Real Talk – I Play Madden. I’m Not Ashamed
There’s an awfully large group of gamers with this strange conviction that sports games aren’t games. Which, in principle, confuses me. You put it in a system, you pick up a controller, and you direct...
View ArticleTablet Attraction: Our Burning Desire for the Kindle Fire
In April 2010 Apple released the iPad to the public, launching the subsequent race to capture this audience with faster, more functional, and shinier tablets. All have failed, with the iPad...
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Top 5 Moments in Halo
With not one, but two Halo games slated for release this year I have had Halo on the brain lately. For many gamers of my age group Halo was the game that introduced us to the FPS experience and will...
View ArticleLegacy of the Drow’s Creator: Interview with RA Salvatore
Last week, I had the immense pleasure and honor to interview one of fantasy literature’s most prolific figures. RA Salvatore — famous for the Drizzt series — is running from coast to coast for the...
View ArticleState of Play: Mac Vs PC
Most of us have probably seen the previously ubiquitous all-white background commercial contrasting a trendy, young, and known actor who representing an Apple computer with the stodgy, suit & tie,...
View ArticleAdobe Pulling the Plug on Flash for Mobile
It’s hard for a software business to admit when its product is not the ideal solution to your problem. It’s even harder when that same business has been pushing for two years to get everyone to accept...
View ArticlePlayed video games? Red Cross says you might be a war criminal
Well, folks, it’s official. Some delegates at the 31st International Conference of the Red Cross and Red Crescent have begun to consider extending the reach of “International Humanitarian Law” – the...
View ArticleMerry Pixelmas!
Whether you celebrate Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, or any other of the myriad of End-of-Year holidays (or none at all, for that matter) one things is true: if you’re a geek, you love/crave/gotta have...
View ArticlePixelatedGeek’s 2011 End of Year Awards!
Another year come and gone, with its requisite glories and frustrations, with its ups and downs and to’s and fro’s, and its incredibly prosy introductory paragraphs. So with ANY ado to speak of, We at...
View ArticleBethesda Softworks Regains Rights to Fallout MMO
The rights to a potential Fallout MMO have landed back home at Bethesda Softworks, concluding a battle between Interplay and Bethesday since April 2009 when Interplay missed a two-year deadline to...
View ArticleReal Talk – S.O.P.A. & P.I.P.A.
We don’t want to live in a world of censorship. We don’t want people to tell us what we can and cannot say. We don’t want a government so afraid of its people that it threatens to restrict their...
View ArticleShe’s Got Game Weekly Wrap Up: January 15 – 20
Welcome to “She’s Got Game Weekly Wrap Up”! The newest weekly series that will focus on what news organizations and the geek culture have been talking about from the feminine perspective. This series...
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Top 5 Reasons to Not Overlook Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning
With The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim still spinning in most RPG enthusiasts’ systems it would be easy to overlook Big Huge Game and 38 Studio’s soon to be released Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning. However,...
View ArticleShe’s Got Game Weekly Wrap Up: January 27 – February 2
Welcome to the second installment of She’s Got Game Weekly Wrap Up! As Denver prepares for the Snowpoclypse, I am gathering all the interesting gaming and geek blurbs from this week for you to enjoy in...
View ArticleSincerity in Short Supply
You’ve probably heard about George Campbell’s The Hero with a Thousand Faces, even if only because of Star Wars. Campbell argued that the myths that have survived for thousands of years share a common,...
View ArticleAnita Sarkeesian Is Not Trying To Take Your Games Away
If you haven’t heard about the Tropes Vs Women Kickstarter, you should really read this article. Regardless of one’s opinions on Anita Sarkeesian’s gender-studies analysis of pop culture, the response...
View ArticleSDCC 2012 – IDW and Hasbro Announce My Little Pony Comics
Brony comic fans, rejoice! Hasbro and IDW Publishing have announced that they will be releasing a set of brand new adventures for the residents of Ponyville.Read OnSDCC 2012 – IDW and Hasbro Announce...
View ArticleTo the NRA, imaginary bullets are deadlier than real bullets
The Sandy Hook school shootings may have triggered a storm of political fervor for gun control laws, but there are those who are determined to distract us with tried-and-true diversions – most notably,...
View ArticleA Return to Westeros is Imminent!
HBO’s wildfire hit Game of Thrones is set to return March 31st, 2013. While that may seem like an eternity for the faithful, we can all sate our appetite with a few tiny glimmers into the upcoming...
View ArticleGames as Transformation #1 – James Trauben
How often do we hear games damned as bad influences upon children and the impressionable? In light of this latest surge of gun violence, and the predictable storm of politicians and pundits who would...
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