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I've been a reporter, a military journalist, a photographer, and a science writer at different points in my career. Now I write about video games and their relationship with culture, with a focus on the intersection of games and the military.
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World War Bee 2, the biggest and most costly war in the MMORPG's 18-year history, sputtered to a close earlier this year. As the belligerents have returned to a more 'normal' mode of operations, however, they've discovered that the massive space game is different now than it was before - and many haven't liked what they've found.
As US Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez was readying an amendment to the upcoming year's House appropriations bill - one that would ban the military service branches from maintaining any presence on social media or Twitch - the US Army's Esports organisation had already sounded a full retreat.
There's nothing quite as satisfying as a well-managed production chain. Or at least, so I'm told. The coal-to-electricity complex I've designed is supposed to do three things: extract raw coal from the ground, process that coal ore into usable coal, and burn that to generate power.
Jim Watson / AFP / Getty Images We are living in the age of tacticool, and the AR-15 pattern rifle is the weapon of the age.
EVE Online is currently in the throes of what may well be its biggest war to date. The powerful Imperium (more commonly known as the Goonswarm Federation), historically the largest and wealthiest alliance in New Eden, finds itself beset on both 'sides' of its large territory by a coalition called the PandaFam Alliance Please Ignore - itself comprised of a constellation of concerns including The Winter Coalition, Test Alliance Please Ignore, and the Legacy Coalition.
Accessibility advocates talk about what Apex Legends gets right - and where it misses the mark - when it comes to making games more accessible. In the time since Apex Legends burst onto the scene, almost out of nowhere - the game has amassed a staggering 25 million players, hitting a peak of two million concurrent players, according to Respawn CEO Vince Zampella.
Diablo is Blizzard's darkest series. In the world of Sanctuary, humanity desperately etches out an existence for itself, harangued by demonic invasions and the will of angels. There's a lot of death, plenty of gore, and a little bit of hope.
When most of us hear about Eve Online, it's because of some record-breaking battle that's just annihilated an eye-watering amount of real-world value from the game. World War Bee 2 just set a new record with the Massacre at M2-XFE, which resulted in a combined loss of $378,012 (about £267,400) for the belligerents, who collectively destroyed some 3,404 ships - including 257 Titans, Eve's largest and most expensive capital ships.
Earlier this week, the developer of the controversial FPS game Six Days in Fallujah said it understands that the events it's setting out to depict "are inseparable from politics", and that its goal is to tell the story of the second battle of Fallujah from a variety of perspectives.
While he was deployed to eastern Afghanistan, Lt. Jonathan Bratten would trudge back to his hut after long shifts in his battalion headquarters and stare up at the Hindu Kush, the 500-mile-long range of snow-capped mountains that straddles the country's border with Pakistan.