Gaming Bus

About Author: Christopher Bowen

Website: http://www.gamingbus.com
Description: Christopher Bowen is the Editor in Chief of Gaming Bus. Before opening Gaming Bus in May of 2011, he was the News Editor at Diehard GameFAN, a lead reporter for DailyGamesNews, and a reviewer at Not A True Ending, also contributing to VIMM, SNESZone and Scotsmanality. Outside of the industry, he is a network engineer in Norwalk, CT and a veteran of Operation Iraqi Freedom.

Posts by Christopher Bowen

Games I’ve Been Playing: Bioshock Infinite

Posted on May 23, 2013 | No Comments
I have to admit that sometimes, having what some would call rigid moral standards can sometimes bite me in the ass. The first Bioshock is considered one of the greatest...
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XBox One, And Marginalizing The Gamer

Posted on May 21, 2013 | No Comments
Microsoft revealed their newest system, the XBox One, and other than the assertion of allowing the transfer of used games1, things went largely as planned. I’ve been critical on Twitter2...
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Games I’ve Been Playing: Dead or Alive 5

Posted on April 10, 2013 | 5 Comments
Go figure. Right after I run an article that talks about how women are objectified in gaming, I go to playing one of the biggest offenders outside of eroge. But...
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Voting EA The “Worst Company In America” Belittles Our Medium (EDITED)

Posted on April 9, 2013 | 100 Comments
The image to my left is a powerful, visceral reminder of just how stupid it is to vote a video game company the “worst” in America. Theoretically speaking, Electronic Arts...
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Thoughts On Female Discrimination, #1reasonwhy, And The Status Quo

Posted on April 8, 2013 | 1 Comment
Women in the industry – or more specifically, the way they’re treated by a combination of gamers and their peers – are in the news again. At GDC, Brenda Romero,...
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Games I’ve Played: Puzzle and Dragons vs. 10000000

Posted on April 8, 2013 | No Comments
I’ve been on a match-3 kick lately. The genre spawned largely by the likes of Bejeweled has become almost ubiquitous nowadays, being the go-to choice for puzzle games, but Aileen...
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Wada Was The Start: Why Square Enix Is In Serious Trouble

Posted on April 4, 2013 | No Comments
I remember a few years back – I believe I was writing for DailyGamesNews at the time – when I heard a story about a meeting that now-former Square Enix...
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Review: Fire Emblem: Awakening (3DS)

Posted on April 1, 2013 | 3 Comments
Fire Emblem has always been one of my favourite franchises since it dropped in North America in 2003 on the Game Boy Advance. When I first saw it in a...
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Why John Riccitiello’s Resignation Is Bad For Gamers

Posted on March 20, 2013 | No Comments
I’m going to do something most writers don’t do and spoil the rest of my writing by linking to someone else who has more or less said the same thing...
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The Classic, Definitive Review Is Dying

Posted on March 19, 2013 | No Comments
For all of the issues deriving from the launch of SimCity – beyond my own schadenfreude relating to the situation – an interesting situation developed: reviews of the game ended...
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