The Blue Skittle. A Magazine about Gaming Community and Culture

Issue 12

I Lose Myself, I Lose My Self-Control

by fatherwags [Richard Wagner]
There’s a divot in the door of our pantry and a dent in the wall of our TV room.
My wife hasn’t noticed the divot and my explanation for the dent was tripping on a Rescue Hero, which caused my controller to fly out of my hand and hit the wall.
In reality, both [...]

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Issue 12

The Other Me: inajeep»

by Kiki Lewis [kiki kat]

Eric is a married father of two (a 12 year old gamer and a two year old soon to be gamer).His family is also comprised of two pugs and a lab puppy.He lives in New Jersey but longs for Key West or Alaska.His introduction to gaming started on a friend’s Atari [...]

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Featured Podcast: Gamespeek»

by Nicole Naipo [Koolaye]
Tell me a bit about yourself and your podcast.

Aaron Apple: Gamespeek has recently become a monthly video podcast that does of variety of things – review and preview games, talk about news we think is important to the average gamer, and try to be entertaining and creative. We used to release a [...]

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Wii Are Not Amused»

by Mark Bradley [MyLittlePlushie]
I was one of many individuals who was counting down the days to November 19th, 2006. I had followed the press surrounding Nintendo’s newest console since it’s debut at the Nintendo Revolution at the Electronics Entertainment Expo (E3) in 2004. Every piece of information that trickled out of the hype machine made [...]

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