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Tuesday, July 15, 2003
Women and Games
It seems about every 6 months or so a new "study" comes out dealing with games and females. Well Wired News published an article about the latest study.
Game makers are not making games for women, blah, blah, blah.
MMmmm, yummy chocolate cake...
Sorry there, it's just that my snack is more interesting than the article! It's always the same stuff being reported. You would think people would learn by now. Gaming is a predominantly male activity. It doesn't matter how many studies you do, you will always get the same results. Girls don't play games or the ones they do are usual simple puzzle based type. Boys play games and like ones full of violence and scantly clad women.
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on 07/15/2003 at 08:51 PM
Sunday, July 06, 2003
Diablo II 1.10 beta patch released
Blizzard released a beta of the new 1.10 patch for Diablo II. It's only for the US version of Diablo II:Lord of Destruction expansion currently. However, the final patch will also support the original game. Also, when you install the patch you can only play single player and direct TCP/IP games. Sorry no battle.net yet!
You can grab the patch here and read up on all the info: http://www.battle.net/diablo2exp/beta/.
Also make sure to check out the official battle.net forum for the new patch: http://www.battle.net/forums/board.aspx?ForumName=d2-beta
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Sunday, June 29, 2003
The kiddie game debate
I have time and time again seen simple polls of video game console use turned into a fanboy debate over how one system "sucks, becuase it's for kiddies". I for one am getting sick of it!Continue reading "The kiddie game debate"