The Daily
Left 4 Dead Elevator Glitch
It’s not the witches again, is it?
Team (Rejected) Fortress 2 Poster
The scout is a Yankee.
World of Warcraft Teaches the Wrong Things
What did we learn positively?
Metal Gear Solid’s Kojima: “Maybe I Should Quit Being Japanese”
Maybe you should make a ZOE sequel.
Doom 4 writer revealed
Don’t worry. The release date is still the same.
Street Fighter IV - Ultra Moves Montage
Blanka? REALLY? That’s all you got?
Yahtzee Day - Tomb Raider: Underworld
He does breath when he does a review, right?
Outdated, Not Useless: Five Things to Do With Your Old PC
You cannibals!
Left 4 Dead Patch Released
Now with more zombies than Dead Rising.
Awesome Half-Life 2 PC Mods (Pics)
And in all of them, Gordon STILL doesn’t talk.
Memoirs of a Gamer
Thanks for telling us what we already know.
Hey you, looking at the screen. Perhaps you can provide a definition of a gamer. If your answer is, “one who plays games,” you fail to grasp all that has become synonymous with the term. The stereotypes and the rare. The many and the few. The problematic entities that both nourish and hinder the video game industry.
We’ve all done it. It’s part of the gaming lifestyle, a period in which the newb is separated from the gamer, a rite of passage. I’m talking, of course, about the long-winded gaming bender. Whether running a 10-hour online session of Call of Duty or the pressure of developing and sustaining a 20-year championship caliber NCAA football team—in which case I’d advocate only using Michigan State—the gamer needs some sort of nourishment to keep their mind clear and focused on the task at hand. The selection of food is as important as the decision of choosing between wielding duel needlers or the gravity hammer in Halo, or spending 5 million in cap space on the high flying left winger or the stay at home defender in the off-season in NHL 08. The wrong choice can be disastrous.
Why would you ever want to identify yourself as a hardcore gamer? It is a common practice for people to identify themselves by what they associate themselves with. People call themselves writers, musicians, programmers, artists and any number of other titles, but why would anyone consider themselves a gamer? In all of the above examples, people are identified by what they produce rather than something they consume. People don’t refer to themselves as ‘televisioners,’ ‘filmers’ or even as ‘readers’ with any regularity, so why the hell do we have ‘gamers?’