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Submission + - Question: What makes a gamer "hardcore?" (leaveluckto.us)

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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."

Submission + - Is the 1-10 scale broken? Is 7 the new 5? (leaveluckto.us)

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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."

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