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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...Opinion: The First Amendment is only sort of cool.
I generally like the First Amendment. The second one kind of blows, but the first one has some fairly good bits: "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press;...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 StoryWhat 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... Rogers to charge bandwidth hogs extra
In what can only be described as a torrential crackdown, Rogers may soon charge heavy downloaders a penalty of up to five bucks a Gigabyte, to a maximum of $25 a month."Rogers Communications Inc. is gearing up to... UK Video Game Study: "Protect the Children"
A British government-supported review of current video game ratings states that the current system needs to be overhauled, incorporating more stringent ratings and extra bloatware for new computers that would... Game Over: consoles killed the video arcade star
An interesting feature about the demise of arcades, in this case in Toronto, though I'm sure the trend holds true just about everywhere.I can remember going to arcades as a kid and loving it. Double Dragon was the... Hitflip releases new features on their swapping site
A short time ago we asked you whether you would like to set the flip price yourself, and choose your swapping partner yourself. You (ca. 62% of the members who answered) said “Yes!” We’ve been hard at work updating the site to include this, and the new site went live at...
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