Due to the school shooting in Parkland, Florida, responsible for the loss of 17 lives, Donald Trump held a meeting at the White House informing the public of the threat of semi-automatic weapons, mentioning that violent videogames maybe to blame.
Author: Dylan Lepore
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Letter From the Editor: The Rebuilding Year
One semester, four months, 12 newspapers and over 200 hours of perseverance, determination, and creativity.
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Rabbit Hole: My 400 Writing Prompts
*If you fell down a rabbit hole, what do you think you’d find? 2/400*
If I fell down a rabbit hole, I wouldn’t expect some Alice in Wonderland type LSD crap. It would be dark, but not scary dark. Dark enough where I could see a light, but it would be at a distance. Always … at a distance.
I would walk to this light, but it would never get closer, but I would know that it’s always there. That inner hope of what if or what could be something brilliant (*side note: I don’t use the word “brilliant” enough, so there).
There would be no one else with me but myself. No one I’d find on my travels. No one I must talk to. No door to pass. It’s just me and my inner thoughts. I wouldn’t become mad, just alone but as long as the light is there … I’d be fine. Content. Calm. Hopeful.
It would be a challenge, but I would keep walking no matter what because down there it’s almost as time froze, but I’d keep moving. One has to keep moving. Where else would I go? What good would be complaining about my predicament? If I’m at the bottom of the bottom, the only place I could go is up … forward. To the light.
Somehow I knew I’d be fine, and so the light never went out.
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The Part-Time Gamer? Who’s that?
The Part-Time Gamer is me. Dylan Lepore.
It represents that my job as a videogame journalist does not mean just playing videogames all day long, which is rare; it is creating videos, writing news/editorial articles, recording podcasts, and most of making sure that I stay up to date with everything videogames, even if it is not PlayStation related.
It also represents my job as a student and how I am learning every day, and that I am actually in college, and college does a good job of keeping me busy with five classes, two jobs, and one of the jobs being the Editor-in-Chief of the school’s student-run weekly newspaper, the Tartan.
I knew that I never needed to go to college to become a videogame journalist because I was already freelancing for videogame news outlets before I went to college, but now that I am here, I have access to way more technology and resources to aid me in my journey.
Realistically I only play videogames for a couple of hours a day or not at all, and that might even be for a whole week. It depends on how much content, school work, and “work work” I need to get done first.
Lastly, I feel some people do not understand what I do and I hope this clarifies it.
So, what’s the “news” in videogames?
Well, I will tell you in the most straightforward way possible; a list!
- Think about a videogame journalist as a sports journalist. In sports journalism, the game itself is the focus of the news which they write about.
- The players are the characters in the game that we talk so much about because of that “epic” thing they did.
- The coaches and everyone else involved in setting up the game are the designers, writers, directors, animators, voice actors, publishers and so on and so forth.
- The different kinds of sports like football, basketball, and baseball are the videogame companies/major developers in making their games happen.
- The minor leagues or college level sports are indie videogame companies/developers.
- The Major professional sports leagues such as NFL, MBA, NHL, MLB, and MLS are Sony, Microsoft, Nintendo, Atari and many more.
So, with that list, I hope you now understand what the “news” is in videogames or anything for that matter. Just because you do not know anything about something does not mean there’s nothing to talk about or that it is not newsworthy.
I hope you enjoyed this blog post and my new logo change. I feel that it personally speaks to me in more ways than one and we’ll just see where I’ll go from here.
Thanks for reading,
Dylan Lepore, The Part-Time Gamer.
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Blizzard Cuts off Power at Radford University
Around 10:30 p.m. Saturday, March 24 the power went out at Radford University due to a blizzard surrounding the City of Radford.
The power outage first started with the sidewalk and street lights, eventually cutting off some of the building’s power entirely with emergency lights still working.
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Spyro Trilogy Is Being Remastered for PlayStation 4 This Year Report Says
The Spyro trilogy was reported to be announced as a remastered game, much like Crash Bandicoot N. Sane Trilogy, this year in March.
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The Debate on the Just and Un-Just of Wars
Is War Ever Justifiable?
Peter Kilner and David Swanson came to the Bonnie auditorium this past Monday, Feb. 12, 2018, to debate what is “just” in war and if there’s any real reason for having one.
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Destiny 2 Vendors Will Allow Players to Buy Gear Directly in New Update
Bungie was supposed to have a livestream for Curse of Osiris yesterday Tuesday, 29 but instead, Bungie canceled that an gave us a blog post that responds to the growing concerns of the community towards Bungie. For most of the community, they are getting feed up with Destiny 2 going firstly on the XP system jumping from 160,000 XP needed to earn a Bright engram from its original 80,000 XP which would change depending on how fast or slow you gain said XP.
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Bungie Releases a Free Trail for Destiny 2
Dive into the Alien World of Destiny Today
Bungie and Activision have released a free trial of Destiny 2 on this day of Now. 28. The free trial is available on PlayStation 4, Windows PC (via Battle.net) and Xbox One.
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“Okay” – A Short Story
One day I was sitting around the house just minding my own business, and a guy came through my window. I couldn’t comprehend the situation at all, and I was scared. I kept yelling and screaming but nothing. He was just lying there unconscious, and next thing I know, two guys wearing all-black clothes climbed through my window.
Dylan Lepore 