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Definitely racing games. I don't play them much nowadays, since most of the PC ones are hardware-heavy and aim to achieve a level of detail that my laptop can't even fathom to handle, but I loved Gran Turismo 4 on my PS2. Aside from driving sims, I really like arcade racing games. I loved...

There's an infinity of things you have to take care of in a videogame: graphics, music, UI, level design, engine programming, physics, AI development, testing and bug fixing and so on, and for each of these you have to go through alpha, beta and gold phase. Each is incredibly complicated, to the...

It sounds like a different online play platform altogether, haha. I wonder what it would have been like if they imposed age restrictions (or created different chat rooms based for different age ranges). On PC you can usually choose what servers to go to, so it's harder to run into this kind of...

Action-adventure by far, even better with RPG elements. It's dynamic, engaging and always different because of the freedom it gives both players and developers. It can focus on either components freely, so you can have a major focus on pure gameplay or map wandering or even balance it out. In a...

There are only two types of people: those who have ragequit at least once and dirty liars. I used to ragequit a lot when I was younger, I really had to patience back then. I progressively learned how to deal with frustration (you start to grow thick skin to it after a while), and now it doesn't...

Exactly. Casual gamers are too fleeting an audience to rely on them to support a console for its entire lifetime. And yet, Nintendo's focus on portability and on-the-go local multiplayer seems to suggest they're catering to them once again. A large margin of Nintendo's profit has always come...

I think that kind of battery drain is normal. Mobile data and games consume more power than wi-fi and standard navigation, obviously, so it's normal. How old is your phone and how much does it hold its charge? You could buy a small powerbank and carry it around to solve the issue (still better...

Sounds like quite the setup (and very comfortable, too, haha). I'm not sure about it. What I've heard is that batteries wear out because of how many times you charge them, not because of how long you keep the charger plugged in. Using your phone while it's charging only makes it take more time...

Good point there. I think it also has to do to how we can look at the screen itself and how we have to twist our neck. I play on handheld consoles, too, for instance, but it's still more comfortable to play on the phone to me. Furthermore, phones tend to be a lot lighter, so you can place it...

Yeah, me too. The great thing about Steam is that you can add external titles to the library and access them from it, retaining access to features like Steam Overlay (pretty useful to look stuff online without alt-tabbing your way out, in case the game doesn't handle it well). I do it mostly to...

I don't wear out headphones that much, but sweat and time will inevitably wear out the earpads, but luckily you can buy replacement for that. The last full-on upgrade I did was a year ago, but just because the previous set I had was a cheap 20$ one (and it still managed to last 4 years or so)...

I haven't tried it, but I learned about it when I first downloaded Blender (to supposedly pair it with Unity). What I've heard is that it's pretty basic, too much to develop complex games without major complications later on. It's pretty outdated, too, and it's more resource-heavy than Unity. It...

Wow, that sounds... extreme, to say the least. It's insane to think anyone would react like that for a freaking game. Well, it's also concerning that anyone can find out such personal information and send cops with such ease, but that goes beyond the point. I am against all kinds of censorship...

I really like the website's concept. The bad thing about some companies is that they keep pushing their own launchers (Origin, Uplay, etc) to play their games, so you end up installing 3-4 of them just to play a couple of games. Steam is good enough and it actually provides useful features, so I...

This. I'm not a fan of power creeping consoles either, but you don't need to go to such extent to keep your hardware up to date. As I've said, portability is just a marketing gimmick with which they tried to replicate the boom caused by motion controls of the Wii, and they partially succeded...

I'm kind of the opposite with that: I'll only stop playing until I get sleepy, but the thing is... I never do while I'm on the phone. I've tried to figure out how this is possible, since it happens just while I'm on my smartphone. PC? My eyes will close on me. Any console? I'll drop dead with...

Yeah, that goes without question, I just wanted to point out how videogames specifically, because of how much pressure they put on the reward system, can become addictive. Drugs have a direct influence on body functions that alters their normal behaviour, videogames don't. And you're right in...

It's not a selling point to us aged and informed gamers, but it is to younger ones and families. I personally love it as a feature because I simply prefer to have the screen closer to me, but to them it must be not much more than a marketing gimmick. It's been mentioned a lot in their ads, but...

Yeah, most elders despise gaming and technology as a whole because they see it as some kind of obscure sorcery, but most of them have grown familiar to TVs and are quite fond of them. They probably wouldn't be as hostile towards videogames if they actually tried it. And wow, that's one hardcore...

I agree on the fact that physical backlashes are not as sever as with other addictions, but I wouldn't immediately rule out chemical/biological correlations. It has been proven multiple times that videogames stimulate the production of dopamine, commonly known as the reward hormone. What makes...