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Petition for official state Pokemon gone, will not be forgotten
We the People is the offically-sanctioned way to petition the Obama government: The right to petition your government is guaranteed by the First Amendment of the United States Constitution. We the People provides a new way to petition the Obama Administration to take action on a range of important i
Major League Gaming CEO: Competitive gaming is a "luxury brand"
The most surprising fact in The Economist’s interview with the CEO of Major League Gaming, the incomparably-named Sundance DiGiovanni? How about this: “I should point out that over 40% of our viewers have a household income over $100,000, so technically we’re a luxury brand.” DiGiovanni comes across
Ian Bogost, Looper director get in politest Twitter spat ever
Ian Bogost, the game designer and academic who is the closest thing the medium has to a guru, announced yesterday on Twitter that he did not like last year’s time-travel actioneer Looper. Am I living on another planet or something? rottentomatoes.com/m/looper/ — Ian Bogost (@ibogost) January 14, 201
How to fix The Old Republic’s "gay planet" problem
Makeb is a terrestrial planet with a type-1 atmosphere (breathable), and according to Wookiepedia, was invaded by the fearsome Hutt cartel during the second Galactic war. Fair enough. It’s also the only planet in Star Wars: The Old Republic, on which homosexuality exists. Yes, that’s right, BioWare
A rare look inside China’s… unlicensed World of Warcraft amusement park
Remember Joyland? The 30 million-dollar, 600,000 square foot WoW-themed, unlicensed amusement park in Changzhou? Of course you do! Well, now that the park has been up and running for a year and a half, what does it look like? Like this! Mists of Panderia indeed!
"Besides Dead Space, why is there such a lack of dismemberment in modern AAA titles?"
-Redditor Beast_Pot_Pie poses the question we’ve all been too afraid to ask.
Was the Sega 32X actually a great add-on?
In our shared popular narrative of the console wars, it’s axiomatic that the Sega Genesis peripherals Sega CD and 32X helped rig the charges on the Sega console brand before the bungled American Saturn launch in 1995 destroyed it completely. What if that’s not true? A pretty persuasive piece at revr
Are games merely fuel for the political "discourse machine"?
Ian Bogost has the best piece I’ve read on video games and violence in the weeks since the Newtown shootings. Writing about the current controversy over the game industry’s involvement in Joe Biden’s gun-violence task force, Bogost makes the arugment that politicians have no interest in discussing g
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