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  Question: What makes a gamer "hardcore?"[->] 2007-12-14 20:42 Chess_the_cat

Submitted by Chess_the_cat on Friday December 14 2007, @08:42PM
Chess_the_cat writes "Who amongst gamers are truly hardcore? The Dew-sipping Halo jockeys or the Gamecube-loving Cooking Mama completers? An interesting essay that attempts to reclaim the hardcore title from the FPS crowd and hand it back to its rightful owners: the gaming geeks."
http://www.leaveluckto.us/2007/12/what-makes-gamer-hardcore-its-not-what.html
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  Is the 1-10 scale broken? Is 7 the new 5?[->] 2007-12-11 19:10 Chess_the_cat

Submitted by Chess_the_cat on Tuesday December 11 2007, @07:10PM
Chess_the_cat writes "An examination of the practice of rating video games between 1-10. Inspired by the recent firing of Gerstmann, the author examined scores rewarded by IGN and find that they don't follow a normal distribution but instead skew towards the number 7."
http://www.leaveluckto.us/2007/12/1-to-10-scale-is-broken-or-why-i-hate.html
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