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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.

EA Previews Battlefield 3 Before E3

Battlefield 3 is quickly building a lot of anticipation, and EA is pulling out all the stops to promote their popular series before E3. Today an almost 20-minute long EA preview was released, showcasing the new Frostbite engine and the return of the popular “Karkand” map.

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Editorial: “You ARE adopted, and that’s TERRIBLE.” Umadbro?

Recently, an adoptive father has gone to the media expressing outrage over Valve’s decision to mock adoptees in their immensely popular game, Portal 2. While the media report on the issue is rife with numerous issues, as mentioned earlier on this site, what got me the most is that it wasn’t an adoptee that was

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PSN Slowly Coming Back Online Around the World, Overwhelmed with Password Change Requests

With the return of select PlayStation Network services comes a little bit more frustration.  North and South America, New Zealand, Australia, Europe and Mexico should have access to the returned services that were announced on Saturday, but PSN is currently overwhelmed by the amount of password change requests.  To all those that have still not received the password

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Anonymous Engaged in a Civil War?

With the PSN outages going into their 20th day — with no real promises of letting up any time soon — and Anonymous still being partially blamed for the attack, it seems like the drama surrounding the internet hackers/activists just keeps coming.  Now, sources are reporting that Anonymous might be fighting some of their own

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Bethesda Discusses More Details for Skyrim

Todd Howard, Game Director for Bethesda Game Studios, sat down with the German gaming website Gameswelt to discuss some more details of the upcoming Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim.  In the 14-minute clip, we hear a little bit more about the details of playing in Skryim and what we can expect to be different and simliar

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