The Blue Skittle. A Magazine about Gaming Community and Culture

Issue 18

When Words Get in the Way

Did you ever wonder why book reviewers worth the ink and paper their reviews are published with don’t provide numerical scores for the books they review? Consider that question while I explain why game reviews are so laughingly flawed.

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Issue 18

Featured Community: AnalogHype»

This month’s featured community site is, home to a collection of podcasts covering every corner of the gaming world. We spoke with Adrian Pottinger (aka DJ Krome) about the website and how he hopes to contribute to the gaming community.

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Gamers Can Cook»

Say goodbye to the winter blues, and hello to some good eats and drinks from The Blue Skittle staff…

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The Other Me: Trixie360»

I have known our next profiled victim for numerous years now as I convinced her to include my son in one of her world famous Gamer Spotlights, threatened to “own her n00b ass” in arcade games on Xbox, eagerly joined her in the first batch of Xbox Gamer chiX (XGX), joined the Xbox Ambassador program she created, and eventually moved to a new state to work for her for an absolutely wonderful five months.

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