If this were real, you’d think these players were psychopaths. What about games like DayZ makes them behave as if they are? Originally written and published by Ryan Rigney at WIRED » Game|Life. Click here to read the orig...

Fine, so we’re suckers for long scrollable timelines. But this one is a doozy. Originally written and published by Peter Rubin at WIRED » Game|Life. Click here to read the original story.

It’s too bad this is based on the early, less talky trailer. I find these mashups are always more fun when words are being put into inappropriate mouths. But hey, at least we know who the villain is in this one! (That is ...

I’ll be straight up, and praise Ken Levine—the auteur of Irrational Games—for being honest, at the same time I jape at his justification for the generic bro-shooter motif of BioShock Infinite‘s chin-down...

I’ve never been one of those people that considers shopping “fun.” I shop because it’s necessary, because I need something. If gamification has taught us anything though, it’s that all it might tak...

Okan Kaya, an Australian sales manager from Sydney, has set a new world record for the longest consecutive gaming session, racking up 122 hours playing the recently-released Black Ops II. It’s a feat with a disclaimer, th...

By now, you should all be aware of the 1997 incident in Japan where a number of children were hospitalised after watching an episode of Pokémon. It was weird, and more than a little dangerous. So dangerous, in fact, that none o...

Part of a striking gallery of images over on Wired, showing Chinese authorities taking the torch to a pile of illegal electronic gambling game machines. In focus: Confiscated gambling machine bonfire [Wired] Originally written ...

Hello, baby. How are you today? I just wanted to tell you I’m sorry. I’m sorry for the things I’ve done, I’m sorry for the way I am. Let me make it up to you. Let me play you a love song on this plant I ...