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Bitmaps 71: How You Can Be Like Me

Due to the constant demands for new content on any columnist, there are certain gimmicks and pitfalls to which they all eventually succumb. Eye-rolling features…

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BITMAPS 70: Gamers Misunderstood by Marketers

Every generation hits maturity around the times companies see profit in repackaging and reselling its own past back to itself. As seen by the trend…

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BITMAPS 68: Where Skate It and Fallout 3 Find Common Ground

This is the internet, a digital dreamscape where fantasies are allowed to rage unbound. Frequently this power is used to multiply the number of penises…

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BITMAPS 68: Japan’s Fallen Star

Star Ocean is a fundamentally troubling game. There are a number of superficial reasons for this. The game is ā€“ and I mean this in…

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BITMAPS 67: How Street Fighter IV Falls Short of Mortal Kombat and DDR

The sound of clicking buttons and wild expletives ring through apartments and bedrooms across the nation. Money is dropped on controllers whose relative worth is…

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BITMAPS 66: Onechanbara’s Misguided Reception

Humans are irrational, in a variety of ways. There are obvious examples of this all around – for instance your average gamer leveraging haughty complaints…

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