fact or fiction
Is it fact or merely fiction? Fact or Fiction explores the myths and beliefs we hold about the gaming universe and its virtual inhabitants.
Gamer
CHAPTER 1 She finished. The last line of code to her video game was completed. Excitement ran through her. This was it. This is the video game to end all video games. Now it just needed to be played; to work out the kinks.
Miranda ForanPublished 3 years ago in GamersHead Games
It was another normal day, or so I thought. I packed my bag as the bell rang and rushed outside only to find myself lying unconscious in the street.
Death Hand
People pick games of chance every day. Just waking up in the morning can be a gamble. A wheel of life spins for all of us and we hope that each spin lands on fortune.
Jana TrudellPublished 3 years ago in GamersThe CIA Monitors and Analyzes My Bejeweled Gaming Activity
I always suspected they were watching, as my frequent and fevered Bejeweled Blitz sessions routinely push the expected limits of gem-chasing intensity. Where newbie and casually mainstream players swipe at painfully obvious three-tile matches, aimlessly passing the hours of their simple lives, CIA analysis of my historic (and continuing) gameplay clearly demonstrates an uncanny propensity for setting up powerful three-plus-gem matches, exploding the board into impossibly endless cascades and prompting unparalleled, nonstop deep-voiced adulation from the game’s narrator.
Little Black Book
I was walking home from work one evening; I came across something that looked like someone had lost their wallet. It didn't take me long to realize later that it was a little black book. I seriously wanted to return the little black book back to the owner, but I had no successful luck for weeks.
Theresa EvansPublished 3 years ago in GamersBitcoin Origins
Bitcoin. It’s February 2021 and on the forefront of everyone’s mind as it trades at over $48,000 USD per 1 Bitcoin. My first encounter with Bitcoin was as a young gamer. I was 16, and mildly financially conscious as you’d expect a 16-year-old undergraduate student to be without any real concept of budgeting or money in 2009. At the time, Bitcoin was written off as a joke – a kind of worthless entity only pale nerds and geeky gamers cared about. Monopoly money. A fleeting interest due to the amount of time required to mine Bitcoin – two weeks for 2 Bitcoin for some. I’ll share – I had entered a game that had a bitcoin bonus of 30 Bitcoins associated with it just because, free money. I’m embarrassed to admit that with Bitcoin at its current value, I downloaded a VPN from Norton just to figure out if I could find it. Sadly, it is woefully lost to me – good thing I made it through school and made something of myself. I do enjoy my career, but I’ve long missed gaming.
There Is Reportedly A 'Star Wars: Knights Of The Old Republic' In Development, But It Isn't From EA Or Bioware
When it comes to Star Wars video games, one that many fans want to see have a resurgence, whether it be in the form of a video game remake or an adaptation for film or television, is 2003's Knights of the Old Republic. Taking place nearly 4,000 years before the films, this game spawned a sequel video game, an MMORPG franchise, a comic series, and some novels. The names of some of the game's characters, especially the Sith, have become staples of Star Wars lore conversations. The game was so well received that some of those who played it express that they want to see some sort of return to it in our modern era, perhaps even a remake that would be considered canon instead of Legends. Some bits of the lore have even made their way into the animated series Star Wars Rebels and the visual dictionary for Star Wars: Episode IX: The Rise of Skywalker.
Culture SlatePublished 3 years ago in GamersMale Toxicity in Video Games
Video games - and gamers in general - often receive a bad reputation that is largely unwarranted. As being violent - easily counterracted with such games as Thief, which espouses a non-violent approach, or Mario Kart, or Final Fantasy, which is often characterized with more video than actual game play these days .
Allison CostaPublished 3 years ago in GamersPixelated Vs. Realistic
In a generation of out of this world effects and over the top graphics, it is hard to look back at the 2D, pixelated game styles that existed in the past. Also an age of reboots, remasters, remakes, and retries, it's hard to find an original game anymore. The golden era of games was the time where you had to go to an arcade and spend quarters to move a little pixel car going two frames per second, jumping for joy when you crossed the checkered finish line. With the invention of the internet, consoles, gaming computers, mobile devices, and the like, we have the arcade in the comfort of our own homes and can bring them anywhere with us. Anyone can be a gamer, whether you play a match-three candy game, throw perturbed birds across a screen at little green pigs, shoot gory zombies with crossbows, or lead a raid into the underworld. Games are more prevalent and gamers are more accepted in today's society. So who is to say what the best games are? If everyone can be a gamer wouldn't it be in the eye(or hand) of the beholder? There is nothing realistic about wielding a diamond pickaxe, expecting it to break cobblestone, or being in a victorious raid to only do a stupid dance that becomes a worldwide meme. But in an effort to escape the real-life world, sometimes pixels and unrealistic expectations are more appealing. Some like to play games that they know aren't real and they don't have to follow the rules of real life, like merging dragons or winning at slots. Others want to feel like warriors or heroes, taking up guns and baseball bats to take on villains or monsters. Some enjoy being scared and want to go into a house that looks real while others just want to be jump scared by talking animatronic teddy bears. It all comes down to taste and preference. There are so many types of games, so many gaming platforms that one could spend an entire lifetime trying to play them all and still not even scratch the surface. To define the 'best' game, one must first define what a 'game' really is. In order to know what a 'gamer' is, you need to know what qualifies as the games they are playing. If you pick up a phone and download an app so you can waste time in between meetings or if you pick up a controller and sit in front of a tv screen for hours, you are considered a gamer. Why? Because you are playing a game. Something that gets our minds off of our real-life if even for a moment. It's all just pixels on a screen, whether it looks real or clearly like colors and blocks on a background, it's all just moving pictures that entertain us. So to answer the question, what type of games are better? I don't know. You tell me.
Are videogames easier now or did we just grow up?
I have been an avid gamer since I can even remember. My first game was Sonic the Hedgehog 2, played through an emulator on my father's old computer. It was 1998 and I was 5-years-old, at that time, I was only there because of how good it looked to me. All the colours, the sparkles and how fast you could go. I didn't care for the rings or how many times I could beat Eggman's evil creations.
Priscila M.PPublished 4 years ago in GamersUbisoft Montreal hostage situation
Ubisoft Montreal is responsible for some of the defining games of the past few generations Assassins creed, Rainbow Six Siege, Far Cry and the innovative but not quite successful For honor (which I loved)
HeyMandrewPublished 4 years ago in GamersXbox Series X “smoking” is fake
As always, the internet is full of conspiracy theories and rumours about the Xbox Series X overheating - but now that consumers have their hands on the console, this time we're getting some dubious video footage claiming the new Xbox is (quite literally) smoking hot. At least two videos appear to show "smoke" rising from the top of the Xbox Series X, and are now being widely shared around the internet.
Walter WilliamsPublished 4 years ago in Gamers