Gaming Technology Blog

We here at the ol’ Gaming Technology Blog really love keeping tabs on the continuing tit for tat, give and take, mano a mano dialogue between people who think video games are bad, evil, unwholesome corruptions sent by the devil, and people who use their brains.
Example of people who use their brains? These psychologists who [...]

We all know online gaming– World of Warcaft, Lord of the Rings Online, and all those other immersive, sprawling time suckers– can get pretty addictive, and some of us are more addicted than others.
Well if you do your compulsive online gaming on a Mac, here’s something that might help: an application that disables your machine’s [...]

Don’t click on the image above! The link to the actual video is at the end of this post.
This Youtube vid-slash-flash-lecture is by a certain Daniel Floyd, who works at the Savannah College of Art and Design. In it he explores the oft-discussed relationship between video games and sex.
You can watch the clip by clicking [...]

Newsweek’s videogame pundit N’gai Croal had a nice thoughtpiece on on parents, kids’ gaming, ratings and Grand Theft Auto 4.
Not being a parent himself, Croal just forwards concerned parents (”Should I let my kids play GT4?”) to websites like whattheyplay.com, which, instead of telling parents whether or not to let their kids play the [...]

People of the 8-bit generation, prepare to flip over from sheer gaming nostalgia! Nintendo8.com is the place to go to play “low-technology” Nintendo classics like the original versions of Super Mario Bros. and Legend of Zelda… for free! I only received the news today, so excuse me while I go check if the old up-up-down-down [...]