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I’m less than 24 hours away from embarking on a journey to the famed desert of Nevada. I’ll be joining my fellow life teammates to celebrate the passing of one of our very owns bachelorhood. As the flurry of emails regarding last minute details fill my inbox, I have spent countless iterations mentally packing all needed items. While there were many additions specific to this particular adventure and active itinerary, I have some generic travel must haves that help with my piece of mind. Creature of habit much? Yes. For others that frequently find themselves referring to cities through only three letter airport codes, these may come in handy or best case you can tell me what I’ve left off.

For some reason, I always get people asking me what a “meme” is, maybe it’s because I work in a digital agency or maybe it’s because I speak in lol half of the time (whatever, I can’t help it – it’s like a second language to me).  When friends and family members do ask me about memes, I almost feel like an “ambassador” and get really nervous explaining what exactly what it is…I only want to give them the best definition without overwhelming them with my self-proclaimed loved for them.  But what IS a meme?  Stuff you find on the internet?  Internet fads?  A cat?  (It’s probably a cat.)  According to Wikipedia, a meme is “an idea, behavior or style that spreads from person to person within a culture.”  I think this is the original definition in the old-timey sense, so I’d take it a step further and say that it’s not just an idea or behavior that spreads in general, but that memes spreads digitally.  ON THE INTERNET.

This lovely month of May has us giddy with excitement for E3 as we prep ourselves for sensory and gaming overload.  Check out what we’re anticipating based on the rumors that have been swirling around for the 2012 show. Also in this issue, we dive into how the carrot of freemium gameplay has effectively converted free players to paying players as well as how gaming has gone from acting as an afterthought for traditional entertainment (think videogames released after a theatrical release) to being fully incorporated and even influential to these releases.

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Over the past few decades, yes decades, the controller has been our connection to the gameplay experience. With the boundless progression of technology, there has always been an analogous evolution in the way we play. This visual timeline takes us through the advancements in the way we manipulate our virtual worlds, from the very first console to the next generation of gaming platforms. Don’t get mad if you don’t see your favorite, just know that these were more important.

It’s hard to believe it’s been a scant three years since I wrote about how to fix college football by eliminating the championship game.

Go give that a read for a refresher and make these notes:

• Stop reading before you get to the predictions. Other than Clemson and Georgia Tech playing in the ACC title game. Stop after that one.
• How about a little pat on the back for the prescience in saying conferences should be 10-14 teams
• BC was coming off back-to-back ACC championship games and so it was only mildly insane to pair them with Alabama in a game. Sidenote: Please fire Frank Spaziani.
• Navy is joining a conference. Thanks fellas! However, BYU has left a conference. Sigh.

But here we are with another debate. The BCS is dead and a four team playoff will happen. But of course nothing is simple, so there is all kind of debate as to the best way to do this. With that, I present to you fresh in 2012, my NEW fix for college football in which I explain very simply how this should work.