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Gaming the System: The equal-opportunity fighting game

Nick Speranza March 1, 2022
The fighting game community, or FGC, has been called the most racially diverse community in video games, and offers a large amount of opportunities to Black creators, talent and players. 
Smaran Ramidi / DFP Staff

Gaming the System: Modding is a great thing for games, even if some developers disagree

Nick Speranza February 1, 2022

In past articles for my column, I have touched briefly on derivative work and modding in the gaming sphere, but never was it the focus of my article. My commentary from October 2021 on drama in the Super...

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Gaming the System: Among Us memes convey the pain of an internet-dependent world

Nick Speranza March 9, 2021
The nonstop stimuli of the internet tire us out, bombard us and even hijack our brains with advertising. By posting memes poking fun at our ability to recognize Among Us beans in everything, we finally make light of this phenomenon, finding a moment of joy from the conditions of our year-long cabin fever.
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Gaming the System: Gacha games represent another loss during the pandemic

Nick Speranza February 4, 2021
Our real world is too much to bear, so we escape into the fantasy worlds of gacha games — where the underlying pain comes from loss of money, not lives.

ROBINSON: Mac or PC?

Daily Free Press Admin February 19, 2013

I’d like to take a stab at the old Mac versus PC argument. It’s dangerous territory, I know. But I have the advantage of limited bias. My house boasts Macs and PCs, and I sport a MacBook but intentionally...

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