News

Modern Warfare 3 Developer Pleads For Better Metascores, Discovers That’s A Stupid Idea

Why someone from Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 developer Sledgehammer would consider its fan-voted Metacritic score worth a get-out-the-vote tweet is utterly beyond me. It is by far the most polarising title among gaming’s annual releases, so a user score of 1.7 is probably to be expected, given how much gaming’s snobs cognoscenti despise all that it stands for.


March 19, 2011
News

Aussie Gunman Felt Like Computer Game Hero During Crime Spree

Last June, 19-year-old David Rowntree grabbed a sawed-off shotgun and went on a two-day criminal rampage, stealing two cars and committing multiple burglaries. Now Rowntree tells a Melbourne court that he felt like a computer game hero.


December 30, 2010
News

Man Hit SUV While Playing Real-Life Frogger

A 23-year-old man was hit by a Lexus SUV Monday while trying to play a real-life version of Frogger across a South Carolina highway, police say.


August 6, 2010
News

Really Bad Games: Satan Vs Jesus

From the creators of adult-themed adventure game Bonetown comes the Flash game Satan Vs Jesus, subtitled “Good VS Evil in an Epic Battle to Get Laid”, and it’s wrong in so many ways.


June 3, 2010
In Real Life

Science Figures Out Why Teenagers Are Stupid

While average blog readership is packed with the sort of hyper intelligent teenagers that have to be portrayed by 30-year-olds in TV dramas, many of the world’s teenagers are prone to doing stupid things for stupid reasons. New research explains why.