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English Major, Writing Minor, Games Enthusiast @ Stony Brook University

Location:Long Island NY

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Release day daze: How post-launch content sours new games

As iterative releases become more commonplace on all game platforms, they effectively reduce the "complete" feel of the product on day one. Going forward, how will this effect consumers' ideology on a complete retail product, and on the notion that they are simply buying in to an incomplete project?

Surviving DayZ: The Arma II mod that challenges your “Humanity”

If you’ve been living under a rock these last few weeks, you may have missed the Internet talking about DayZ, the current hotness among our somewhat strange cultural obsession with zombies. This mod for Arma II, created by Dean Hall (better …