I am probably the only twenty-something in the United States who has never played the computer game Minecraft. A sandbox game that allows the player to build tools, buildings, and just about anything that comes to mind using in-world resources,…
I don’t play video games. My parents agreed that game controllers and TVs wouldn’t be a part of their children’s lives well before I came into the world, and while I played the occasional word game on a smartphone, video…
Today I celebrate my 43rd birthday and this world around me is no longer my world. Am I a premature old man? Not at all, I’m just someone who sometimes embraces cynicism to survive in a hostile environment. I can…
The 1984 movie The Last Starfighter focused on a lonely teenage boy, Alex, whose only real pleasure was found in playing a video game named “Starfighter.” Alex excelled at it, beating every level of challenge the game threw at him. What…
I saw it and recoiled. There it was, the lead story on my second-favorite website, HuskerMax: The University of Nebraska, home of my beloved Cornhuskers, was pumping big money into an esports program. They were building an esports arena, offering…
I am signed up for the polling agency YouGov, which pays its members to answer questions on political, social, and consumer-choice topics. Recent surveys have concerned my attitude toward rental services for fashion, cars, and phones. These state and corporate-partnered…
China’s largest tech company, Tencent, will begin using facial recognition technology to keep children from playing video games after 10 p.m. to enforce strict Chinese gaming regulations, they announced in a Tuesday press release. The announcement represents the latest in…
If there are any certainties in life, they are death, taxes, and that your favorite hobby will be infiltrated and taken over by social justice warriors. We’ve already seen this in film, sports, novels, comic books, and role-playing games. Video…
Dozens upon dozens of allegations of statutory rape, solicitation of child pornography, and sexual harassment of minors have been made in the past week against well-known players of Nintendo’s Super Smash Bros. Ultimate video game. A female player was accused…
