Top 10 Gloriously Cheesy 80s Songs to Get You Motivated

It’s been a while since I’ve done a music post, and this is one of those fun top­ics that has been lurk­ing in my sub­con­scious for quite some time, because: A)  I’m on a diet. B)  I want to start to work out more. C)  Lately I need some extra moti­va­tion to power through my workday. […]

Friday Lulz: The Captain Kitteh Edition

Because it’s Fri­day, I don’t feel well, and I have absolutely noth­ing bet­ter to post, that means it’s time for another Fri­day Lulz roundup. This is where I bring you a hand­picked col­lec­tion of the shit that made me laugh the hard­est this week. Cap­tain Kit­teh The look on his face says he has com­plete confidence […]

J.K. Rowling to Write New Novel for Adults

Ever since Harry Pot­ter ended, rumors have been swirling that J.K. Rowl­ing has been work­ing on a new novel for adults. Today we get con­fir­ma­tion that the rumors are true. USA Today reports:

The author of mega-selling Harry Pot­ter series has an agree­ment with Lit­tle, Brown in the United States and Britain to pub­lish her first nov­els for grownups.

‘Play Games’ Page Updated (Finally)

My poor Play Games page has been neglected for an awfully long time. I had high ambi­tions for it when I first put it up, but to be hon­est, I just kind of for­got about it.  So for the past year or so it’s only had two games on it. Sorry about that. Today I finally got […]

‘Spirit Camera: The Cursed Memoir’ Trailer Drops, Yay for More Horror Games on 3DS!

Today Nin­tendo unleashed a load of shiny new 3DS trail­ers in their  Nin­tendo Direct pre­sen­ta­tion. The game that most caught my eye was Spirit Cam­era: The Cursed Mem­oir, which is the newest addi­tion to the Fatal Frame series of games.  It also has the dis­tinc­tion of being one of the only few hor­ror titles soon […]

First Look at ‘Amnesia: A Machine for Pigs’

Fric­tional Games, the devel­oper of Amne­sia: The Dark Descent—arguably one of the scari­est games ever made—has been teas­ing fans with hints at a sequel for a while now. Today we get our first look at some screen­shots, and later today there will be an inter­view with the game’s design­ers. Joys­tiq has the very latest.

iOS-Exclusive Games = Mac Envy? [Updated]

Today I saw a post over on the Adven­ture Gamers forums about a new indie adven­ture game for iOS that sounded like some­thing I’d really enjoy, so I got all excited—until I remem­bered that I can’t play it because I don’t own any iOS devices except for an old iPod Nano that I barely use. […]

FRACT is an Adventure Game Inspired By Synthesizers

If there was ever a game con­sid­ered right up my alley, this might be it. This awesome-looking game from indie devel­oper Phos­fiend Sys­tems fuses sweet synth music with clas­sic point-and-click style adven­ture gam­ing. FRACT is a first per­son adven­ture game for Win­dows & Mac much in the vein of the Myst titles, but with an elec­tro twist. As if this didn’t already sound amaz­ing enough, lead devel­oper Richard Flana­gan describes it as “Rez meets TRON.”

13 Unique Etsy Finds Inspired by ‘Labyrinth’

I was cruis­ing around on Etsy today (as I often tend to do when I have  money burn­ing a hole in my pocket) and came across some pretty awe­some hand­made cre­ations inspired by the great­est 80’s fan­tasy film,  Labyrinth.   Below is a sam­pling of the most inter­est­ing items I could find, which range from […]

Do video games ruin marriages? Survey says yes.

“Gam­ing wid­ows,” spouses who lose the atten­tion of their sig­nif­i­cant other to gam­ing, aren’t happy with their mar­riages. Accord­ing to a new study by Brigham Young Uni­ver­sity, exces­sive gam­ing often leads to unhappy mar­riages, and in many cases, divorce. The Chicago Tri­bune reports: The researchers sur­veyed 349 cou­ples with at least one spouse who plays a mas­sively mul­ti­player online role play­ing game (MMORPG), such as World of War­craft or Eve Online, about their mar­i­tal satisfaction.

Sneak Peek at Nickelodeon’s Upcoming Animated TMNT Show

Some stills of the new TMNT CGI car­toon have turned up on the Toyark. Though some designs of the show were revealed at last week’s Toy­fair, this is really our first look at other char­ac­ters’ actual appear­ance on the show. The show which will pre­miere on Nick­elodeon, still has no clear release date other than it’ll be show­ing up some­time in 2012.

