Kill Screen Staff

It’s official. Winning games turns you into a jerk.

Finally, some explanations for why I don’t play Call of Duty online. According to researchers, when people win, they don’t take it humbly. It turns them into, well, jerks: “It seems that people have a tendency to stomp down on those they have defeated, to really rub it in,” said Brad Bushman, co-aut

The novel is dead. Long live games?

Roger Kimball, editor and publisher of the New Criterion, has a long, curmudgeonly eulogy for the novel in the Weekly Standard this month. He outlines the cultural conditions and requisites that are needed to keep the novel alive and of course, the internet and “instant gratification” is to blame. (