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RIGA: Armed With Anonymity, Gamers Attack Women

RIGA: Armed With Anonymity, Gamers Attack Women

By Kate Riga October 27, 2014

GamerGate, like many other Internet controversies of late, has become so bogged down with online trolling and anonymous hate as to be nearly impossible to delineate. As the threats escalate, any credible...

Video Games Come Alive in Contrived Film

By Abby Keeble November 2, 2012

3/5 stars Do you really know what happens when the lights turn off and the video game arcades close? Disney’s newest animated adventure, Wreck-It Ralph, answers that question and more. While...

Video Games Offer MLS Publicity Coup

By Arik Parnass October 2, 2012

There was an article published recently on ESPN.com that recounted how hip-hop star Snoop Dogg (now Snoop Lion) became a soccer fan. While traveling in Europe a decade ago, the rapper’s “Madden”...

Game Over for Creativity?

By Ben Mazzara April 22, 2012

For a video game that involves shooting a lot of things, “Mass Effect 3” has come under heavy fire — from an army of dissatisfied fans and critics. Since its release last month, “Mass Effect...

It’s Game Time: Smithsonian Goes Geek

By Charlie Long March 29, 2012

Are video games art? Chris Melissinos, the curator of D.C.’s new “The Art of Video Games” exhibit, certainly thinks so. Fan boys, rejoice. Melissinos said that, “We are invited...

Gilbert: Vindicating Video Games

By Caitlin Gilbert February 8, 2011

"Playing games is a waste of time." We have heard, been told and believed this line ever since the Ancient Greeks tossed around sheep knucklebones in a game called astragaloi over 3,000 years ago. From...

Protect Video Game Rights

By Kevin Bunkley November 9, 2010

Very few people could have foreseen video games gracing the chambers of the U.S. Supreme Court, but it happened last week. The case, Schwarzenegger v. Entertainment Merchants Association, is the state...

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