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Obama Is Wrong: Why iPads and Xboxes Will Save Our Youth
Yesterday, among the challenges and inspiring messages in President Obama's commencement address at Hampton University, was something a bit unexpected:...
Gamer Plays Baseball For an Hour, Wins a Million Dollars
Wade McGilberry is laughing all the way to the bank after winning a million dollars to play a video game....
Video Games: Too Little and Too Simple
Completely engrossed in the action and strategy, I clicked the “turn” button just one more time, eyes barely managing to...
Enough Comic Book Movies! 7 Video Games That Need to Become Films NOW
It is, in many ways, a grand time to be a nerd or geek who is a fan of movies....
EA Lets You Play God From Your Living Room With Sims 3
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EymC48F6VlMGet the pizza in, buy the beers and prepare to sign your autumn away on news Electronic Arts will release...
Video Game Violence: An Astonishingly Simple Perspective
The year: 1961. The game: Spacewar! The objective: to kill the other enemy ship. The realization: this was the first...
Thank Thanko for thinking with their feet and releasing a USB pedal board.
Are you like most of us and despise moving your pinky finger over an inch to hit the Enter key...
Man With Way Too Much Time On His Hands Builds Ultimate SimCity
You can get famous for ANYTHING on YouTube. Anything. It's safe to say that Maxis' Sim City franchise is one...
Game Consoles Will Die: It’s Only a Question of When
The game console has been part of people's lives for quite awhile now — to walk into someone's house and...
10 Game-Inspired Food Items With Actual Awesomesauce
There are three rules that gamers follow when it comes to eating food and playing video games: must be fast,...
Forget Multi-tasking. Apple’s Game Center is the Big News.
When it comes to news pouring out of Cupertino today, many are understandably focused on multitasking. It was the thing...
Pixelated Characters Take Over The World!
Mama always said video games were going to ruin the next generation - and now look what's happened! In...
Will Steam Power Make the Mac a Gamer-Friendly Option?
Valve is bringing its popular Steam platform to the Mac. If you're not familiar with Steam, it's the super popular...
Google and Nintendo Team Up to Produce Completely Inexplicable Product
I’m no small fan of Nintendo. In fact, as soon as I’m done with Techi today, I’m probably going to...
It’s Like a Million Real-World Farmers Cried Out in Terror… and Were Suddenly Silenced
First off, there really is no end to the tide of Internet startups with names that sound like cartoon sound...
This Tetris Redux Is Jumbo-Sized Fun
http://vimeo.com/2419155 Remember Tetris? We do! We remember playing Tetris on our Game Boys for hours and hours, all while attempting...
Just In Time for Easter – the Holy Grail of Videogames
You’re loooking at Air Raid - a cartridge for the Atari 2600 that until now was thought by most to...
iCade, Part 2: Electric Boogaloo
Remember the iCade, ThinkGeek’s April Fool’s joke? Techi’s own James Mowery brought it to our attention yesterday. James expressed sadness...
Capcom Kills for a Good Cause (Honest!)
This one’s for all the gamers. Well, some of the gamers, anyway - I’m kind of big on Space Invaders,...
Your Joystick Doesn’t Cost Enough
Gamers are an elite segment of the PC market. They know their FPS from their RSI, and they're happy to...