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Twinfinite’s Summer Giveaway!

Greetings wonderful Twinfiknights! Like a lot of the staff, my summer vacation has officially started and hot damn am I pumped. No more stressing over finals, papers, or staring at words like “occasion” or “conscientious” at 5 in the morning convinced that they’re spelled wrong. They’re not. I’m going to enjoy using my new-found freedom to go back and tackle my insane backlog and taking a second look at games I had fun with but haven’t touched in a while. One [...]

[Community] Twinfinite Talks: What Do You Look For in Video Game Criticism?

Yesterday morning I was wrapped in a fairly interesting discussion around whether or not “game literacy” was required to properly critique video games. On the one hand, an understanding in the technical aspects of video games can go a long way. On the other hand, there can also be a more reactionary style of criticism not bogged down by technical jargon. While this is a matter of debate in and of itself, it did establish one thing: Everyone looks for [...]

[Featurama] Five Signs you Might be a “Hardcore” gamer

The gaming community is no stranger to labeling and stereotyping. There is a label heard so much within the community and industry that it deserves discussion- “hardcore” gamers, or conversely, “casuals”. The use of this word can get to the point where it can become a cause for a kind of elitism amongst gamers, whether it is a “hardcore” PC gamer turning up his nose at “console kiddies”, or mobile games being shunned for being too “casual”. Gaming journalists and [...]

[News] A Kickstarter For Want To Be Games Journalists Has Arisen

Nathan Meunier, freelance games journalists for over 25 games magazines, has started a Kickstarter to fund his new book, Up Up Down Down Left Write: The Freelance Guide to Video Game Journalism. It’s looking promising with 32 days to go and already reaching $400 out of its $7,000 goal. Personally I’m very open to advice from people who have done amazing things, whether I even want to do them myself or not. The number one advice for wanting to be [...]

[Guest Retrospection] Fallout Still Radiates Among Modern Gamers

[Promoted from our Community Manager's inbox, here's another fantastic community Guest Writer!  Stacey Thompson discusses Fallout and its many influences on gamers. She is a professional writer, marketer, entrepreneur, eclectic digital and tabletop gamer, and a lover of weird little animals. She is based in San Diego, California, and currently works with Trade-A-Plane and Tradequip International.] The Fallout series of role playing video games began in 1997 with Tim Cain and Interplay. It was designed as a spiritual successor to an earlier [...]

[Community] E3 Coverage Coming Soon, Thanks To You Viewer

We started in October 2011 out of a love for video games and a need for an outlet other than our Twitters to express it. We don’t claim to be professionals, but we sure as hell love what we do and try our best at it. So it’s an honor whenever we hear good things from a fan of the site or any random viewer at all. Not to mention the views our articles get. Trolls are awesome, too. The [...]