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I understand it produces dopamine responses. Everything does. But this does not change the fact that it is not comparable with chemical withdrawl. Cessation of a gaming habit will not kill you, where as quitting even common drugs too abruptly and without medical support can. It behooves us to be...

Another good tip for beginners is to make sure you are using your time in the mines effectively. I know a lot of players who continue to use stone tools even when they have a base set up and well stocked! Switching to iron tools dramatically increases your take-home load while decreasing the...

You have to figure that the slightly arched, upright position of current "ergonomic" chairs puts basically the same stresses on your discs and musculature that standing does. While no sitting position will ever reduce the need to get up and move around as we are naturally built to do, reclining...

One of the best tips I can give is to get your wheat garden started asap. Life becomes so much easier when you have enough food to sustain you and grow a population of animals to feed off of. It sounds really basic but I see people dying on my server all the time when they're new because they're...

I used to rage quit from Black Ops 2 all the time. I got to sick of crappy kills. People would just pop around corners and spray aimlessly and you'd get popped in transit. The worst was when their broken lag compensation code was in-play and you get killed when no one is around. I'd get so mad...

Aeris dies. There...I said it. But no, that was one of the craziest death scenes I've ever experienced in a game. I was a kid when that game came out and narratives like that weren't very common. They spent a huge amount of time building up her character and taking you through scenes designed...

I don't particularly like mobile games, especially since most of them are monetized and I just have a moral objection to having ads flashed at me every five seconds. That said, I have been known to spend some time playing Jetpack Joy-Ride. It's about an institutionalized kid who breaks out of a...

A favorite of mine is an older flash game called Dice Wars. It's kind of a streamlined version of Risk in which you roll dive to take over territory. When you butt up against someone else's territory, you can roll against them. Whoever rolls the highest number wins. Dice are handed out at the...

I have to disagree with this. Gaming addiction is mostly just a general obsessive personality disorder. It absolutely is not comparable to chemical addiction and the ravages it causes on the body. Sure, sitting around isn't good for you, but it's not actively bad for you either. You only have to...

The over-night hours are my favorite time to play. No one's bothering you, no chores to get done. It's the perfect time to grab a controller and go to town. It's a different demographic, too, who plays in those hours. It tends to be people who are really dedicated so you end up having to rise to...

The best part is they will be having fun in a way that teaches them not to fear technology. It will help educate them and promote more enthusiasm to explore the strange world of gadgetry we live in today. I've known people who wouldn't even want to pick up a controller who, when they finally...

There are lots of new studies that suggest we've got ergonomics wrong. More and more you're hearing that he best long-term position to be in is slightly reclined so any office chair which offers you that option may be a superior choice for you over your standard office chair; even one of these...

Yeah I had to look up his name too because of confusion with Patchwerk. I'll never forget all the fun of downing him with bunches of people waiting in the town square to hear "Stitches in on the road!". That type of emergent gameplay was much more common in old WoW than it is now. The same sort...

I know this will be controversial, but yes. I have a strong distaste for the "power brokers" in our ranks; the type of people who make purchase decisions based strictly on the on-paper specs of a console and think raw power is the only metric by which you weigh quality. That type of mentality is...

Well remember that older folks' eyes aren't as good at tracking motion so you don't want to throw them into anything too twitchy. Also keep in mind that their hands are probably not as adjustable as yours. Aches and pains just go along with getting older, along with the routine "technophobia"...

I have no choice but to be skeptical. I am a long time Call of Duty player and I have exactly zero confidence that the broken net code inherent to this franchise's game engines has yet been fixed. Activision has routinely refused to even address the issue even when the broken code was...

My all time favorite shooter is probably Perfect Dark. I loved the coop gameplay. The innovative weapons and early example of customizable bots made multiplayer a blast. The mixture of creepiness and humor the alien lent was, well, perfect! I have always been a fan of games who really let you...

I generally regard any further expenditure a company offers for a game to be anti-consumerist. Even in free to play games I find developers rarely keep these transactions to strictly aesthetic offerings. Usually you have to make purchases to make the game playable. If the game had simply been...

I use my living room recliner. Gaming chairs are mostly tacky, overly-expensive furniture which usually are not constructed very soundly and who feature unnecessary additions. Who really needs poor quality speakers int he headrest? You can get better quality surround sound systems from Wal-Mart...

For me it's a question of software development. I'll go where ever the novel game design is, regardless of the hardware. I grew up with the Atari 2600 and NES. I know immersive gameplay has little to do with hardware power so there's no advantage consoles have that handhelds do not in most...