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Check out this gallery of political cartoons our community members created for the April 2012 Bitmob Writing Challenge.

Considering how expensive videogame development is becoming, it's getting harder to ignore how smaller and more simplistic games can do more than a dent to the AAA videogame industry.

Much like Snake, Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker snuck onto the gaming scene undetected. However, an HD re-release blows its cover wide open.

We're at war. No one wants to admit it but Humanity's under attack. One very specific man might be all that stands between Humanity and the greatest threat of our brief existence.

It's a hard choice to be sure, one we all must make.

We're extending the deadline to this month's Bitmob Writing Challenge on political cartoons to May 7. Check out these examples and then draw your own!

For the April 2012 Bitmob Writing Challenge. This cartoon is both political and highly accurate.

Create your best game-themed political cartoons for this month's Bitmob Writing Challenge.

Bitmob community members tackles representation of games in The Big Bang Theory, the Smithsonian, and more.

Coach Aris Bakhtanians' actions toward competitor Miranda Pakozdi during a Street Fighter X Tekken competition, promoted as Cross Assault by Capcom, demonstrated a destructive attitude toward women who game. We shouldn't celebrate "traditions" like misogyny anymore.

Indie Game: The Movie is a triumph if only because it presents video games in a positive, non-stereotypical light. Most importantly, it humanizes the development process -- something that's easy to forget in such a technologically focused industry.

How a nerdy show gets tv wrong

I have not finished Mass Effect 3, but without a doubt, I believe Shepherd has to die. We have created a being so monumental, his achievements so astounding, there is nothing left for him to do except ascend to godhood. There can be no conflict, at least interesting conflict, after the Reapers. Bioware has committed narrative suicide.

A factually accurate look into the future of gaming culture

The argument of whether or not video games are legitimately art ended last week when The Art of Video Games opened at The Smithsonian's American Art Museum in Washington, D.C.! Check out this interesting recap of all the exhibit has to offer, as well as some interesting thought you may have not realized about video games over the past 40 years!

There are some things in our gaming culture that lacks meaning. Why is that?

This is my submission for the March Bitmob writing challenge. In this article I talk about ways video games have influenced television, interent, and more. I also discuss the changes in acceptance of video games in our culture over the last 15 years.

Watching people play videogames on television and in movies is dishonest and embarrassing. Either gamers are lifeless husks glued to the screen or over-stimulated maniacs mashing on controllers. This medium deserves better.

What does the depiction of games by mainstream outlets and the Internet say about us and the medium? Create an article about it in this month's Bitmob Writing Challenge.

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