Video Games

Cheating on your girlfriend is a big no, no in the world of relationships, but when you cheat her on a computer game, I wouldn't suggest standing in the driveway trying to reason with your upset girlfriend because while she was in the bathroom you decided to cross her ox driven wagon across the river because YOU didn't think it was that deep, and then gave the entire family dysentery on the Oregon

A gamer named Jomni posted this video and pictures of some Airbus planes with an Angry Birds paint job on his blog.  He made these virtual planes using the 'Microsoft Flight Simulator X' game on his computer. See his fleet of Angry Birds planes in flight after the jump.

A new academic paper suggests that the proliferation of violent videos games over the past 20 years has contributed to the more than 50 percent decrease in violent crime over that time period. The paper’s authors analyzed published studies on the topic of violence and video games, and were able to conclude that “though there is evidence that violent video games cause aggression in a laboratory se

One of, if not the most popular video game series of all time, Call of Duty, will be releasing it's latest installment 'Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3' on November 11, just in time to stuff  the stockings of video game warriors across the world. Check out the trailer after the jump.

PlayStation users will be happy to hear that the PlayStation Network is coming back to life, slowly.  Sony President Kazuo Hirai announced on Saturday that the network, that has been down for a month, is being restarted to get gamers back online. After logging in for the first time you'll be asked to update your software and to change your password.  The network is not fully back to 100% yet, for

I am admittedly way behind on this deal, but  I am addicted to Angry Birds. For those of you that don't play, my apologies, you will think to yourself  what? For most of you that are already passed all the levels you may remember trying to get those darn pigs.

I wouldn't say I'm a "gamer."  Video games don't consume a huge part of my free time, but I do enjoy playing from time to time.  It all started in 1989 when my brother and I were lucky enough to get a Nintendo Entertainment System for Christmas...

I love searching out songs I love covered on Youtube.  Sometimes they suck, sometimes they're better than the original! (If you haven't seen my Florence + the Machine's, "Dog Days Are Over" blog about covers I love check it out here.) I couldn't resist sharing with you one of my favorite instrumental songs covered: the Angry Birds Theme...

Millions of PlayStation Network users got the scare of their life yesterday when Sony announced that their personal information, including credit card data and billing addresses, may have been stolen by a hacker. On its company blog page, Sony said that it believed an "unauthorized person" obtained information from its 77 million-strong user base -- everything from names, to addresses to

Is this the nerdiest proposal or what?  Maybe that's why I love it so much.

Unless you have formal training in punching things, an arcade boxing machine is not something you should try out in front of other people, as the chance of embarrassment is quite high. That goes double for taking a video of your first attempt at the game, as the two young men in this video so unfortunately learned. (At least we think it's their first time. It has to be.)

Rooster Teeth, an Austin-based gaming website, is well known for its hilariously re-interpreted live-action video shorts. One of its recent videos, an Angry Birds movie trailer spoof, has now taken the Internet and gaming world by feathery storm.