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The Carolina Games Summit Through the Eyes of the Ex-Core

By L.B. Jeffries

Kids, spouses, and jobs are all huge time drains for former hardcore gamers. The appeal of games with unlockable content, beating impossible odds, or even ones that just take a lot of practice no longer work on this demographic. They really play them to kill time.

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