A Golden DucatGaming has undoubtedly been one of the great joys of my life. It has been with me from the time I was little and got my first Nintendo ' ¦'
A Golden Ducat After months of waiting, calling and annoying big box electronic store employees, I finally caught wind of a shipment of Xbox 360s headed for Best Buy out ' ¦'
A Golden Ducat In a game review or preview, the author tries to describe certain elements of the game to the reader assuming they know a bit about the subject. ' ¦'
Dragon Quest VIII\ is an RPG. That about sums it up. Everything people love or hate about the genre is prevalent in this title. Enormous over-world? Check. Leveling up? Check. ' ¦'
With games like 'Far Cry,' 'F.E.A.R.' and of course 'Half-Life 2' doing so much for the first-person shooter genre, it is easy to forget the true pioneers. The following games ' ¦'
This column runs every other week in the Arts section of the Daily Cardinal, but are video games really art? My editors seem to think so. And I believe that ' ¦'
The holiday season is a time for giving. But to be honest, most of us would rather receive. So give or take, to yourself or others, these are the essentials for the gamer in your life this year.
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Every time a new game gets a good review, the reviewer always seems to mention that the game 'revived a genre' or 'reinvented' something. These statements are both absurd and true. What these games really did was try something new and got it to work, something games don't try enough of these days. One can only circle-strafe and shoot Nazis so many times before it becomes tiresome. Today, games suffer from a lack of creativity, so when one breaks out a little bit we tend to notice.
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