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So yesterdays article about gaming television shows stirred up quite the debate. Unfortunately, it quickly degenerated into a free for all of comments that placed everything that was wrong with the medium squarely on the shoulders of local production, The Verge.
And sure, you guys have a right to be upset, after all, you’re being prodded with a stick and ... [»]
The other day I asked my Twitter friends and followers what the term “girl gamer†means to them. What are the word associations that instantly come to mind? What are the attributes that the world expects female gamers to have? In the midst of the interesting responses I found the exact answer I was expecting:“Girl gamers are really good at the games they play.â€Time and time again I’ve seen girl gamers celebrated with the words “They ... [»]
I think we’re all in agreement around here that it would be great if more women were gamers. Or, more precisely, if more women were the type of gamer who actually discussed their hobby.It’s important to make this distinction because game-playing girls are definitely out there. For years now, studies have revealed a near 50/50 gender split when it comes to gaming. So women are definitely playing. However, they’re not talking about ... [»]
So the other week Lazygamer reported on a recent Cosmopolitan article that recommended the magazine’s style and sex-obsessed readers take up gaming if they want to get laid more often. Buy a Wii; hang out at the arcade with your man and you’re sure to ... [»]
There are many gamers out there, admittedly mostly male, who dream of sharing their passion with their significant other.They dream of intense capture-the-flag sessions, where each partner has the other one’s back. They envision themselves as an unstoppable Arena team – a Paladin and a ... [»]
Browsing through the comments under my first girl gaming and gaming lifestyle column, one statement was repeatedly confirmed by readers. And that is how women who play video games are, on the whole, more likely to fall into the casual gaming category, as opposed to the hardcore and ultra-competitive.We previously established that there are plenty of women – of all ages – playing everything from FarmVille to Blur; from Mario Kart to StarCraft II. ... [»]
Well, over the coming weeks Gavin and the Lazygamer gang have asked me to look at gaming culture – if there is such a thing – and explore the pastime from a more casual playing perspective. And where better to start in this regard than with the inevitable topic of girl gamers? Where are they? What are they playing? And if they are playing, why are they not here on this site ranting ... [»]
You know those seedy “800†telephone services, where lonely men could phone up and chat with a “hot†girl, and ask them original things like “So..what’re you wearing?†for a nominal fee? Well, that’s made a jump to the modern age, and internet upstart Gamecrush is now offering sad, lonely bastards the opportunity to get their video game on with ... [»]
How many times did you start a game of Monopoly and then realize hours later that you had other things to do? Like say eat or drink…I think you would be hard pressed to find anyone who could honestly state that they had actually ... [»]
Oh sweet Guys. As some of you may already know, Sony has an upcoming Mini service that launches on October 1st. The service will allow gamers to download mini-games that have been limited to 100MBs by Sony themselves.As an avid gamer I'll never frown upon the casual sector, there's just too much good to be ... [»]
Digital Chocolate's fun new title, Crazy Monkey Spin is now available for your iPhones. You can download it from the iTunes Store and It currently costs around £1.79 and there is an option to download a free version, which we expect will have some limitations.The title ... [»]
Cell-shading is a rendering technique used by game developers to give their games a stylized, cartoony look. This interesting visual style has been in use since the dawn of the last generation of consoles, and it’s produced some of the best-looking games on the market in recent years. Unfortunately, it also bears an unjust stigma with a large portion of the worldwide gaming community.For ... [»]
While rattling through my archive of articles for Play Tech Magazine in search of samples to secure some freelance work, I came across our woefully unpublished Alone in the Dark: Inferno review for the PS3. It was meant to go into the February issue, and the highlight of the article was a little in-depth comparison we did between the original Xbox 360/PC versions and the PS3 to discuss why the developers made the changes they did.The reason we did this was to explore just how ... [»]
Alright… um, welcome to the first LazyGamer Casual Gaming column. I’m Matthew Vice, formerly the editor of Play Tech Magazine and gaming editor for Otaku Magazine. I work for LazyGamer now, and rather than providing you with more news, seeing as how we have a number of ... [»]
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