The gaming industry’s relationship with the gun is a long one, but is it such a bad thing? Many of gaming’s critics would have you believe so. Gaming, in this day and age, tries to project a squeaky clean image. The movers and shakers in the industry profess themselves to be brimming with social conscience. [...]

Thanks to the great power and ubiquity of advertising slogans, the entire population of the world must know by now that there’s an “app” for anything and everything. Did you ever want to be like John Travolta’s super-intelligent character in Phenomenon? Imagine how incredible life would be with the ability to soak up knowledge like [...]

Gaming while listening to good music is one of life’s purest joys. Should we always be so keen to turn down the game music and pump up our own playlist volume? During the weekend, on a Sunday if I recall rightly, I was waiting in the queue for a Warcraft heroic dungeon on my PC, [...]

The subject of tasteless games seared across news headlines last week after a UK politician slammed Medal of Honor makers, Electronic Arts, for offering the Taleban as a selectable multiplayer option. While appreciating all politicians’ innate ability to jump on any passing bandwagon without fully appreciating the facts, it’s hard not to wonder why Taleban [...]

Think of a cliche – any cliche – a hackneyed old cliche will do. It’s all fun and games until someone gets hurt and all’s fair in love and war? People in glass houses shouldn’t throw stones. An eye for an eye. A couple of familiar names are throwing around their full legal weight – [...]

>look Room You are in a room. A container. Your container has an internet connection and a device with which you can browse your beloved internet. You spend a lot of time doing this. You are doing it right now, with focus, using the screen in front of you. >look screen I only understand you [...]

UK Internet users spend more time playing online games than downloading movies and music according to a survey by regulator, Ofcom. May we assume that a large percentage of that fraction is playing games on Facebook?  It leads me to wonder how many of them will be downloading this new movie come October. And after learning [...]

Cars! Great song. Also leads nicely into a lesser known fact. Did you know that Gary Numan was born on the same day that Gran Turismo 5 was first announced? I loved this series. I was a huge fan of GT’ 3′s (now classic) intro and the series as a whole nailed the genre and [...]

Yesterday, readers might have been forgiven for thinking my esteemed colleague-of-blog, The Right Hon Mr Thundergore, had mastication on his mind, when he wrote about Game Scone in these parts. Given food for thought, a morsel of an idea crept into mind, whetting my appetite for more cuisine-related frippery of a gaming nature. So much [...]

Confusion reigns (in our own heads) about this years Gamesco[n/m]. To be fair, we’re being misled by influential sites! The prestigious Wall Street Journal can’t seem to make up it’s mind over the spelling of this extravaganza. Two articles posted within 15 minutes of each other support each spelling.  One changes it’s mind in the [...]