Nate Thompson's video game collection fills almost the entirety of his Grand Forks home. From first-person shooter to sports games to adventure games, Thompson has just about every kind of game one could imagine. In all, he approximates he has collected 45 percent of all of the games made for the original Xbox, and in total, has roughly 1,500 games in his collection.
Thompson, 35, has been gaming since 1983. Through gaming he has made connections and friends he said he wouldn't have met otherwise. He no longer feels gamers are, or should be, stigmatized. Now, virtually everyone is playing video games — males and females, single people and families, young and old.
Skewed and Reviewed have written an Opinion Piece covering issues in the gaming industry, how current issues were issues years ago, and what can be done to help restore consumer trust.
Nothing. It's up to the gamers to stop consuming content from companies that they don't agree with.
How do you know if you agree with it or not unless you play it? Which without conventions forces gamers to rely on trailers. Perhaps Demos should be made more frequently. But companies need to do better as well.
But is that not what they have now? Tons of gameplay or are you talking about watching actual gamers play it versus the trailers and streams? The big issue is that some companies pay streamers and influencers and they create content but for me; that is hardly a fair, unbiased, and factual look at a game.
They usually are attached to the money sadly. It would be nice to have gamers in charge but you have so much money invested that business people are needed. Hence the issue; you need people who know business but are also gamers who know have an eye to the community. It sounds simple in theory that if you give gamers quality games that they want to play; money will be made. But that is not always so.
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A famous actor from Starship Troopers has showered praise on Helldivers 2 and said he is open to the idea of playing General Brasch.
