The student news site of Guilford College

The Guilfordian

The student news site of Guilford College

The Guilfordian

The student news site of Guilford College

The Guilfordian

The fight between Apple and Epic Games’ Fortnite

The fight between Apple and Epic Games’ Fortnite

Freddie Stultz, Staff Writer October 8, 2020

Epic Games, the company behind the hit game “Fortnite,” started a war with Apple when they created their own payment system to prevent Apple from collecting its standard 30 percent of app sales and...

Microsoft acquisition could reinvigorate Bethesda

Liam Connolly, Staff Writer October 8, 2020

Bethesda Softworks has made and published some of the greatest video games in the history of the medium. Many of us have grown up on classics like “The Elder Scrolls,” “Fallout,” and other fanatic...

There’s a new mainstream game Among Us

There’s a new mainstream game ‘Among Us’

Dakota McLean, Staff Writer October 1, 2020

I could hear the laughing and screaming mixed in on a late-night discord call. People tried to defend themselves as best as they could, explaining their trip through the map and where they were when a...

Bethesda drops ball with ‘Fallout 76’

Bethesda drops ball with ‘Fallout 76’

Paris Torrence, Staff Writer November 30, 2018

Earlier this year at the 2018 Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) Bethesda Softworks’ Game Director Todd Howard revealed the highly anticipated “Fallout 76”. Howard announced that “Fallout 76”...

Community gaming finds a home at Guilford

Community gaming finds a home at Guilford

Aubrey King, Staff Writer February 20, 2015

This is it. The whole game comes down to this. Your friends crowd around the TV. Your character races across the screen as you practically crush the controller in anticipation. A roar rips through the...

GamerGate: keep calm and respect women in gaming

GamerGate: keep calm and respect women in gaming

Aubrey King, Staff Writer November 14, 2014

Disaster has struck. The princess has been kidnapped, and now you, the valiant hero, must rescue the powerless victim. Sound familiar? Anita Sarkeesian, host of the web series Feminist Frequency, thinks...

Shifting gamer demographics should spell positive changes

Aubrey King, Staff Writer September 12, 2014

“Wait, you’re a girl?” cries the high-pitched, microphone-distorted voice of yet another young male gamer.  “Yes,” responds a confident female player.  What follows is a brutal demonstration...

QuakerQuest: opinions on video gaming at Guilford

QuakerQuest: opinions on video gaming at Guilford

Josh Ballard, Staff Writer April 19, 2013

“Evil pure and simple, destructive of social interchange, and of artistic effect,” wrote John Collier in “The Problem of Motion Pictures.” Such was the rhetoric against film in the 1900s. Similar...

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