Is Jim going to cheat on Pam tonight? [The Office]

You know, I’ve been say­ing how bor­ing Jim and Pam are get­ting lately. Last week’s episode of The Office ended on a very inter­est­ing note, which you may not have noticed unless you stuck around to watch until the very last three sec­onds.  In the final scene, Kathy is over­heard talk­ing on her cell­phone about […]

Review: ‘Chronicle’ is Surprisingly Good for an Angsty Found Footage Teen Film

Chron­i­cle is a sci-fi thriller about three teenage boys who come into con­tact with a strange, radioac­tive sub­stance found in a well near their Seat­tle home, and weeks later dis­cover that they’ve devel­oped telekinesis-like abil­i­ties. The story cen­ters on angsty high­schooler Andrew Det­mer, who begins doc­u­ment­ing his trou­bled life with video.  He con­stantly gets picked on, […]

New ‘Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles’ Live Action Film in the Works, Jonathan Liebesman to Direct

Hey, remem­ber a few years ago when we heard there’d be a new live-action Ninja Tur­tles film in 2011 and I got all excited about it? Just when I was start­ing to give up hope, I saw the news this morn­ing: Para­mount is in devel­op­ment on a live-action reboot of Teenage Mutant Ninja Tur­tles. It has been a rough tran­si­tion so far from comic to fea­ture, but the stu­dio is tak­ing the project in an unex­pected direc­tion. Michael Bay, Brad Fuller, and Andrew Form of Plat­inum Dunes—the pro­duc­tion com­pany behind hor­ror remakes such A Night­mare on Elm Street and Fri­day the 13th—are shep­herd­ing the reboot.

100 Romantic Couples from Video Games

It’s Valentine’s Day!  And what more could you want than yet another list about video game cou­ples?  I know you’re excited. Don’t hide it. I real­ize there’s no short­age of lists out there about video game cou­ples.  I’ve seen them all:   “Best Cou­ples”, “Great­est Cou­ples”, “Top Cou­ples”, “Worst Cou­ples”, and my per­sonal favorite, “Prob­a­bly Gay Cou­ples.”  (Etc, […]

10 Reasons to Buy a PlayStation Vita Right Now (and 10 Reasons Not To)

With the North Amer­i­can launch of PlaySta­tion Vita just days away, 1up has put together this in-depth eval­u­a­tion , which serves as a score­card of sorts to help you decide if Sony’s newest hand­held will be a wor­thy invest­ment of your hard-earned gam­ing dol­lars.  Like many gamers, I too am weigh­ing the deci­sion of whether or not […]

Gaming to Death: 6 Woeful Tales of People Who Died Playing Video Games

Yesterday’s news of a young man found dead at an inter­net cafe in Tai­wan is just the lat­est case of an increas­ingly com­mon occur­rence: drop­ping dead while play­ing video games. While many of us are able to play a lot of games and still lead (rel­a­tively) nor­mal lives, it seems we’ve all known at least one other gamer who strug­gles to main­tain a healthy gaming/life bal­ance. Here are six woe­ful tales of peo­ple who died play­ing video games.

Is ‘Doomsday Prepper’ Kellene Bishop a Scam Artist?

Watch­ing Kel­lene on Dooms­day Prep­pers, I got the sense the lady was a lit­tle kooky, but I could appre­ci­ate what she was try­ing to do and even admired her sense of pur­pose in help­ing other peo­ple pre­pare. But that was before I heard Kel­lene Bishop might be a scam artist. Today a ran­dom blog reader alerted me to this Ripoff Report about Kel­lene Bishop’s shady past run­ning her own com­mer­cial lend­ing bro­ker­age, in which she appar­ently swin­dled peo­ple out of hun­dreds of thou­sands of dollars.

Buffy the Fetus Slayer? Latest Buffy Comic Tackles Abortion

Today’s issue of Buffy The Vam­pire Slayer Sea­son 9 from Dark Horse Comics, Buffy shares her newly dis­cov­ered sta­tus as a preg­nant woman with her fam­ily and friends. She pre­sumes that the vam­pire on-again-off-again lover Spike is the father, although there’s some plot-purposeful inde­ci­sion about that. But more con­tro­ver­sially, the comic explores her deci­sion to have an abortion.

44% of the US are Gamers

Accord­ing to a recent study, in just three years 44 per­cent of the coun­try is now gam­ing thanks to a rise in social net­work­ing and mobile adop­tion. If the trend con­tin­ues with the same momen­tum, we could see a major­ity of the coun­try plant­ing vir­tual crops and set­ting up vir­tual kingdoms.