team (also CEO of Rainmaker Games) answer some questions for us, but, because he actually answered them thoughtfully and constructively (who knew right?!), we split the Q&A into two parts, and today we present the second half!  Here’s a link to the first half if you missed it, with topics such as gamified [...]

 
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Diablo 3 – The 1%

Henry Feng is a PhD student from the Faculty of Health Sciences, The University of Sydney. He is currently investigating the impact of video game play on adolescent social well-being and its relationship with resilience. Being an avid gamer himself, he has a deep interest in all things game-related. The article below is strictly the [...]

 
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My Ideal MMORPG

I’m going to hop on the bandwagon because I feel like I have something important to add to the conversation. I haven’t enjoyed a single player RPG game on a regular basis since I was…14? So, about ::mumblecough:: years ago. But I love playing MMOs as a single player experience. Summed up by Azuriel: But [...]

 
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“Must be nice playing games all day?!”

Todd has worked in the games industry for quite a long time, starting as a Beta Tester waaay back in the olden days of 1996. He then moved on to Silicon Knights where he was a Designer and a Lead Designer working on projects such as Eternal Darkness, Metal Gear Solid: Twin Snakes, and early production of [...]

 
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