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According to IndiaToday, an 8-year-old boy named Ankit Kumar committed suicide on Wednesday after his father rebuked him for playing video games too much. His father says he reprimanded his son because his excessive gameplay was getting away from his schoolwork and studies.  He not only scolded Ankit for playing video games too much, but he also beat his other son for watching too much television. After rebuking both sons, he left to go to the market and his wife stepped out to go to a neighbor’s house. While they were away, Ankit used the television's table stand at his house to help him tie a rope around the iron bars of a window. When his parents returned, they came home to Ankit hanging from the window bars. Are games really to blame? According to IndiaToday’s article, it seems as though they think Ankit committed suicide because of the scolding his father had done before he left to the market; however, I want to question this. There is no real proof that one event wa...

For gamers, the most important difference between the Xbox One and PlayStation 4 is the games. Sure, they have differences in CPU and graphical power, but none of that matters unless it’s used to fuel awesome gaming experiences. To find out which game console is worth your hard-earned money, let’s look at what exclusive titles are in the works for each system. Below are some of the most exciting upcoming PlayStation 4 games you won’t find on any other platform. There’s a lot of great stuff heading our way, although it’s disappointing to see so many games without any indication of when they’re coming out. 1.  Dragon Quest Builders Release Date : October 11, 2016 It’s hard to exaggerate the importance of the  Dragon Quest  franchise in Japan. While it has struck a chord with many Western RPG fans in recent years, thanks to remakes on the Nintendo 3DS and iOS, it has been one of the biggest video game franchises of all time in Japan. So when Sq...

Rocket League has captured the gaming world's imagination in a way that no one could have predicted. The sequel to the little-known Supersonic Acrobatic Rocket-Powered Battlecars is one of the year's best-selling games across all platforms, proving that throwing two teams of micro-machines into an arena with a giant ball and two goals is the most ingenious sports idea of the century. It's beautiful in its simplicity, with no ability-based levelling, no power-ups, and no cheats to unbalance the gameplay. The ease with which you can get to grips with Rocket League's controls deceives the fact that it takes a huge amount of dedication to become truly great at it. The high skill ceiling and sublime physics-based gameplay recently got it officially declared as an e-sport too, and events are already being held all over the world pitting the best of the best against each other. You know what this means? Tons upon tons of incredible goals - the kind of gravity-defying, high...

The Heroes of the Storm open beta came out this week, and like millions of other gamers, I decided to download it and give it a try. For those who haven’t heard of it, Heroes of the Storm is what’s called a MOBA, a “Multiplayer Online Battle Arena.” The most popular MOBA is League of Legends, one of the biggest games in the world with hundreds of millions of dollars in revenue a year. Heroes of the Storm is Blizzard Entertainment’s attempt to get a chunk of those millions. I played League for several years, racking up thousands of games and becoming moderately good at it. But over time I drifted away from the game, without really knowing why. A lot of my friends have had the same experience. It wasn’t a bad game by any means, but something just stopped being fun. An hour with Heroes of the Storm made me realize everything that League was doing wrong. Every part of League that was frustrating, repetitive, or made players act like jackasses is fixed. I can’t spe...

warhammer 40k It’s been a long time coming but Bandai Namco and Behaviour Entertainment have announced that Warhammer 40K: Eternal Crusade is now available on PC. The third person shooter/MMORPG has been in closed alpha for quite a while now and is finally available for all. Stephen Mulroney, Senior Vice President of Behaviour Digital, said that, “It’s a monumental day for us to launch Warhammer 40K: Eternal Crusade after over 3 years of development. Thanks to the strong support and feedback from our Founders and Early Access contributors we’re ready to share our game with everyone. But this launch is just another step on a long road of free expansions and new content for our players. The endless war for Arkhona is only just beginning! Warhammer 40K: Eternal Crusade sees four factions – Eldar, Chaos Space Marines, Orks and Space Marines – battling it out, teaming up and participating in huge battles for supremacy. There are plenty of options though including 20 sub...