Literature professors ramble on about how George Orwell’s classic dystopian novel 1984 shadowed the global culture of technology and human capability (or enslaved inability). Joe Six-Pack from any street, USA will give you a detailed rundown of the NFL on Sundays like he’s a professor of ... Read more...
I was visiting my nephews, again. Within seconds of seeing me fiddle with my iPhone, my older nephew, Jack, who is 8, asked me, again, if my iPhone had any videogames on it. "Uh, no, sorry Jack," was my reply, letting a white lie skip through my teeth. I knew his mother and father might b... Read more...
Many parents worry, no doubt, about the effect video games have on their children. We list the ten most common problems recently investigated by researchers from 2006-present. An increase in emotional disorder symptoms An increase in and behavioral disorder symptoms Declines in verbal memo... Read more...
M.C. Frontalot, the founder of “nerdcore” hip-hop, has gathered a respectable online following injecting video games, Internet culture and all things geeky into a genre too often reserved for chest-thumping swagger. On his new album, “Zero Day,” released this week, Frontalot – nee Dam... Read more...
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Love him or hate him, Marc Ecko is quite the pop culture visionary. The NJ-bred fashion mogul has put his spin on popular titles like "Star Wars" and "Halo," but apparently Ecko once had his sights on something a little more high-brow -- a Macbeth video game? According to Destructoid, Ecko, who r... Read more...