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Male Stereotypes: How Baldness Pervaded the Gaming Industry

Posted byby GamesBeat
June 20, 2012
2 min

Recently, under the guise of her online persona Feminist Frequency, pop culture critic Anita Sarkeesian made waves online by introducing the Tropes vs. Women in Video Games Kickstarter, a video series exploring female stereotypes in the world of games.

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Social Networking’s Connection With Gaming

Posted byby GamesBeat
June 1, 2012
4 min

We find that in today’s modern culture, the use of social networking sites has worked to increase, or extend the life cycle of individual...

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4 min

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Team Fortress 2 Review

Posted byby GamesBeat
May 31, 2012
6 min

After over 4 years of free updates, DLC and tons of hats! Its time to review Team Fortress 2 in 2012. Even after 4 years, the community is still going strong, especially when it went free to play in June last year.

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Get Off My Lawn! – A Look Back and a New Beginning in Gaming

Posted byby GamesBeat
May 28, 2012
3 min

I remember it like it was yesterday. For my 21st birthday, I got a brand new Microsoft Xbox 360. I was pretty hyped, but I did feel a bit like a traitor. For the past two generations I've been a Sony man. I've been one of the millions of Playstation 1 and 2 owners in America, but now I've gone to the other side.

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3 min

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Reason for excitement over ‘This Masked Miscreant’

Posted byby GamesBeat
May 27, 2012
1 min

This October you will be taking on the role of a masked assassin named Corvo out for blood in a neo-victorian steampunk dystopia. In a debut trailer released in April it is revealed that Corvo was once a guard for an Empress but found closest to her at her death and therefore marked as her murderer, hence the name Dishonored.

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God of War: Ascension To Feature Multiplayer

Posted byby GamesBeat
May 21, 2012
3 min

While there's a cavernous niche carved out of the online market by first and third-person shooters, you can't really say the same for slashy...

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3 min

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(Updated with new pictures) Student reveals the origins of his real-life Portal turret

Posted byby Mike Minotti
May 12, 2012
1 min

Penn State University student Kevin Swanson talks to GamesBeat about his real-life Portal turret and reveals the role his Portal-obsessed professor had in its origin. Updated with pictures of the machine's development.

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Fan-made Darksiders costume rivals Hollywood’s best

Posted byby GamesBeat
May 6, 2012
1 min

This astounding costume was crafted by two French cosplayers.

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Those damn spiders in Uncharted 3: Drake’s Deception (spoilers)

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
April 30, 2012
2 min

[Warning: spoilers coming for those who never did play Uncharted 3.] The spiders of Uncharted 3: Drake’s Deception are never properly explained in the...

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2 min

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According to the Internet: The Walking Dead season two in five pictures or less

Posted byby GamesBeat
April 28, 2012
1 min

AMC’s bastardization adaptation of The Walking Dead recently wrapped its second season. With over 9M viewers tuning in for the season finale, a third season is...

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