There’s been tons of articles written ad-nauseum about how video-games do or do not impact people psychologically, most of them seemingly designed to reach a pre-determined point of view, backed up by extensive “research.”  I’m no scientist, so I’m only going to leave research in scare quotes and move on and leave the statistical debate [...]

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Oh, Kotaku, how I love it when you try and be intellectual.  To be fair, I love Leigh’s and Maggie’s think pieces (they’re the most intellectual editors they have), but Kotaku’s demo is just so overly fan-boy driven that their advertising (and commenters) tend to undercut any attempt at seriousness with a healthy dose of [...]

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