Online gaming addiction is a serious thing, and in China where they limit gaming time and access it’s no laughing matter. But what happens when your addicted to gaming but you don’t have the money? Tecent recently reported a disturbing trend happening to China’s “Second Generation Farmers (农二代)” and their addiction to online gaming.
Nielsen, the folks who measure every single thing that is or could possibly be done with a television set, have released an analysis of gaming habits by ethnicity, finding that African-Americans game the most per day, on average, Asian-Americans the least.
Last night President Obama delivered the State of the Union. Written for posterity, perhaps, it’s still a policy speech, and policy costs. Here’s “Debtris,” reminding everyone that, a bilion here, a billion there, pretty soon you’re talking about real money.
If I’m Not Drunk, the satire “game” about DUI, was too subtle in its message of how pathetic you are when you’re drunk, there’s now Guardian Angel, which takes a more proactive stance in helping alcoholics avoid relapse.
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As Kotaku’s resident deplorable alcoholic, expectations for me are low enough that not only can I post something this reprehensible, it’s practically expected. So here’s the problem of drunk driving imagined as a 1990s-style game – note, this game doesn’t exist.
The Army is remaking its basic training for the first time in 30 years to cope with a generation that, as the general in charge says, has a courage and physique shaped by, you guessed it, video games.
Last night on a very special Family Guy: When Peter loses his memory, he needs to re-learn everything. That includes driving. Trouble follows when Lois hooks him up to the murder simulator.
