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Stephanie M.

I am a social worker by day, gamer and geek every other time. I currently live in Denver, Colorado with my husband and our two dogs. I really enjoy a wide variety of games, such as simulation, racing, puzzle, FPS, RPGs and the occasional online multiplayer. My current favorites are the Mass Effect series, Torchlight II, Team Fortress 2, Starbound, Rollercoaster Tycoon 3 and Pokemon X.

Columbine and the Norway Attacks: Why Video Games are a Common Scapegoat

When you sit back and think about it, April is a pretty terrible month for well-known tragedies.  The world just finished commemorating the 100th year anniversary of the Titanic’s sinking on the 15th, President Lincoln was assassinated on the eve of the 15th as well, and the Oklahoma City Bombings happened 17  years ago on the 19th.  The Virginia Tech

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The Hunger Games Review: Can Hollywood Respect the Young Adult Genre?

There is a lot to be said about the Young Adult (YA) genre of literary fiction these days. The rise of the Harry Potter and Twilight series proved that pre-teens and teenagers still love the written word. So what happens when another YA fiction comes on the scene and gathers the same obsessive and loving

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She’s Got Game Weekly Wrap Up: February 3 – 9

Welcome to another installment of She’s Got Game’s Weekly Wrap Up!  Now that 2012 really is in full swing, gamers are preparing for all the best that the new year can offer.  This week Diablo III releases 100,000 additional beta keys, Soul Calibur V‘s marketing ploy is pretty transparent, Skyrim releases a creation kit and

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She’s Got Game Weekly Wrap Up: January 27 – February 2

Welcome to the second installment of She’s Got Game Weekly Wrap Up! As Denver prepares for the Snowpoclypse, I am gathering all the interesting gaming and geek blurbs from this week for you to enjoy in 15 inches of snow! This week we are playing Half-Life 2 to get Valve to release Half-Life 3, looking

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She’s Got Game Weekly Wrap Up: January 15 – 20

Welcome to “She’s Got Game Weekly Wrap Up”!  The newest weekly series that will focus on what news organizations and the geek culture have been talking about from the feminine perspective.  This series highlights what it means to be a woman in the gaming and geek culture — all the good, the bad and the

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Skryim, Portal, Arkham City Headline Spike TV’s VGAs

On December 10th, Spike TV held their annual Video Game Awards special, where all things gaming were celebrated and commemorated.  This was certainly a great year in gaming — even your fellow PG! writers are trying to figure out what the best of the best was this year. For those of you who didn’t catch the

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Terraria 1.1 Coming December 1

In a brand-new trailer released November 25th, Re-Logic has finally announced the anticipated update of their widely popular game Terraria.  The trailer shows a slew of new updates to the game, including new bosses, creatures, weapons, items and aesthetic changes.

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