In Norway, a high school teacher is using video games to teach ethical frameworks, reports Laura Hudson for FiveThirtyEight: The first time I played the “Walking Dead” video game, I killed an elderly man. It seemed like the right thing to do…. Later, some unnerving statistics appeared on the screen: how my choices compared to…
A teaser trailer for Game of Thrones: A Telltale Games Series debuted this week, and it has us all asking the same question: could we not only survive, but also thrive, in Westeros? Players will control House Forrester, loyal bannermen to the Starks who are caught up in the chaos of the War of the…
New York Comic Con took to New York City's Javit's Center from October 9th through the 12th. Although the thousands of people who turned up arrived for a variety of reasons, one thing was clear: everyone was having a blast being there. After all, where else can a young Luigi run into a fully operational…
One of the most gripping elements, at least for me, is the vulnerability of the children and the lengths to which the adults will go to keep these kids alive – a theme that was front and center this past month as I almost simultaneously finished playing The Last of Us videogame and watching AMC’s…
She is the undisputed Queen of Girl Sleuths, the Uber-Goddess with a roadster, so it should be no surprise that the Nancy Drew Mystery Games by Her Interactive, truly truly have no peer in the realm. And I have played all of them. Every. Single. One. (Except #28, the most recent so NO SPOILERS) And…
Grand Theft Auto has gotten some major flack over the years for its portrayal of illegal activities and rampant imagery of violence, especially against women. However, September 17 will mark the release of Grand Theft Auto V, which contrary to the title will actually be the fifteenth game in the series. While the game is…
Now let’s be clear what I mean by “Video Games” here. I’m not talking about MMORPGs (Massively Multiplayer Online Roleplaying Games) like World of Warcraft. For me, its the MM part of that equation that’s the problem. All those other people. God. What a nightmare. And Call of Duty? No thanks. The learning curve on…
Nancy Drew is more than 80 years old but she is still going strong. The titian-haired wonder has been the subject of movies, TV series, hardback books, soft cover, and even graphic novels. Former Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton and Supreme Court Justices Sonia Sotomayor and Sandra Day O’Connor are among the many amazing…
I’m one of those people who shouts at a book when a character does something stupid or ignores a vital clue. I will smack the page with a “No, you idiot, the lamp. Look at the lamp. Don’t waste time with the knife.” This can be awkward when I shout it at the TV or…
A man in China hired assassins to kill his son. Oh, don't worry, it was just his gaming avatar in a series of online video games. The man, identified in foreign press simply as “Mr. Feng,” hired assassins to kill his 23-year-old unemployed son in the various online games he played. The son was very…
