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Casual Gaming the New Hardcore
The Guardian Gamesblog has a post up discussing the reality that the realm of the casual gamer now has its own element of the hardcore about it. From the article: "Traditional hardcore gamers need only pop along to [a] Game [store] to get their latest fix. Either that or they can head over to an importer like Lik-Sang and take their fill of Japanese 2D shooters. Casual gamers must trawl the web for reliable shareware sites or friendly communities of like-minded chess fans. There are very few magazines addressing their needs, no one is interested. Now that is hardcore."
..from emails from friends.
or from flash banners.
you do realise that just going into a game store every now and then and picking up a game isn't all that hardcore at all? it's actually the casual way, if you just casually choose whatever game is on sale.
world was created 5 seconds before this post as it is.
The best review aggregator that I've run across (for video games, at least): www.metacritic.com