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Gaming. That word just thrills me completely. Sure, I might spend too much time cooped up in my room playing awesome games on my computer or gaming console. And I also might look like a zombie thanks to the lack of sun, sleep, and food I get when I get into my gaming mindset. The [...]

Me and video games, well we go way back. I vividly remember my first Game Boy.  It was that big grey number that compared to today’s on-the-go gaming is more like a big brick.  It did not matter if I was at home or away, I always had my sweet Game Boy, my Game Boy [...]

The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword may well be the Zelda game the world has awaited since the award winning The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time.  Don’t get me wrong, I still enjoyed playing Majora’s Mask, Wind Waker, and Twilight Princess — but none of these had the same magical feel as Ocarina of [...]

People have been selling and buying previously owned video games for years.  I remember in the 1980s when you could find used Atari 2600 cartridges cheap in certain sections of popular retail and electronics stores.  That trend continued into the 1990s and is now in full swing, possibly due to the number and variety of [...]

This season, video games are definitely hot Christmas gifts!  Almost everyone wants video games, no matter what age or gender.  Yes, there are fifty year old grandparents playing console games or gaming apps on their smart phones or tablets.  The numbers being reported by Ebay this holiday season are something for game developers and companies [...]

So many great video games have recently been released that if your favorite gamer didn’t rush out to buy all of them the moment they went on sale, there’s plenty to choose from for excellent gift ideas this holiday season.  Modern Warfare 3, The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, and a host of other titles add [...]

For many people, the ultimate among the first modern consoles was the Nintendo game system.  Many people do not realize that when the company was first created, it was a card company — a manufacturer of playing cards that began in the late 1800s and kept this course until 1974.  It was at that time [...]

Some of us are old enough to remember the video arcades of the 1980s, and because we spent so much time and money there buying tokens to feed those machines, they hold a special place in our hearts.  So do Legos.  Fortunately, Legos remain as insanely popular as ever, even though many of the classic [...]

Social gaming has been on the rise for the past five years, but it’s origins go back farther than you may realize.  The first social gaming took place in video arcades, when groups of friends huddled around their favorite pinball or video game machines in two, three, or multi-player mode trying to outdo one another [...]