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 [...]

We discussed one of the downfalls of technology last week.  When you post something online, if you’re a public figure or a police officer trying to put someone in jail, that information can come back to haunt you.  It can quite possibly have some bad repercussions.  Apparently Councilman John Dowdy did not get the memo.  [...]

You might have heard about Worlds.com ranting about massively-multiplayer games infringing upon their patent.  The patent is apparently on a “scalable virtual world client-server chat system” and a “system and method for enabling users to interact in a virtual space.”  They have already began a lawsuit with NCSoft, who is a Koreak publisher responsible for [...]