Over the past two years or so, bullying has become a national news, Last summer, 16-year-old Brandon Elizares committed suicide after a string of threatening text messages. In a highly publicized 2010 case, 18-year-old Tyler Clementi lept off the George Washington Bridge after a roommate secretly ca
John Thorne at the Atlantic has a terrific writeup on the burgeoning esports scene in the fractured North African nation. It’s your daily reminder that gaming can be a powerful agent for social good. The Libyan gamers themselves face major challenges related to the lack of digital infrastructure in
-On the heels of Obama’s announcement’s to pursue research on the connection of games to violence, Michael Abbott makes an appeal.
The charmingly-named redditor “hairyhaggis” started a thread earlier today in r/gaming that would make many an MFA instructor swell with pride: “Describe a game from the point of view of one of its NPCs. Every else has to guess what game and NPC.” His example: [I] “Go on adventure with robot dog and
Time was when most games were blips and squares. Then colorful sprites gave characters a more defined, less abstract look. Then came Pit-Fighter. In the early ’90s, the arcade fighting game from Midway came out and eschewed the cartoony look of classic brawlers like Kung Fu or Final Fight. Pit-Fight
Here are the games that the Writers Guild of America nominated yesterday for the outstanding achievement in writing for video games: 007 Legends Assassin’s Creed III Assassin’s Creed III: Liberation Disney Epic Mickey 2: The Power of Two Halo 4 Uncharted: Golden Abyss In all seriouness: is this a jo
My parents never bought me a videogame console when I was a kid. In fact, you can probably take a therapist’s eye to the whole Kill Screen thing as some sort of delayed rebellion against parental wisdom. But in a recent conversation with my father, my parents didn’t withhold the NES or Genesis from
You know Jerry Lambert. He’s “Kevin Butler”, the suit-and-tie-wearing, game-obsessd exec of many titles in PlayStation ads. A refresher: Well, the real life execs at Sony recently sued Lambert for breach of contract after he acted in a Bridgestone tire ad in which he played Mario Kart Wii. Sony accu