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10.19.2009 10:00 am

Are pink game gadgets sexist, silly, or neither?

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

If you’re a girl, does that mean you like pink things?

And if you like pink things, does that make you a girl?

Game Guy has wondered about this lately since a pink video game modification for an Xbox 360 controller, revealed…

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09.23.2009 9:30 am

Are there too many ‘white people’ in video games?

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

In the real world, Americans have tried over the years, with mixed success, to extend rights and respect to citizens of all races and colors.

In the world of gaming fantasy, the matter of diversity appears moot.

So says a survey of…

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08.23.2009 5:33 am

Video gamers: fat, sad, addicted and doomed

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Gamers might as well take that last step off the ledge.

Study findings from the Centers from Disease Control and Prevention in the United States and the University of Adelaide in Australia suggest people who play games frequently have personality problems, an addiction,…

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08.22.2009 1:28 pm

A place to go for gaming addiction

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Do you park in front of a game console until day and night are almost indistinguishable? Is it easier to describe the Little Sisters in “BioShock” than your own children?

Then maybe you need the reStart Internet Addiction Recovery Program, a…

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07.24.2009 12:19 pm

MySpace admits defeat to Facebook, will become a gaming platform

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

MySpace, the once-hot, now-not social networking site, will undergo a face-lift in response to Facebook and Twitter eroding its audience.

Owner News Corp. plans to turn the site into a gaming venue, one of the company’s executives told news services.

Jonathan Miller told…

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06.14.2009 9:01 pm

Take two video games and call me in the morning

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Video games have goten a bad rap as time-wasters, brain-drainers, thumb-wreckers, the jagged shards that are rending the fabric of our society.

Game Guy thinks it’s the word “game” that provokes such ill will. Nobody gives chess, checkers or canasta the…

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05.01.2009 11:13 pm

A list of strange gaming incidents

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Game Guy questions the veracity of these incidents, but they constitute good Friday night, kill-some-time-while-waiting-for-your-date-to-get-ready enjoyment.

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05.01.2009 12:46 pm

Salaries are rising in the gaming industry, survey shows

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

It’s a good time to be established in gaming design and development, according to a salary study released by Game Developer magazine.

Average salaries went up to $79,000 from $74,000 a year earlier, the annual survey says, with programmers doing the best at…

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04.21.2009 11:38 am

Video game addiction study needs more research

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

If a just-released study by Iowa State University and the National Institute on Media and the Family is accurate, then I’m a video game addict — just like the 30 million or so other American children and teens ages 8 to…

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04.20.2009 10:51 am

Where there’s a Will, there’s a whine

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

amers have taken a lot of body blows over time — attacks on their maturity, their character, their looks — because people have problems believing that anyone who plays video games can be a serious-thinking person at the same time.

It’s…

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