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Calling all Gamers: Help a Grad Student Out!


PlayersHandbook8CoverMiddle Tennessee State University grad student Michelle Drury needs your help. She’s currently collecting data as part of a study on gamers of all sorts, and needs a lot of participants to make it a success. Whether your passion is MMORPGs, tabletop roleplaying or collectible card games, Drury would really appreciate your participation.

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SF & Fantasy

New Hitman novel coming in 2012!


Hitman-Absolution-Agent-47Del Rey has announced a second novel based on the Hitman video game series from Io Interactive™. HITMAN: DAMNATION will be written by author Raymond Benson and will release in North America in Summer 2012.

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Gaming

50 Page Fridays: William C. Dietz


50 Page Fridays: William C. Dietz

This week’s excerpt comes from MASS EFFECT: DECEPTION. Click Read more if you hate when pesky sentient machines try to kill you.

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Gaming

Rage Game Guide: A Look Behind the Scenes


Rage Game Guide: A Look Behind the Scenes

David Knight has been an avid gamer since the days of the Atari 2600 and Commodore 64. His first foray into the gaming industry came in 1995, as a scenario designer for SSI’s WWII strategy game Steel Panthers. Since then he’s written more than a dozen gaming guides — and id Software’s Rage is his [...]

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Suvudu

Prima Games: How to Survive ‘Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine’


Prima Games: How to Survive ‘Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine’

Tomorrow, gamers will feel the thunder as Warhammer 40,000: Space Marine makes landfall on consoles throughout North America. As Captain Titus, one of the Empire’s elite Space Marines, players bring destruction to humanity’s enemies with chainswords, boltguns and other powerful weapons in a smoldering, war-torn landscape.
Gamers who love an all-out brawl with plenty of [...]

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Star Wars

Completely Awesome Mod Takes ‘Modern Warfare’ to the World of ‘Star Wars’


starwarsgalacticwarfareA couple of ambitious Star Wars fans have taken their love for the saga to a new level by releasing a mod that transforms the classic first person shooter Call of Duty: Modern Warfare into an all-out battle between Rebel and Imperial forces.

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Gaming

Inspirations for Modern Video Game Storytelling, by Eric Nylund


Inspirations for Modern Video Game Storytelling, by Eric Nylund

Eric Nylund is the director of narrative design for Microsoft Studios. He has worked on dozens of video games, and has been involved in two game console launches, and most recently Kinect. Today, Eric shares with us the early inspirations that got him passionate about video games.
I guess like so many other kids I [...]

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Graphic Novels & Manga

Gene Luen Yang’s ‘Level Up’ a Tale of Video Games and Family Obligations


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Dennis Ouyang’s immigrant parents raised him to become a gastroenterologist, and he’s devoted his life to his studies in an effort to win the approval of his emotionally distant father. His only outlet is playing video games – something his parents strongly disapprove of as a distraction from his “destiny”.

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Graphic Novels & Manga

Exclusive: Jerry Holkins on ‘Penny Arcade’ Volume Seven: ‘Be Good, Little Puppy’


Exclusive: Jerry Holkins on ‘Penny Arcade’ Volume Seven: ‘Be Good, Little Puppy’

Be Good, Little Puppy is the seventh volume collecting the award winning webcomic Penny Arcade, a hilarious ongoing series chronicling the misadventures and musings of creators Mike Krahulik and Jerry Holkins’ alter-egos John “Gabe” Gabriel and Tycho Brah. Gabe and Tycho both navigate and participate in the gamer subculture, providing colorful commentary and laughs alike [...]

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SF & Fantasy

An Interview with Ernest Cline, Author, ‘Ready Player One’


An Interview with Ernest Cline, Author, ‘Ready Player One’

Fanboys screenwriter and novelist Ernest Cline recently shared a few thoughts about his new book Ready Player One: a hilarious but thrilling mash-up of geeky obsessions and eighties pop culture described by New York Times bestselling author John Scalzi (Old Man’s War) as “A nerdgasm…imagine Dungeons and Dragons and an 80s video arcade made hot, [...]

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