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Video game companies are STILL being hacked

UPDATE 6/15: In the past few days, the servers for Leage of Legends, Minecraft, Eve Online, and the gaming website The Escapist. At this point, there have still been no reasons given, no legal action...

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Wheelin’ and Dealin': The Life of an Internet Penny Pincher

Well, here at STA Show HQ, our staff members aren’t exactly wiping our asses with 50 dollar bills… or one dollar bills, for that matter. We’re always on the lookout for the best deals on games, and...

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Madden Warfare 11 Highlights

Cris and Adam decided that since football season was about to start again, they’d play a collection of classic football games leading all the way up to the newly released Madden NFL 12. These videos...

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Beta vs. Demo

I was hoping that we would get a demo of Need for Speed: The Run before Battlefield 3 came out on 10/25/11 and low and behold it’s here. I was hoping for this because there was so much bullshit...

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Why video games are more than just games

There are moments in your life as a gamer that are “milestones,” to say that you remember them for a special moment in time. You remember where you were, and when it was. As a gamer I thought I would...

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Female video game leads

A common criticism of the video game industry is the lack of female lead characters in games. A typical rebuttal includes mentions of well-endowed female lead characters like Lara Croft. The argument...

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Game(s) of the Year 2011

After weeks of back-and-forth discussions, we finally decided we weren’t going to be able to settle on just one game of the year this year. There were just TOO many options. The conclusion we came to...

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StanTheHokieFan’s MAGFest diary

This January I decided, along with the STAShow crew, to take the plunge and attend a gaming festival for the first time. We decided on MAGFest, the Music and Gaming Festival, which is a four day event...

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Cris and Adam interview Amil Parra, designer of RetroBlazer

Recently, Adam and Cris had some time to talk about RetroBlazer with the game’s creator, Amil Parra. He talked about how the game has progressed, other games he’d like to make, and what plans he has...

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Portal 2 & Skyrim meet via Steam Workshop

In one of the greatest gaming crossovers EVER, Cris’s 2011 Game of the Year, Skyrim and my 2011 Game of the Year, Portal 2 have joined forces on the PC. Skrim recently added Steam Workshop...

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Saturday Morning RPG developer interview

You’ve heard plenty of stuff from us about the upcoming Mighty Rabbit Studios release Saturday Morning RPG. Now, hear it from the developers themselves! We talk about how the game got started, what...

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A Dream of Life Interview

I recently had the chance to speak with Jesse Etzler regarding a new project of his, “A Dream of Life”. He’s an independent video game developer from Minnesota who has been developing games for over 9...

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Do we really need new consoles?

At this stage in the life of video game development, the industry has created a perfect storm. For the first time in decades we’re seeing a console generation that will last longer than the typical...

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Account security and you

Quite some time ago, I wrote a piece (viewable HERE) exploring the ever-growing threat of having your accounts compromised, and how it tied into the gaming industry. In today’s world of “always on”...

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Is free-to-play the way to go?

More and more games are moving to the free-to-play model as their preferred distribution method, but what effect is it having on players and developers? Such big name MMO games as City of Heroes, DC...

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30 Day Video Game Challenge

Fellow SS staffer Andy had started doing this photo challenge thing on Facebook not long ago. I’m not much a Facebook person, and I already torture you guys with enough of my writing and rambling, so I...

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The 14 Games That Made Me A Gamer

So it’s pretty clear that pretty much everyone on the STAShow crew, and most of our friends and listeners are big fans of video games, but how did we get that way? At some point, each of us had to have...

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Do Sequels Hurt The Gaming Industry?

In the film industry, sequels and remakes aren’t uncommon occurances. In most cases, aside from series like James Bond or Godzilla, it’s rare to see more than three or four films about a particular...

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What I want… in a zombie survival game

While my ideal zombie game (so far) might be on its way in the form of “State of Decay,” or more importantly, its possible MMO follow-up, here are a few things I’d like to see in my perfect zombie...

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StartSelect.net’s 25 hottest game girls

Every other video game site has done their lists of hot game girls, so it was pretty much mandatory for us to do it too. However, we saw a problem with most of the other lists out there. About 80...

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