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  DarkZero is a Houston-Based Esports Team That's Dominating the Competition

  September 30 at 4 a.m.

  On a quiet tree-lined street in Houston, somewhere in the Heights, a top-ranked professional esports team just dominated a regular season match to retain first place in their North American league. "We're technically the only esports team in Houston," jokes DarkZero team owner Zach Matula. While the former energy and...

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  Still Waiting on the DS Final Fantasy Games on Switch

  September 17 at 5 a.m.

  It’s great that Square Enix has brought so many of the classic Final Fantasy games to Nintendo Switch in one big gulp. With Final Fantasy VIII just getting released, every game from VII to XII and Crystal Chronicles is available. As someone who has been trying to get his spouse...

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  Houston Film Star Opens Mr. Pixel's Classic Arcade

  August 29 at 5 a.m.

  Joe Grisaffi is one of Houston’s most beloved film stars, having written, directed, and starred in dozens of local films like Conjoined and The Haunted Trailer, and even making appearances in Hollywood productions like Pirates of the Caribbean. He is also one of the city’s premiere collectors of arcade machines...

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  Is it Really Video Games and Not Racist Rhetoric That Inspires Mass Shootings? Really?

  August 6 at 5 a.m.

  In the wake of a pair of deadly mass shootings in El Paso and Dayton, Ohio over the weekend, many conservative politicians pulled out an old scapegoat for the violence to avoid any discussion of gun control: video games. Lt. Governor Dan Patrick appeared on Fox & Friends to say...

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  The Possible Video Game Influences of Stranger Things

  July 17 at 4 a.m.

  Spoilers Ahead With the third season of the hit Netflix horror series Stranger Things all wrapped up and things primed for another season of nostalgia-driven unease, it’s time to dissect the show as if we were scientists with little regard for the possible outcomes of our actions. Stranger Things is...

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  Should You Buy a Nintendo Switch Lite if You Already Own a Switch?

  July 15 at 5 a.m.

  This is the question on my mind after the announcement that Nintendo will release a Lite version of the Switch. This one is, obviously, lighter to hold than the regular version because it is geared strictly toward mobile gamers. The Joy-Con controls also don’t come off — meaning it technically...