Jared Chadwick
Jared Chadwick is an English major who takes writing about videogames more seriously than finding a respectable profession. Find him on Facebook
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Violent Games are Gonna Hurt You for Real
If only he had listened to Professor Cho! Brian Ashcraft of Kotaku recently wrote about an interesting study on violent videogames: In a ground-breaking new study, Professor Dong Wong Cho, who hails from a college in Sou...
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Better Late Than Never: Australia Adds R18+ Videogame Rating
Until recently the Australian gaming population has been suffering under an iron fist of censorship in the gaming industry. Games like Grand Theft Auto and God of War were either censored or banned outright for any content tha...
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Videogame April Fools Jokes
In case you just couldn’t figure out the reason your friends and coworkers have been relentlessly tormenting you with stupid pranks all day yesterday, it’s because yesterday was April Fools day! And while April firs...
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Games Help to Heal Sandy Hook
Forget all the debates about videogames for a minute. All the back and forth about the correlation between violence and videogames, the talks about evolving narrative and next generation consoles. This bit of good news from Po...
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In Space, No One Can Hear Your Screams of Dissapointment
This seems an appropriate metaphor of Randy Pitchford vs the people. The release of Gearbox’s Aliens: Colonial Marines has been met with a critical cold shoulder since its release, but it seems the situation has go...
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Riot Just Like Real Life
Riots are a lot like the man-made equivalent of a natural disaster: terrifying and fascinating. So it’s a much safer option to experience them from the safety of your Android or iOS device, which, thanks to a small Italia...
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Questing for Depression
Playing the hero (or villain) is fun and all, but sometimes just stepping into someone else’s shoes can feel as alien as any fantasy world. Case-in-point: Depression Quest, a game from Zoe Quinn that wants to break down t...
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Newell and Abrams: Better Than Fan Fiction?
If I told you Valve made an unexpected announcement at the recent DICE conference your brain might go into preliminary meltdown at the prospect of Half-Life 3. Well if that’s the case I’ve got good news and bad news...
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I (Used to) Get This Call Everyday: How David Gallant Lost His Job
One of the great things about videogames is their ability to convey emotions to others when words alone wont suffice. But sometimes that isn’t such a great thing. Such is the case with David Gallant, a family man w...
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A History of Violence
At this point no one is safe from the news of the school shooting at Sandy Hook. It’s plastered on every news channel and mentioned in every political debate. If you’re like me, and this kind of rampancy has ...