Fascinating stuff, with one of the coolest headlines I’ve seen in 20 years of journalism:
“While my guitar gently beeps.”
Playing music games requires an intense focus on the separate elements of a song, which leads to a greater intuitive knowledge of musical composition. “When you need to move your body in synchrony with the music in […]

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See, now, I’m simply going to have to buy this, regardless. Via Reddit, may indeed be the coolest animated game intro of all time, and then some.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nuhy5-mfKvw

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The new obsession. I pretend like I’m on Route 30.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wDOyA0820h0

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Lovely. Courtesy of Max Blumenthal in The Nation, we learn that a Christian ministry with apocalyptic fundamentalist beliefs is distributing a video game to U.S. troops.
Why, what video game might that be? How about Left Behind: Eternal Forces:
Imagine: you are a foot soldier in a paramilitary group whose purpose is to remake America as a […]

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I’ve been a gamer for most of my life. I was about 10 years old when we became the first family on the block to have “Pong.” Owned an Atari after that, sort of got out of it during the college years, but picked up a Sega Genesis around 1993 specifically because my brother had […]

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