May 24, 2014
Schlock wave
Uwe Boll makes movies everyone hates. And he won’t stop. While the German-born director’s ability to turn a mediocre video…
Category: Video Games
May 23, 2014
The long, strange journey of BioWare’s doctor, developer, beer enthusiast
It seems like an insane risk. But it’s not his first. In the early 90s, Greg Zeschuk was a freshly…
May 21, 2014
Evolution or exploitation? ‘Bully’ fuels latest generational clash: gamers vs. mainstream
It’s a controversy launched by a sentence. The video game Bully, from the makers of Grand Theft Auto, has been…
May 21, 2014
The NSA is more likely to find budding romance on World of Warcraft than secret plots
We live in a time when privacy is a quaint notion. The idea that what you say, no matter where…
May 20, 2014
Grand Theft Auto IV: A brutal new world
Expectations run high as the latest iteration of the famous – sometimes infamous – Grand Theft Auto hits stores on…
May 19, 2014
War crimes in video games draw Red Cross scrutiny
One of the world’s largest and most respected humanitarian groups in the world is investigating whether the Geneva and Hague…
May 19, 2014
Breathing lessons: How Adam Orth turned social disaster into triumph
Breathing is a basic, but complex human function. Breathe in. The muscles attached to your rib cage contract, expanding the…
May 19, 2014
Have gun, won’t travel: For the right price these gamers will die for you
This story starts, as so many great ones do, with a classified ad: “I will take bullets for you,” it…
May 19, 2014
Obama calls for research into link between video games, “media images” and violence
President Barack Obama today called for the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to conduct further research into the relationship…
May 16, 2014
Why someone is creating a game to be played by pigs awaiting slaughter
It started out as a way to stop pigs awaiting slaughter from chewing on each other. But video game design…