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Everything Must Go
Jeff Gerstmann/Senior Editor
"Is there going to be a landfill right next to the E.T. 2600 landfill filled with copies of, say, WWE Crush Hour for the GameCube?"

Insidious Beef Marketing
Bethany Massimilla/Community Manager
"It's a crazy, addictive, and lovably oddball game that happens to be directly constructed around a certain product, and it seems just a happy side effect that playing the game makes you crave the product."

Five Capital Letters, Two Little Systems, One Big Bloodbath
Greg Kasavin/Executive Editor
"Debates have raged on as to the relative merits of the Nintendo DS and Sony PSP. The obvious questions abound: Which is going to be better? Which one would you buy?"

A Viking Burial
Tim Tracy/Senior Producer, GameSpot Live
"Perhaps I should take this as a sign that I shouldn't get too involved with MMORPGs..."

From Azeroth to AMD: Adventures in Hardware
James Yu/Senior Editor, Hardware
"Almost all of today's processors have multiplier locks that severely limit overclocking options, but the Mobile Athlon XP is a throwback-type processor--an unlocked chip able to hit massive overclock speeds around 2.4GHz or more."

The Soundtrack of Our Lives/Games
Alex Navarro/Associate Editor
"A lot of game developers have yet to understand how they can use their soundtracks to draw the player deeper into what they're playing."

The Impact of Storytelling
Justin Graham/GuestSpotter
"The ending cinema is so elegant, so tragic, that, when combined with the sheer intensity of the game itself, it can leave you emotional."

So You Wanna Be a Gamer
Rev. Josephat Greymatter/Practitioner of Game
If you want to live the life of a gamer, actually playing games is only part of the equation. If you have thoughts on this lifestyle choice, why no submit them as a potential GuestSpotting column?