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Category Archives: games & gaming

Mission: Incredible. Or at least quite surprising.

11-Nov-09

If you’ve recently returned from the moon, the Upper Volta, or the editorial conference of BBC News Online, then you may not know that Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 has just been released. This is the follow-up to critically-acclaimed CoD: ModernWarfare, a game which married smooth and intuitive first-person shooter gameplay, with fabulous graphics, [...]

Are virtual places as real to you as those in your past?

10-Feb-09

“We cross our bridges when we come to them and burn them behind us; leaving nothing but a memory of the smell of smoke and a presumption that our eyes once watered.” – Tom Stoppard, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead I’ve been playing quite a bit of Call of Duty 4 on XBoxLive recently. Not enough [...]

The internet and real-life: part one

25-Nov-08

Here’s an interesting piece on BBC News on why compulsive gamers are not addicts For Mr Bakker the root cause of the huge growth in excessive gaming lies with parents who have failed in their duty of care. Mr Bakker believes that if there was more commitment from parents and other care givers to listen [...]