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The Collegian

Fresno State's student-run newspaper

The Collegian

Fresno State's student-run newspaper

The Collegian

Opinion: Casual gaming is dying

Opinion: Casual gaming is dying

By Isaac Marquez, Asst. Managing Editor Sep 17, 2025

As a kid, I remember watching my older brother play games on his PlayStation 2. I saw him almost beat Spyro 2 with no saves because we didn’t know how memory cards worked.  Seeing this made me fall...

FTL: You are the Stormtrooper

By Marcus Karby Oct 12, 2016

FTL (Faster Than Light) is an addictive Roguelike spaceship game of cat and mouse. You are a federation spaceship that has information about the rebel flagship. This is a take off on Star Wars where you...

Mount & Blade: A Game You Should Play

By Marcus Karby Sep 19, 2016

Mount and Blade is a game of enormous potential fun. It doesn't have great dialogue, the characters could be replaced with cardboard cutouts, and the graphics look as though it ran on the PS1, but that...

A Pokemon Go player battles the serpent-like creature, Arbok, while walking past the Quetzalcoatl statue in Plaza de Cesar Chavez in San Jose, Calif., on Monday, July 11, 2016. (Karl Mondon/Bay Area News Group/TNS)

Pokemon Go-ing, going gone

By Marcus Karby Sep 13, 2016

By Marcus Karby When the semester began, Pokémon Go was the new sensation sweeping the nation. Everyone and their dog had downloaded the new mobile app onto their phones and were running around...

FREAKS provide alcohol-free weekend entertainment

FREAKS provide alcohol-free weekend entertainment

By Johnathan Wilbanks Nov 2, 2011
The negative effect of alcohol on student safety, health, academics and personal lives has led Dr. William Thatcher, assistant professor at the department of public health, to begin an alcohol-free, on-campus social event for Fresno State faculty and students.

Library brings on the GAMES

By Reganie Smith-Love Sep 13, 2010
Sitting in the library between classes isn’t how many students want to spend their free time. Students may use this time to study and relax, but where’s the fun in that?

X marks the spot

By Lia Bigano Aug 27, 2008
During long breaks in between classes, students now have another choice on how to spend their time-they can play X-box in the University Student Union Recreation Center.

Oh Wow! Student gamers are gone

By Vicente Reyes Dec 3, 2007
Arcellie Santos (pictured) said that she uses the school arcade often to play her favorite games, which include Dance Dance Revolution Extreme and Puzzle Fighter II Turbo.  The USU arcade has seen a decrease in use as students are opting to play computer games instead.
The bright lights, loud buzzes and the clank of quarters being inserted into an arcade game is not something Fresno State students are into anymore –– or at least, that’s how it appears.
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