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You’ve experienced it at least once in your life. Perhaps it was that ill-advised vacation to a timeshare in Mexico. Or the time you had to spend Thanksgiving at the in-laws. Or it could even be when you dated a hot but strong-headed feminist, and you accompanied her to a lecture titled “Phallic Objects in Popular Media and How they Continue to Brainwash Us”. Whatever it is, we’re certain yo

Let’s face it: 99% of us alive today won’t ever be able to drive a Lamborghini Aventador. If you’re a regular Joe, there’s only two ways you can achieve this: you suddenly win the Powerball next month, or you carjack one. Fortunately, thanks to NFS, Forza and Gran Turismo, the rest of pathetic humanity can tool around in Lambos, Ferraris and Paganis… if only in the virtual world. With

It’s all fun and games ’till someone loses an eye. Except it’s not just an eye, but an arm, a leg, maybe even a kidney or two. It’s the violence in video games that turn many conservatives against the games and the gaming community. So much that they don’t see the great things about the majority of complex virtual games. Well, we don’t need them anyhow. But I am not kidding or biased when I say vide

Despite being the favored sport of several Fortune 500 CEOs, to the general public, golf can be summed in one word: boring. For most people, the sport just doesn’t have anything all that interesting. This is actually part of what makes it so strange that so many golf games come out for the PC and console every generation and managing to sell well enough to warrant more such titles being developed. It may have

In Red Alert 3, there are only two things that scare the bejesus out of players. One is when a superweapon is launched by one of the players. And the second is the sight of a massive blimp with a giant bloodred smile creeping its way relentlessly towards the player’s base. That’s the image of the Soviet Union’s dreaded Kirov Airship. While it shares nothing in common with the country’s real-