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by | Oct 3, 2023

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…

by | Mar 17, 2023

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…

by | Jan 6, 2022

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…

by | Jul 9, 2021

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…

by | Oct 19, 2020

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…

by | Jul 8, 2020

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…

by | Apr 13, 2020

They say you have to train your brain. I did a sudoku today and had to call 911 with a brain cell tangled up in my pancreas. I think my coconut burned out. Now every time I add up, I…

by | Apr 13, 2018

Twin Galaxies, the organization that tracks video game high scores, stripped Billy Mitchell of his Donkey Kong records on Thursday. The memorable Mitchell, a bearded Floridian who wears patriotic ties in the front and a mullet as dated as the…

by | Mar 9, 2018

The president convened a meeting on Thursday with gaming executives to discuss violence in their products. The conference room doors remained closed to the press but days after the mass shooting that killed 17 in Parkland, Florida, Donald Trump noted:…

by | Jul 11, 2017

Monday So, let’s start with my hands. They’re ordinary hands. I can pour orange juice, make my wife a waffle, start my car, shave, do a part of my swimming with my hands. I am just a mortal with that…

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