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A great little essay Stan Lee wrote for The Atlantic in 2007, that’s just as important today as it was then. 

Good. Employers should be able to fire employees based on their political beliefs, no matter what they are. Political beliefs are a chosen ideology, unlike race or gender.  If your beliefs do not align with a company you work for, go somewhere else. 

Seismic Games is best known for mobile game Marvel Strike Force, (something I had to do a bit of searching around to learn). Having a group of industry veterans with experience working on IP based games will hopefully provide a strong boost for Niantic’s upcoming Harry Potter game as well as Pokemon Go.

Criminals stealing from criminals, trying to steal a game about criminals.

As a kid, I idolized this man. I read Nintendo Power almost religiously. As far as I was concerned, this man was Nintendo. As I got older and read more about him, my perception of him changed somewhat. While I still respect the man, like Steve Jobs, this man built these amazing products by being a ruthless businessman. But despite his business practices, or perhaps because of it, Nintendo created some of the most memorable gaming experiences in my childhood. He put the consumer experience over e

An interesting look at naming conventions in World of Warcraft. Personally, from an early age, I've found myself becoming prejudiced against people whose usernames began and ended in ‘x’ or included Final Fantasy or Dragon Ball names. Looking at you xX-Sephiroth-Xx69.

An Investigation of World of Warcraft Character NamesA story of explorative game analytics and the surprises you encounter when investigating eight million World of Warcraft characters - and a couple of thousand Battlefield playe

I loved the first parts of Escape From City-17. Out of all the fan made Half-Life inspired films, I always thought this was one of the best produced. I hope it get the funding it needs.

Half-Life: Escape From City-17 Part 3The next installment in the Escape From City-17 series. Based on the Half-Life games. | Check out ‘Half-Life: Escape From City-17 Part 3’ on Indiegogo.Indiegogo

“EA didn’t give a shit about FIFA.”

Rejection, tragedy and billions of dollars - The story of FIFA - MCV/DEVELOPEA didn’t give a shit about FIFA.”Neil Thewarapperuma (or Neil T to his friends) isn’t a man to mince his words. He was the European marketing boss for EA Sports back in 1993, the year the publisher wMCV/DEVELOPMCV Staff

Jennifer Helper was working on sequel Dragon Age: Inquisition but is quitting BioWare this week to go freelance, in large part thanks to threats she and others of the team received in the wake of Dragon Age II’s release.

Both of these posts still seam relevent. Even if it comes from some anonymous kid or manchild, who’s only goal is to incite fear to get something to go their way, it doesn’t’ matter. To even post such vile, hateful words, means you probably need some anger management courses

Half-Life 3 has become the gamer’s equivalent of the DB Cooper legend. There are so many hints and speculation over something that could be there. Whether or not the game really exists or not, the real question is whether or not anything produced could live up to the hype thats built up over nearly a decade or waiting.

Half-Life 3 – the game that doesn’t existHints, teasing tweets and feverish speculation, the wait for Valve’s next version of the game is like an online soap opera. By Rich Stan

Members participate in Xbox Community Ambassadors or the Enforcement United beta, and on the backend, we track your participation, calculate your XP, and award loot to your Gamertag as you level up. There’s no need to opt in to earn rewards, submit your activity, or create a new profile. We’ll take care of the heavy lifting.

Looks like leveling your gamertag was successful enough for Valve/Steam that Microsoft is jumping on the bandwagon too. I wonder how long until they add trading cards t