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Month: September 2012

  • My Skyrim Puppy and Other Video Game Pets

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    Maybe it was those Tamagotchi pets I had when I was a kid, but I just love having a pet in a video game. There’s something so comforting about having a loyal companion by my side to take away some of the stress of battling all those in-game enemies. That’s why I wrote an article about…

  • Are Sandbox Games More “Addictive” Than Linear Games?

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    I like good stories in video games… and vivid characters, and all those rich goodies that make me feel like video games are the equivalent of films and books in making artistic statements and providing emotional impact. For all its size and beauty, Elder Scrolls: Skyrim has pretty much none of these. But last week I started…

  • Michio Kaku on the Science Fiction in Video Games

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    If you’ve never seen GTTV’s series The Science of Games, it’s worth watching to have your mind blown a little bit. In it, host Daniel Kayser interviews theoretical physicist Dr. Michio Kaku about just how feasible the futuristic technology portrayed in video games really is. It’s definitely pop science — all very fun, fluffy and hypothetical — and…