The GamerTag Series Part 2: Achievement Counselors
19th May 2012 - The Gaming Update "GamerTag Series" examines various aspects of gamer identity online by exploring issues that are connected with and relate to the social side of life as an online gamer. In Part 1: Trends in Gamer Identity we examined the increasingly popular field of Persona Designers; consultants hired by gamers to create and packag.. Read More.
Hitman: Sniper Challenge First Impressions
11th May 2012 - Hitman: Sniper Challenge -- First Impressions The announcement this week (Square Enix Announces Hitman: Sniper Challenge, GU 10 May 2012) that gamers who purchase Hitman:Absolution as a pre-order from game retailer GameStop would receive a code for their version to download a special related mini-game called Hitman: Sniper Challenge .. Read More.
The Anger in DLC End-of-Life
24th Apr 2012 - To the average cup-half-full gamer, Downloadable Content (DLC) is a good way to provide continued support for a video game title following its official release, which secures the place of a game in their current game play rotation list and is thought to promote a more active continuation of support for a title; many gamers believe that .. Read More.
The GamerTag Series -- Part 1: Trends in Gamer Identity
24th Apr 2012 - The GamerTag Series looks at various aspects of gamer identity online by examining issues that are connected to and relate to GamerTags... In Part 1: Trends in Gamer Identity we examine the increasingly popular field of Persona Designers, consultants who are hired to create and package an entire online identity that is part marketin.. Read More.
The Top Ten Most Challenging Xbox 360 Achievements of All Time (So Far)
4th Apr 2012 - Whether you like them or despise them, the introduction of the Achievement System on Microsoft's Xbox 360 added a new level of competition among gamers that almost never was... You read that correctly -- the powers that be at Microsoft came within a hair's breadth of chucking the Achievement System out because they viewed it as a novel.. Read More.
Connecting with Kinect via Kinect Fun Labs
29th Mar 2012 - As the 2012 Gaming Season finally begins to open up, games journalists the world over are pulling out their figurative crystal balls and giving them a good polish as they prepare to begin writing the traditional retrospective looking-back pieces that will put the defining view upon last year's gaming season. We are already seeing some .. Read More.
The Top Ten Video Game Sex Scenes
27th Mar 2012 - With all the controversy and protest over the disappointing ending of Mass Effect 3 mostly behind us, now that BioWare appears to have capitulated (though just how far that capitulation will extend remains to be seen) it makes us proud that pretty much all of the controversy appears to center around how things ended, and not, you know, .. Read More.
EA Planning to Shut Down More Online Game Servers in April
25th Mar 2012 - If you happen to be a member of the gaming community who places a high value in unlocking all of the Achievements and Trophies in the games that you play, the following news is a mixture of good news / bad news -- the good news being that there is still time for you to unlock those illusive last few online Achievements or Trophies befor.. Read More.
Sources Confirm Next Gen Console Launch Order but not Reveal
30th Jan 2012 - It has been a difficult year for reading the future for games journos as conflicting information has been released both officially and unofficially by the Big 3, and all that we can say for certain is that the launch order for the next generation of gaming console will very likely proceed as Wii U followed by the next Xbox, and then the.. Read More.
A History of Achievements
26th Jan 2012 - History is an odd and very human creation that is often malleable, being more the product of how we remember events to have taken place rather than how they actually did take place. There is a phrase to describe that -- it is called "popular history" -- where the more literal sort that is based upon a combination of observation and con.. Read More.
Evaluating Your Mad Gamer Skills
24th Jan 2012 - Pictured above is the professional gamer Johnathan "Fatal1ty" Wendel, widely considered to be the unofficial ambassador for the sport of PC gaming -- though where he stands in the realm of console gaming is fit for speculation... If you were online in the early period of the commercial Internet when the web was still new and seeing a.. Read More.
Following the Scent of Microsoft at E3 2012
22nd Jan 2012 - With apologies in advance to Dr. Theodor Seuss Geisel (AKA Dr. Seuss) . . . --==* Steve Hears a Who? *==-- On the tenth of January, wrapped up in toasty wool, In the heat of the casino, standing by the indoor pool, He was speaking video gaming... and motion controlled toys, Then Steve Ballmer the CEO made a Microsofty noise. Fin.. Read More.
Assassin's Creed: Revelations Easter Egg Hunt
22nd Jan 2012 - It is fair to say that the release of Assassin's Creed: Revelations on November 15th, 2011 was a celebrated event -- though the celebration was somewhat bittersweet due to the fact that Revelations is the final game in the series to feature the popular character of Ezio Auditore da Firenze, who we encounter in Revelations as an old man.. Read More.
The GU Top 10 Celebrity Gamers
20th Jan 2012 - While nobody really knows the origins of and the history behind the phenomenon of the Top Ten List -- it would not surprise us if there are Top Ten Lists mixed in with the Cave Drawings of Neanderthals -- in terms of the Internet and all the hep cats who dwell there, most net'heads consider the efforts of Squire David Michael Letterman.. Read More.
Mr. Bean and not Video Games Responsible for Youth Violence
4th Jan 2012 - "There's a world of difference between truth and facts. Facts can obscure the truth. " Maya Angelou The problem with fact is that a clever person can make it appear to support whatever position they want to make, so when we examine issues and we choose not to deal in fact, but rather in truth, we are taking a more logical path. .. Read More.
The Mystery of the Achievement Panties - Solved
30th Dec 2011 - Being a child of the 1990's the television show Scooby-Doo, Where are You! to this day maintains the position of something of a fixture in which to place the era in the mind. It seems that each decade it is vogue to re-focus on the programs from 20 years before, so the 90's was filled with the 70's -- and I am told that in the 1970's .. Read More.
The Impact of Achievements & Trophies -- Recognition that Motivates
26th Dec 2011 - Life is short, art long, opportunity fleeting, experience treacherous, judgment difficult. Hypocrites Hypocrites (450-339 BC) was an influential Greek philosopher of the fifth century B.C. and the founder of the Hypocritical school of philosophy. He was famous for devoting his entire life to preaching a philosophy of the virtues .. Read More.
Gears of War 3 Wind-Up DLC and Other Stories from the Frontlines
26th Dec 2011 - Every now and then a game will be released that has a deeper presence than at first it seems... Appearances, as they say, can be deceiving, and even when you think you understand the nature of a title and the scope and depth of what it has to offer you as a gamer, they sometimes surprise you like an LOLZ Cat hanging onto the mailman w.. Read More.
The New 360 Dashboard and What it Means for Us
23rd Dec 2011 - "The thing is just hot, and I spent over 100 hours playing with it over Christmas. It's fantastic. And it really draws you in because you get these awards, you meet people, you get into the contests. It's something." Bill Gates on the Xbox 360, CNET Interview, January 2006. The newest version of the Dashboard for the Xbox 360 consol.. Read More.
The Truth Behind the Fanboy and Why They Exist
22nd Dec 2011 - From The Urban Dictionary (http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=fanboi) Fanboi (1) Someone who is hopelessly devoted to something and will like anything associated with their particular thing. (2) Geek Term related to forum users who think a product/company/person can do no wrong. (3) Deliberate misspelling of the wo.. Read More.
