I swear I wanted one of these so bad when I was younger I sweat blood.
G4 has had a stranglehold on video game-centric TV content for the past few years. We saw it swell to a 24 hour game channel, then shrink down to 2-3 hours of original gaming programming a day, which is [...]
“I can see the future…soon phones will be carried around in pockets!”
Hey guys, 2003 is so rad. I mean, it sucks Buffy is off the air now, but we still have Angel, and there’s a new Strokes album coming out this fall, and what did you think of the Hulk movie? Oh, also, [...]
Have you ever gone to a sporting event, seen the lush digital displays that dwarf the field, and think “Wow, how slick would it be to plug in and play a couple games on that sucker?” Engadget tells us that, of all people, Jonas Brothers video director Steve Fatone did just that in the [...]
Does anyone watch MTV anymore? Their one flagship show, The Hills, tanked in ratings last season, and much like the younger generation of today, is a trainwreck of identities, flailing wildly in the cable stratosphere, attempting to find some type of relevancy. Good luck, Alexa Chung.
Anyhow, True Life, the network’s long-running documentary series, [...]
Hey, remember when we all pretended we were excited about Tiger Handheld games? Like Batman Returns? Man, we were good actors for about 20 seconds. That was the amount of time it usually took for someone playing one of these games to realize how awful it was and then set it down [...]
Equal parts brilliant and super-brilliant, Britain’s Look Around You is one of my favorite comedy exports from across the giant-pond-that-is-actually-an-ocean. The first season was a parody of old educational filmstrips that used to be shown in schools, while the second season expanded the running time to 30 minutes, and refocused the show as a [...]
We all love games. That’s why we’re here, right? We love to play them, love to talk about them, and love to think about them.
At what point, though, do you realize that you are obsessed with a certain game or games?
I know that I’m obsessed with a game when I close my eyes [...]
From the “Duh” vs. “Colloquial Wisdom” Department:
According to a new study conducted by Tel Aviv University (home of the Fightin’ Israelites!), gaming is good for your vision, despite everything your mom shouted at you while you were concentrating on your Super Metroid speed run.
Using FPS games like Unreal Tournament 2004 and Call of Duty 2, [...]
The great people at The Minus World have found the 30 most obnoxious stock photos depicting “gaming behavior.” Always cheesy, and sometimes uncomfortable to look at, these contrived photos are actually really expensive. You are far better off stealing them from the internetz (just kidding, Google legal counsel)…
Here are a few of my faves:
“Grandpa looks [...]
Two new reports were released recently claiming that gaming is bad for you. The first, via TechRadar, states that gaming can affect relationships in RL. The second was published in the Journal of Youth and Adolescence [via GamePolitics] states that gaming can affect the youth of today in “so many ways.” These [...]
