Poker players share their hard-luck tales online....

“The Lost and Damned� is set in the same dark version of New York that provided the backdrop for the original game....

Call of Duty: World at War balances the exciting action of a conventional shooter with a frank acknowledgment of war’s brutality....

Only less then a month til it arrives! I am actually slightly excited. Even though I've spent more money then I would like to say on the past games and the expansions, I think I will get hooked on this one as well. I've played The Sims 2 so much that is a bit hard for me to play for more then half a...

Game | Life on the death of next gen consoles in Japan. The Gallery of Fluid Motion. I like the second one too, though it takes a while to get going. Arlo Belshee on planning without estimating. As with his earlier promiscuous pairing experiments, there’s a lot to think about here… Inter...

Here's an article about how few women there are in the field of computer science, written by Randall Stross (which I noticed because of its rank on the NYT most-emailed list). It begins this way:ELLEN SPERTUS, a graduate student at M.I.T., wondered why the computer camp she had attended as a girl ha...

It’s been a while since I’ve posted anything of substance here. I’ve been too busy with real life lately that I haven’t had much time to pound out a full post. A lot of what I’ve had to say over the past few weeks has ended up on either Twitter or my shared items. Some ...

Sailors understand the phrase, “liberty call.” It means you are finally touching land and you have a few hours, a few days to spend all your money on souvenirs, salads and antiquing … at least that’s what it says on the official Navy website. The Grand Theft Auto IV game is c...

Darkly illustrated and full of gruesome historical facts, a Holocaust-themed game called Imagination Is the Only Escape will not be distributed in U.S. markets....

People ask - Should I buy a Blu Ray DVD player now? Well, it sort of depends. If I say the words ‘firmware flash’ to you, do you? a) think I’m speaking Flemish? b) slap me for being impertinent? c) slap me on general principle? d) sob uncontrollably? e) ask if you can FTP it? If yo...