Yesterday, a bunch of America's leading tech sector executives met with US President Barack Obama. They were meant to be talking about the failure of Heathcare.gov, but things got really interesting when the conversation moved onto the fate of NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden.
Last night, an Australian TV commercial for the Wii U came on. My wife looked at it, then at me, then back at it, then at our Wii, before finally asking "wait, don't we have a Wii? What's this?"
As Curiosity settles into its second day out in the wide world, players worldwide keep tapping away at the massive cube inside.
Why was this small town of 30,000 people who could not vote in the U.S. presidential election so happy? Because…
President Barack Obama basically annihilated Mitt Romney in a new poll in the key swing state of Ohio. Too bad for Obama that the vote only involved players of the online game Maple Story.
Tonight, President Obama squared off against Governor Romney. Did either win one hundred percent of the debate? What about 47 percent? Oh, the suspense!
It's been a long road to the presidential election, which is less than a month away at this point. In case you've forgotten how tense and occasionally absurd the talking points and the personas of this political cycle have been, news website Slate has been recapping 2012's highs and lows with a series of…
It's that time of year again, here in the United States: the presidential election, and the seemingly interminable campaign for it, are everywhere. Of course, even though the election isn't until November, when you look back to the primary season, the campaign began well into last year. And Slate has taken to a video…
In Japan, people are saying President Obama's official Twitter account is following an anime girl. Make that, an anime girl …
Or the Chicago Bulls. Or Golden State Warriors. Or any team in NBA 2K12's Association or My Player modes, as Reddit user soadfan09 discovered today.
The line between gaming and reality blurs as the President and members of his security team watch the hunt for Osama reach its long-awaited conclusion.
With the United States' budget projected to hit a $418 billion shortfall by 2015 and a $1.3 trillion shortfall by 2030, the New York Times knows something has to be done. So they made a game.
Fresh from greeting the Super Bowl winners in Madden NFL 11
US President Barack Obama has given his blessing to a challenge - open to both children and professional developers - aimed at getting kids designing educational video games.
The winner of best overall infographic for First Lady Michelle Obama's Let's Move! campaign includes the release and successes of the Playstation in its timeline charting the growth of childhood obesity.
The controls? Too complex. As seen on Toby Toons.
So President Obama, once again, dinged video games in a speech
The Obama administration has sounded out Microsoft's main man, CEO Steve Ballmer, on the possibility of the company producing a video game which would task players with balancing the US budget.
If President Obama's rhetorical flogging of video games has you in high dudgeon, the ECA's built a form letter enabing you to point out to the White House how "video games can empower and educate."
I've got a re-cap of last Saturday's Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation right here
President Obama again referred to video games as a family-life negative in his Father's Day message. But Peter Moore - grabbing for publicity - challenges him to drop the rhetoric and see what they offer.
Bowser recently went into town to speak his mind about the dangers of unchecked power in the executive branch. Funny that a monarch would feel that way, but it's a free country, brah. More pics on the jump.
Yes, the Sims 3 can render countless chipper versions of ordinary-looking people. But can EA's June juggernaut handle global singing sensation Susan Boyle from Britain's Got Talent? Sure. And Obama, too, in this EA clip.
Imagine you're a kid again. A kid who gets to not only meet the President of the United States, but in the same meeting, call an astronaut. While he's in space. What would you say?
President Obama famously battled it out with his staff over keeping his Blackberry. Now we know why - he gets his BrickBreaker on every night.
