New York Daily News sports columnist Mike Lupica's one-source "exclusive" blaming the Sandy Hook Elementary massacre on video games and Lanza's seven-foot-long spreadsheet of death paints an unsubstantiated portrait just when the mental-health community and Congress are seeking answers on Lanza, video games, and truth in the face of NRA talking points.
Mike Mika, a programmer and father, decided to build a workaround for his 3-year-old daughter so she could "play as a girl." The result is a female-friendly version of Donkey Kong that's going viral to start off the week.
Discovered: Video games can help dyslexic kids read; pregnancy increases foot size; around 100 million sharks are killed annually; mammalian sperm swims upstream.
There's a conspiracy theory floating around that the controversial new first-person shooter game in the iTunes Store might be a counterfeit app, but the National Rifle Association has picked some curious timing to ignore the controversy.
The group may have put itself back on its lobbying heels, because they introduced a new app for the iPhone and iPad last night — complete with virtual assault rifles — which the NRA's mobile developers (and Apple) say is appropriate for children ages four and up.
At a meeting Friday the vice president offered a clean slate, but Congress and the NRA are calling, and gaming leaders have few defenses. Here's a look at the revenge of the nerds.
Amy Davidson on the platinum coin, Edward Kleinbard on Obama's plan B for the debt ceiling, Ezra Klein on Joe Biden in 2016, Meghan Daum on Hillary Clinton in 2016, and Liel Leibovitz on violent video games.
The correlation between gun violence and violent shooter games is dubious, but there are some very real links between the two industries, with gun-makers using these virtual worlds to advertise their products.
Perhaps the most talked-about moment from the NRA's already eventful press conference came when Wayne LaPierre called out the "corrupting shadow industry" of video games — then cited 10 year old titles like they were good evidence.
There was one piece of legislation introduced on the Senate floor yesterday in response to the Newtown shootings. It came ahead of any of the legislation from Sen. Dianne Feinstein or Vice President Biden's new commission. It was about video games. Why?
Today the country has blessed us with Pyongyang Racer, the first video game ever to come out of North Korea, and just like their satellite, it's not very good.
A series of new graphs make a compelling case that countries with more video games don't have more gun violence. The United States, as ever, remains something of an outlier.
Citing a palpable "aesthetic experience" in classic games while eschewing others, the Museum of Modern Art announced Thursday that it has assembled a new collection of video games. But the selections aren't necessarily what you'd expect.
The same company that introduced a console six years ago that you could actually play with your grandparents on Christmas morning just reinvented how we play video games, again.
A summary of the best reads found behind the paywall of The New York Times.
Discovered: Recreating the Easter Island statue march; scientists create embryo from three people; brain waves separate video game pros from n00bs; bacteria that act like electric cables.
ABC has announced a new himbo for everyone to ogle and eventually hate, so get excited. Elsewhere in show business news today: NBC and USA renew some shows that a few of you will be excited about, Tina Fey inks a new deal, and don't get your hopes up for a Hobbit Xbox game.
There's more than one way to profit from your experience in the military. For Matt Bisonnette, the former Navy SEAL Team 6 member who wrote a book about killing Osama bin Laden, that includes offering consulting services to a big name video game maker.
This sexist hiring video floating around the Internet helps explain why gamer culture has itself a sexual harassment problem.
A first trailer for Game of Thrones: Seven Kingdoms, a new video game based on the wildly popular fantasy book series turned HBO television show, has been released and despite it looking a little silly, it made us curious. What other popular prestige shows could be turned into video games? Let's speculate!
A French video game collector sold a collection of about 7,000 video games on eBay for €999,999.99 ($1.2 million) and that great rustling sound you're hearing is a million former gamers digging through their attics to see what their old copies of Sonic the Hedgehog.
Sid Meier, that nerdy wonderful man who created Civilization has finally weighed in on Reddit user Lycerius' epic 10-year game.
It's the year 3991 A.D., the three massive super nations, the Celts, Vikings and Americans, are locked in a 1,700-year war, the ice caps have melted 20 times over, and one Reddit user is now a decade older than when he or she started this game.
Discovered: Another invisibility cloak, science confirms sex, drugs and rock n roll, the dolphins are eating a lot of poison and video games teach kids how to be the best murderers they can be.
The New York Times' video game is janky looking, not that intensive, and lacks payoff (you just blast pieces of text and images off the page)--but it is semi-addicting, and totally proves the point that writer Sam Anderson tries to make.
Discovered: A magical flu vaccine, there's no such thing as a healthy video game, a quantum microphone, nicotine mouth spray, your boyfriend may think you're fatter than you are.
The popular video game beat Cain to the punch on his tax plan.
The company needs to adapt to the new gaming landscape
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Cartoonist Nick Anderson suggests it may be too late
Cartoonist Tom Toles on recent Supreme Court decisions
On violent video games, the TSA's machine-like training, and wacky teen lit
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Alcohol helps: "Not being able to see straight sometimes helps you see straighter."
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