The Reports of Google's Acquisition of Valve are Greatly Exaggerated

Valve Software, the game maker responsible for Half Life and the stream of spiritual successors such as Half Life 2 and Portal, and the Steam distribution system seems to be in the sights of Google's acquisition...

Xbox Cheaper than Wii

Nintendo's Wii became the number one console on the market, despite being released after the Xbox360, due to it's low price and innovative controls. Well, Microsoft's dropped the price on all their Xbox 360s, making...

Double your rockin' with Rock Band 2

I am a product of the Atari Generation. My first video game was Pong. I've been playing video games for a quarter of a century. However, my wife, who is nine years younger than me, vaguely remembers Sega Genesis. She...

Spore's European Launch Hit By Bugs

The European launch of the year's most eagerly anticipated video game has been tarnished by a mysterious bug. Countless Spore players found themselves unable to login to the game's servers and share their creature...

[Updated] Spore reviews start rolling in; Leaked

[Updated September 5]Although Spore is supposed to be released on September 7th in North America, Australia got an early crack at the Massive Single Player Online Game. At the moment, Metacritic gives the game a 86...

I Dropped Out Of School To Play Guitar Hero

Blake Peebles, who made news earlier in the week by dropping out of high school to pursue a professional Guitar Hero career, goes in depth on his day gaming sessions (8-12 hours), money, school and girls.Read Blake's...

Criminalizing Emo: Russia Looking To Ban Goth And Emo Music

Russian Parliament is apparently in the process of drafting a bill to outlaw goth and emo music. Evidently they're operating under the misconception that, by eliminating the outlet for negative feelings, they will...

Video Games and Parental Responsibility

...from my personal blog. I’m a gamer. I do not feel guilty about it, nor do I think it’s childish. I was first introduced to video games by my mother and father when I was about 4 or 5 years old (i think). They...

Console Wars

Of you readers, the ones using gaming consoles should find this article interesting, it will answer much asked questions and for those know not much should find it interesting nonetheless. The warring factions...

Female gamers on the rise, but where are the heroines?

The number of female gamers are way up, according to the stats, but not surprisingly, the all too common scantily-clad dungeon diva is a less-than-appealing heroine for most women.  The article looks at female...

The Beauty Of GTA IV

Many media publications have been unfairly bashing GTA IV. Sure it's filled with hookers, drugs and death, but that doesn't mean it can't be beautiful.Full Story

What Happens When Today's Entertainment Becomes Tomorrow's Culture?

Since at least the 1940s, when Dr Frederic Wertham's Seduction of the Innocent argued that comic books were damaging our youth and causing juvenile delinquency, there has been an ongoing debate: does art create culture or merely reflect it?For years, the standard answer on...

Stephen King Steps Up for Video Games

This piece caught my eye since I've been posting quite a bit about the whole Manhunt 2 saga."Horror writer Stephen King has criticized plans by a U.S. state to ban violent video games, saying such a move would be...

Mercenaries 2 Official Release Date

Today, Electronic Arts and Pandemic Studios release the official release date for Mercenaries 2: World in Flames complete with a new trailer. The game will hit US shores on August 31, 2008, which means have you to...

72% of Americans are gamers

That number seems awfully high, doesn't it?  No wonder gaming addiction is becoming a problem."Research firm NPD Group is saying there's a lot of gamers out there and the numbers are growing. According to its...

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