Back in the day they used to blame Elvis, rock n' roll, then the Beatles, AC/DC, heavy metal, the occult, Marilyn Manson, and even video games. If you're young and in high school, everything in the big bad world is out to get you. Now comes a new study from the National Center of Addiction and Drug … [Read more...] about Columbia University Research Group Demonizes Social Networking
Pixar Making Video Game Movie Called Wreck-It-Ralph
We realize reading Pixar and "video game movie" in the same sentence can be... disorienting. But it's not what it looks like. First of all, it's Pixar. For them, making bad movies is something that happens to other companies. And second, while it will apparently use more than a few famous video game … [Read more...] about Pixar Making Video Game Movie Called Wreck-It-Ralph
GameStop Removing Free Deus Ex OnLive Codes From New Copies
The practice of opening new games, taking out the disc, putting it back again, and selling it as new is by now verging on tradition. Consumers were appropriately outraged at first, but then just kind of rolled with it, which is probably the way this is going to turn out as well. And by this, we mean … [Read more...] about GameStop Removing Free Deus Ex OnLive Codes From New Copies
Russia To Spend Epic Amounts Of Money For Alaskan Chunnel
Flushed with petrodollars (or should it be petroeuros?) and confident of its economic clout, Russian officials are now actively promoting an engineering feat that could change the world—literally. The chunnel between England and France? Imagine one between Siberia and Alaska. Holy moley! If the … [Read more...] about Russia To Spend Epic Amounts Of Money For Alaskan Chunnel
Strange Privacy Shell Gives You Some Sort Of Privacy
In what amounts to fashion treason and an assault on rationality, a new strange form of garb is being showcased across the web. It's called a Privacy Shell and its name leaves nothing to the imagination—imagine a shell you cover yourself with in crowded places. As for the couple downstairs sharing … [Read more...] about Strange Privacy Shell Gives You Some Sort Of Privacy
Virtua Fighter 5: Final Showdown Coming To XBLA/PSN 2012
You might have thought you had played Virtua Fighter 5 about four years back. You thought right! And wrong at the same time. It's kind of the same logic that gives birth to about three new Street Fighter IV editions a year (we think, though make sure to Wikipedia it if you care that much), each more … [Read more...] about Virtua Fighter 5: Final Showdown Coming To XBLA/PSN 2012
Ubisoft Putting From Dust Online DRM Out Of Your Misery
Good news! Ubisoft's seething hatred for its customers seemed to have simmered down to a slow boil. As a result, Eric Chahi's well-received... RTS? God game? uhh... game will be drawing its first free offline breath about two weeks from now. We're not sure what finally led Ubisoft to the conclusion … [Read more...] about Ubisoft Putting From Dust Online DRM Out Of Your Misery
Could The Earth Have Seeded The Solar System?
It's hardly a theory, and the only guys testing if it were possible are running models in Mexico. See, the idea goes that in the darkness of our past when bacteria enjoyed dominion over a malformed world, particles broke off or were convulsed out of the Earth's crust, sending them to the stars. What … [Read more...] about Could The Earth Have Seeded The Solar System?
Enormous Robot Graphic Puzzle Hides Wall-E
Quite a sight , to be honest. Below is every single robot that has figured in movies for the past century. Movies and cartoons and TV shows to be specific. The challenge, however, is to spot Wall-E. That's why it's called Where's Wall-E (get it?) We've already pinpointed where he is, but we're not … [Read more...] about Enormous Robot Graphic Puzzle Hides Wall-E
Dragon Age 3 To Be Mix Of Origins and Dragon Age 2
Another day, another bout of reassurances from Bioware that the second game in the series was a complete and unforeseeable fluke. This is, however, the first time we're hearing anything about Dragon Age 3 except confirmation of its existence, so there's still room for something other than … [Read more...] about Dragon Age 3 To Be Mix Of Origins and Dragon Age 2
Blizzard Dota Will Be Designed For Novices As Well
Is DOTA and its increasingly numerous brethren far enough removed from its humble Warcraft 3 beginnings for us to attempt that Warhammer-Blizzard joke we've been working on? We haven't really gotten the details down, but it was going to be something really meta along the lines of how Blizzard is … [Read more...] about Blizzard Dota Will Be Designed For Novices As Well
D&D Daggerdale Dev Bedlam Closes Doors
We're not sure when we can stop attributing these unfortunate events to the omnipresent economic crisis and just start seeing them as the cost of doing business again, but it probably doesn't matter all that much for the 90% of staff currently suffering "temporary layoffs" over at XBLA game D&D … [Read more...] about D&D Daggerdale Dev Bedlam Closes Doors
