What's the difference between a core gamer and a hardcore gamer? A core gamer plays to live. A hardcore gamer lives to play. Often these days gamers don't seem to understand who the core gamers are. I've noticed that in the last half a year people have slowly stopped using the term hardcore, and started using the term core to mean the same thing. It's not. People also use the term casual gamer these days to mean non-gamer, which seems like a silly contradiction to me. Nintendo recently came under fire for saying that Animal Crossing: City Folk was a core game for core gamers. The ...

I stumbled upon an interesting argument in the current video game console debate. In world wide sales, Nintendo's new product, the Wii (pronounced "we") is simply clobbering both the Microsoft XBox360 and the Sony PlayStation 3. Some anti-Nintendo gamers like to say that the Wii is just a fad, or that the Wii will lose it's appeal as HD TVs increase their market share. The thinking goes that since the Wii cannot do HD graphics (the number of pixels on the screen) that people won't like it when they get better TVs. The numbers are like this: 30 million American homes have HD TVs, 16 ...