Daniel Etherington

With Modern Warfare 2 on the Xbox 360, Party Chat has been disabled for the majority of the multiplayer game modes, much to the irritation of players like me who prefer to just party up with a few real friends and chat, you know, like normal people who don’t want to be audio spammed by [...]

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When I saw  The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, and the scenes involving Moria, one thing that struck me was – if Moria was such a major kingdom for the dwarves, how come the door was so small? I’ve read The Lord of the Rings, The Hobbit and the Silmarillion, but [...]

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Another tragic high school shooting spree, this time in Germany. And yet again, the media cannot cover it without having to shoehorn in a mention of the fact that the killer played videogames.
This from The Guardian 12 March 2009: “Testimonies of friends and acquaintances today portray the table tennis champion as a lonely and frustrated [...]

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I’ve been PC gaming on and off for the past five years. Getting into writing about videogames, I replaced my quaint old iMac with a then fairly robust PC.
Without any shame I can say that the short list of my best ever cultural experiences includes playing Sony’s now slowly dying Planetside, a game that really [...]

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