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NPD Group reports substantial increase in female gamers
For the most part, I think videogaming is in a very healthy place, commercially and creatively. It's easy to find...Gamespotting: The Hurt Locker
Kathryn Bigelow's Hurt Locker began its limited release this weekend. If it's not already at a theater near you (i.e....Why things in videogames are called what they're called
On his blog, Back of the Cereal Box, a student named Drew Mackie has posted an extensive and desultory look...Gamespotting: Mental
Are you watching the new Fox series, Mental, starring Chris Vance's indeterminate accent and Annabelle Sciorra's cleavage? It's like House,...Ohio judge blames videogames for murder
The headline up there isn't the sort of thing I'd normally believe. It's written like linkbait, to get irate gamers...What does Soulcalibur IV look like to a Christian?
Videogamers are not a single group. Some of us are Republicans, gay, disabled, ethnic minorities, not from America, or even...Humanism, pathos, and sims wetting themselves in the story of Kev and Alice
It's a time honored practice to torture and abuse sims. That's not going to change any time soon. It's easy...Wrangling raptors with the power of the Power Glove
"I love the Power Glove," Matt Mechtley says dreamily at the end of the video up there. "It's so...Gamespotting: Crossing Over
Crossing Over, available today on DVD, isn't a movie about ghosts. No suck luck. It's a turgid, sprawling, heavy-handed, facile...Videogame adds mad scientists and actual detainee to Guantanamo Bay
I'm all for videogames tackling serious issues. Especially political issues. If movies, television, and songs can do it, why not...Malcolm McDowell got the videogame role Bill Clinton wouldn't take
Imagine the world if Tom Selleck hadn't passed on the role of Indiana Jones. Similarly, it's come to light that...Market research company thinks you're a free-spender who exercises and eats out a lot
Hey, look, it's market research validating the time we spend playing videogames!Through the innovative use of data...this report challenges numerous...Robot Chicken creators to provide adventures for Spore expansion
Spore is long on personality, and short on content. But when creative people get their hands on it, some pretty...Where evil lives (not to mention eats, sleeps, and watches TV) in videogames
The architecture blog BldgBlog has posted an article by British videogamer writer Jim Rossignol about the architectural shorthand used by...When is cosplay more than cosplay? When it's a professional Silent Hill photoshoot.
What's the difference between a little cosplay and a photography shoot? The answer is probably these professionally staged and shot...
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