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	<title>Express Yourself: Videogames slowly make it easier to be gay in a virtual world</title>
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Play: It&#39;s not always easy being gay&#44; in the real world or the virtual&#46; But while progress in the everyday world of work&#44; society and relationships has given us the chance to lead our lives as openly &#45;&#45; or flamboyantly &#45;&#45; as we want&#44; our comparative lives in videogames can remain rather staid and&#44; unsurprisingly&#44; straight&#46; &#39;Fable 2&#39; is a rare game that makes being gay a natural part of a gaming world&#46; While gaming has grown as a mass&#45;media entertainment&#44; videogame aesthetics often feel trapped in a tweener boy&#39;s perspective&#44; where every massively muscled man is an overcompensation for physical geekiness and every large&#45;breasted woman is a direct descendant of Princess Leia&#39;s skimpy bikini appearance in Return of the Jedi&#46;  ... (more)]]></description>
	<pubDate>Thu, 12 Feb 2009 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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	<title>Let It Bleed: &#39;Dead Space&#39; fits the Halloween mood with space&#45;based scares&#44; while &#39;Fallout 3&#39; provides a close&#45;to&#45;home fright</title>
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Play: Scary movies&#44; spooky stories&#44; chilling tales &#45;&#45; Halloween is a time to settle in for a good fright that comes from a horror movie or novel&#46; But right now some of the freshest scares you&#39;ll find come from your Playstation and Xbox&#46; Horror in gaming isn&#39;t new &#45;&#45; despite being undermined by far inferior movie versions&#44; the Resident Evil and Silent Hill games showed that a cinematic style could create plenty of jump&#45;off&#45;the&#45;couch moments&#46; But the just&#45;released Dead Space takes those survival horror conventions &#45;&#45; a lone&#44; unlikely hero facing off against hordes of the undead&#44; demons or&#44; worse&#44; both &#45;&#45; and brings them to a new level of immersive storytelling&#46;  ... (more)]]></description>
	<pubDate>Thu, 30 Oct 2008 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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	<title>Paper Cuts: Amazon&#39;s Kindle may change the shape of your personal library</title>
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Play: As technological advances go&#44; the basic book has had a long and distinguished run&#46; It spurred the exchange and preservation of knowledge among individuals and cultures&#46; It is eminently portable and requires no source of power&#46; Governments have burned them&#44; revolutions revered them and bookworms cherished them&#46; They won&#39;t easily fold in the face of new technology&#46; Amazon Kindle The idea of an electronic book is nothing new&#44; but while different companies have attempted it&#44; Amazon&#39;s Kindle may have established the first real beachhead for the next wave of printed communication&#46;  ... (more)]]></description>
	<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jun 2008 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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	<title>Can&#39;t Stop the Music: Rock Band brings out the hidden rock star in you &#45;&#45; and your friends</title>
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Play: You know you want to be a rock star&#44; whether you&#39;re the type who sings in the shower&#44; plays some surreptitious air guitar or taps out drum lines with your fingers&#46; Thanks to video games you can get the experience without all the drudge work of lessons&#44; practice and &#45;&#45; ahem &#45;&#45; talent&#46; Rock Band lets you and three of your friends rock out in the comfort and &#40;relative&#41; safety of your living room&#46; Developed by the minds who brought us the Guitar Hero cultural phenomenon&#44; Rock Band takes the basic music&#45;mimic formula to big new levels&#46; If you grab the full set of the game &#45;&#45; the big box comes with one guitar&#44; one drum set and a microphone &#45;&#45; you&#39;ll be up and running quickly on either a Playstation 3 or an XBox 360&#44; although if you&#39;re looking to play as a foursome you&#39;ll want to pick up an extra guitar controller &#40;an original Guitar Hero controller will substitute fine on the XBox&#41;&#46; Gameplay is straightforward &#45;&#45; strum the guitar or bang the drums in time with the moving notes on your television&#46; Singers just need to hit the right pitch &#45;&#45; easy enough at first&#44; but it gets much harder at higher difficulties&#46; Unless&#44; of course&#44; you can actually sing&#46;  ... (more)]]></description>
	<pubDate>Thu, 21 Feb 2008 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
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