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Best FPS Games MAC OS X: The Mac may not seem like much of a gaming rig but rest assured, the machine's more than capable of playing these first person shooters and delivering a solid experience.

Brendan Keogh writes about how alcohol is used throughout Bulletstorm to make the player do things you know you shouldn't do, but do anyway.

And now, back to our regularly scheduled program...

Ken Hannahs writes: Ghost Recon: Advanced Warfighter and its reception shows a troubling acceptance of clandestine missions that, although given the chaser of good old fashioned American exceptionalism, we're dealing essentially with a team of terrorists, fighting for the red, white, and blue.

Katy Goodman writes about how gaming can be a force of good.

V for Vandalism - An Outlook to the fifth Rockstar title, Grand Theft Auto 5.

Pandas are unpopular with a large, and vocal chunk of World of Warcraft players.

War is routinized, war is a spectacle, war is sanitized, war is surveillance.

I spoke at length with Xander Davis on his time at Vigil Games and how he wasn't credited for his work on their latest game, Darksiders 2.

Perpetuating the stereotype that women are bad at games.

Brendan Keogh explores Bulletstorm's clever delivery of interactive humor, as opposed to just funny dialogue and characters.

Rowan Kaiser pens an open letter to Funcom's The Secret World.

We take a look at 15 of the most WTF-inspiring moments in games of this generation.

The notable and the nutso.

Kris Ligman says that to get at the problems of E3, we need to think bigger and look at the overarching culture of enthusiast journalism and fanboy consumption.

Seb Wuepper muses on how the year's slate of games have turned out to be a bit dull compared to the last.

Are the environments of procedural algorithms better than handmade worlds?

Games like Angry Birds: Having fun with Angry Birds? You'll have even more fun with some of these games.

Brendan Keogh takes a look at Bulletstorm and how it intentionally tries to be a murder simulator.

Red or White, we all end up bloody.

Rowan Kaiser describes Dyad in the lexicon of a combat game.

Seb Wuepper plays through Mass Effect 3 without the burden of being influenced by hype, having played through it much later than everyone else.