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Gary Garcia, who teamed with Jerry Buckner to perform the 1982 hit "Pac-Man Fever," a song synonymous with 1980s pop culture and America's early love affair with arcade gaming, died yesterday at his home in Englewood, Fla. He was 63. More »
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So, we've seen tributes to Star Wars, Blade Runner (actually, a carry-over of a Fallout and Fallout 2 reference to that movie) and we know there's one for Indiana Jones in Fallout: New Vegas. That's three. There must be more. More »
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The star of classic films such as Silver Bullet, Lucas, and The Lost Boys, as well as Digital Pictures' Double Switch for the PC, Sega CD, and Saturn, actor Corey Haim died today at the age of 38. More »
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You know, pop-culture referencing television show Lost isn't the only form of entertainment that includes island fun. More »
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So I'm on my way home from an evening with Ubisoft and I happen across these new Fly Oakland tourism ads on the Bay Area Rapid Transit. More »
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I'm generally a fan of convergence, but it does sometimes rub me the wrong way when we start talking electronics or electronic media. Is it a good thing? A bad thing? Both? And what does electronic media convergence spell for games? Leigh Alexander makes the case for the positive points of the industries colliding this week, with enough links to keep you clicking for a while (lots of CES round up talk). So, what's the crux of the argument for why media convergence could be a really, really good thing? More »
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Remember those book things? With the paper and the words on 'em? Well, Steven Johnson, who works for something called "The New York Times Magazine", wrote an excellent book called Everything Bad Is Good For You: How Popular Culture Is Actually Making Us Smarter. I actually read this book! Mr. Johnson appeared on the (also excellent) television program The Colbert Report to discuss his book, primarily the mental benefits of video game playing on the developing brain and society as a whole. More »
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