Just when you thought that we'd never get a good crazy sound clip out of a Nintendo executive again, Satoru Iwata comes out with a doozy. According the President of Nintendo, "Customers don't want online games." This quote game from Japan Economic Spotlig...
[Editor's note: After all of our post-E3 coverage of the past week, James returns with his choices for what games stole his attention at the Expo.]Game of Show â" THE LEGEND OF ZELDAWhile there were a lot of games shown at this yearâs E3, the footage from...
Why is it that video gamers have a bad rap? What I mean is that people who play video games are sometimes considered to be nerds. I kind of take offense to that. In the early 90's, to be a video gamer was to be a nerd, a dork, an outcast of society. While...
Each week, Mania special correspondent Damon Brown, author of Porn & Pong: How Grand Theft Auto, Tomb Raider and Other Sexy Games Changed Modern Pop Culture, offers his unique take on society, entertainment and other issues of critical concern to Mani...
There aren't many times when I'm extremely irritated. But tonight, unfortunately, is one of those times. Luckily (for me anyway), I get to write the Gamers' Thumb tonight. And for those of you wondering why I'm in a certain mood, it's because I have just ...
I think it's almost over. It is this nasty little storm that I've been enduring, the arrival of way too many video games. I mean, I'm all for video games, but when you start tossing on an insane amount of course work, balancing time can be perilous. I've ...
Ever since the internet began to show up in most households, video gaming has begun to change. Obviously there are the multiplayer aspects that were never possible without some cords, two televisions and two game systems all connected together, but the in...
It's been a bit of a crazy week or so around the videogaming land. So in this week's Gamers' Thumb there will be a quick run-down of the big news along with knee jerk reactions. First things first though, the folks that will hopefully be providing a lot m...
Well,you know it's one of those nights when it's 4 am and you still haven't written a Gamers' Thumb. We've all been there. You go to bed, promise to finish your deadline in the morning or the next day, and then bolt awake and remember you forgot something...
It is always a bad idea to try to write a Gamers' Thumb at midnight. I say "Hey, I'll finish watching this football game, and then I'll go write the article". And of course, I sit down in front of my computer and realize that I have absolutely nothing to ...
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