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First Amendment and Video Games

For nearly two decades, elected officials have tried to regulate which video games you can buy, rent and play. Every single time they’ve p

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Reading is Slower on Kindle?

Read on CNN this morning that Kindle and iPad reading are slower than reading a normal book. From the article: It takes longer to read

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Kinect – Destined to Fail?

Kinect Read over on 360 Kombo this blog post by Alex Bader regarding Kinect. Drawing from an interview on Gamasutra, It outlines Microsoft's so

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Used Games = End of Gaming Industry

Rising Used Game Sales Another in a long line of articles on the subject of second-hand or used games over at PC World. This time blog author M

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Extra Lives

Extra Lives From a recent book review at The New York Times: If photographs are “experience captured,” in Susan Sontag’s phrase, then

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Giving Up Is How You Win

Danger in Plain Sight Another interesting opinion piece by Thomas Friedman over at the NY Times. As with many of his recent articles, Friedman

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