Cody Thompson is going on a long journey so like any sensible gamer he’s packing his 3DS. In fact, the trip is so long he’s been saving up a bunch of games to fill the time. The 36-year-old former-EMS dispatcher is travelling f...

Remember The Wizard? Of course you do. Road-trip movie starring Fred Savage and Jenny Lewis, about a cross-country trip to participate in a Nintendo competition, mocked at the time, loved semi-ironically by hipsters nowadays. N...

We’ve yet to see signs that Sandy Hook murderer Adam Lanza was a hardcore gamer, let alone a fan of shooter video games, but TV pundits continue to discuss the role violent video games play in the coarsening of our societ...

Sequels are so comforting, aren’t they? From Halo 4 to Borderlands 2, 2012 was a year where publishers and developers built excellent sequels on the foundation of great, established franchises. It’s easy to catch a ...

More than a year ago, Abe Stein of the Game Lab at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology reached out to me about a survey he was conducting, an examination of sports video gamers. Stein, himself a committed sports gamer, wa...

Le Point writes: “A young Thai addicted to video games is dead in front of his computer after concatenation of several marathons night, police said on Thursday, seeking the exact cause of death.” Originally written ...

Ask just about any gamer for their thoughts on LEGO’s video game franchise, and you’ll likely hear the same thing again and again: “You know, they’re surprisingly decent.” And it’s completely true. Given...

Here we have yet another handheld gamer, and the Vita gamer needs holiday love, too. Perhaps more so than any other gamer, since the pickings are still somewhat (at least relatively) slim. What suggestions do you have for the V...

You know the friend. The one that has bought and seemingly played every game before you can even launch Steam to purchase that new title. You know the one. That exciting new one. But there are certainly some untouched surfaces ...