A while back, Ripten.com put up a story featuring "Awesome Pixel Art." While I’m not questioning the awesomeness of what was featured, it was only a very small portion of the video game bead art community, and didn’t really give… Read More »

Finally, the wait is over, and the Holiday Orange Box Contest comes to a nice finale! I’d like to take a quick moment to thank all of the people who participated, whether it be the dozens who posted comments for… Read More »

The Gaming Night Before Christmas

T’was the night before Christmas, and all through the house, Not a gamer was stirring — not even their mouse; The stockings were hung by the chimney with care, In the hopes that a GeForce 8800 or console would be… Read More »

Will It Blend?: Guitar Hero III

I love Will It Blend? more than I probably should. It’s a brilliant marketing strategy, and it allows me to see what happens to things shoved in a blender without having to suffer losing the blended object, or cleaning up…. Read More »

I was one of the lucky ones. On the day of the launch of the Wii last year, I happened to visit the Circuit City website to see if any were there. Amazingly, at 7:30AM on Sunday morning, the site… Read More »

Dac's Guide to Black Friday Success

I know a lot of you are like me; you love geek stuff. DVD’s, phones, video games, flash memory, iPods, TVs, computers, graphics cards, and just so much more. But you know what’s even better than geek stuff? Cheap geek… Read More »

That game is what?

I was having a bit of fun the other day looking up terms on Urbandictionary.com, and I decided it would make for an interesting column if I started looking up videogame terms to pass on to you, the GN faithful…. Read More »

Some of you might be asking yourselves that age-old question – the one that has vexed mankind since the beginning of time – "who is Shigeru Miyamoto?" Ok, so nobody is asking themselves anything of the sort, but my answer… Read More »

WorldWinner, an online game competition provider, conducted a survey which yielded results that male and female gamers are equally competitive in gaming competitions. The survey, titled the 2007 WorldWinner Gender and Competition Survey, revealed that an equal percent, 73% to… Read More »

Community Day, ahoy!

Wednesday and Thursday, I left my Oregon home for the (at times) wonderful city of San Francisco to attend Eidos’s Kane & Lynch Community Day. Getting there was no big deal, even counting the fact I completely read the plane… Read More »