Archive for the ‘VIDEO GAMES’ Category

Microsoft Wants To Run Your Life

Tuesday, May 6th, 2008

Microsoft won't be happy until everybody in the world is hooked up to one of their products 24 hours a day. They're hoping to turn us into a planet of cyborgs with every man, woman, and child walking around staring at screens instead of sitting at home.. staring at screens. Related ...

Video Game Industry Enjoying Sales Surge

Friday, April 18th, 2008

The country is experiencing a major financial crunch but that's not stopping Americans from spending billions of dollars on electronic relaxation. March of 2008 saw $1.7 billion in sales of video games and gaming consoles, a 600 million dollar increase over the $1.1 billion from March of last year. A ...

PLAYING MADDEN IS BETTER THAN READING

Wednesday, December 12th, 2007

When I was a kid, a library wasn't the place to be. You only went there if you had to do a book report, or to hide out. Times are a changin, especially in Ohio. Registration begins Monday for the Akron-Summit County Public Library's third-annual Madden NFL PlayStation 2 video ...

GILBERT ARENAS BREAKS DOWN HIBACHI

Wednesday, October 24th, 2007

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u6sffEG94Uo[/youtube] Hibachi!! Probably the best catchphrase for an athlete ever.. I dare you to name one greater. But is it hibachi or is it Gil? I mean, his swagger is so severe that he could probably yell "lawnchair" or "air freshener" and everybody would think that was the hottest ish ever... ...

TAYLOR, MERRIMAN, OR FREENEY IN ‘08?

Saturday, September 22nd, 2007

EA Sports is holding an election for the cover of it's NFL Tour 2008. It seems like EA is rolling out a new NFL game every week. There's Madden, NFL Street, NFL Head Coach, NFL Dogfighting, and the hardest game of all, NFL Black Quarterback. Here's what EA's latest ...

SHAQ, THE SUPER LAKERS, AND HALO 3

Thursday, September 13th, 2007

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JwJel3t5roU[/youtube] Aries Spears does good impressions on Mad TV, but he kills these.. As far as "signing autographs", I don't know if that's what caused Shaunie to embezzle Shaq's money like she was his accountant instead of his wife, but it probably played a part. The Big John Hancock was infamously ...

CONSUMING WITH Wii

Thursday, August 30th, 2007

Video games are blamed for turning American kids into fat, lazy, slackers. I don't know how many hours of my life I lost to Atari, Odyssey, Coleco and Intelli vision, the Commodore 64, Nintendo, Genesis, Playstations and X-Box, but I do know those systems never got me drunk. The Wii is ...