For those of you that were just about to give up on the world, there might be hope yet.  A former LucasArts CEO is attempting to land himself a seat in Congress.  Although I’m sure that there are some viewpoints you’ll disagree with when it comes to his politics.  However, it’d be nice to have [...]

We’ve all heard of gamers so addicted to their games that they forget to function in real life.  Actually, some have even briefly been that person, but most snap out of it all on their own.  For those that don’t and need psychiatric help, one psychiatrist is working on creating a program specifically for the [...]

Those of you that have spent a little too much time gaming know the ailments that can follow.  Be it gaining just a little too much weight or suddenly realizing you’ve spent an hour explaining how to power level a character in World of Warcraft to a person who couldn’t really care less.  There are [...]

Happy Father’s Day dads, it’s a day to celebrate your parental achievements by listening to Obama tell you how you’re doing it wrong.  In true politician style, he went straight for the easy scapegoat too.  If you didn’t hear it yourself, you can probably guess it.  Yes, he went straight for video games.  I still [...]

You may have heard about the new Wii Vitality Sensor that was announced last week at E3.  It looked much like what you would have jammed on your finger while you’re sitting in the hospital.  Well it’s entirely possible that this Vitality Sensor could be used in order to detect when someone is not telling [...]

We’ve all heard about sex offenders hitting the internet and utilizing various social sites to connect with prospective victims.  Well of course logically speaking it’s likely that said offenders would branch out and use video games to do the same.  Although some gaming companies such as Nintendo do make an effort to prevent online chat [...]

WoW players get a lot of abuse, even from within the gaming world.  This is mainly because most gamers have experienced MMORPG games before and have therefore also had that feeling that it’s slowly sucking the life out of their soul.  Granted, it doesn’t have to be that way, but playing in moderation does take [...]

As kids, we all heard the nonsense about sitting too close to the TV, because it would hurt your eyes.  Of course, then followed the complaint that playing too many video games was going to do the same thing.  In the end, I’m fairly sure any activity that we enjoyed as much as video games [...]