House of Pain

Improvisation is a word normally associated with jazz and comedy. You are presented with a situation, it changes,…

It's been a strange but wonderful week for my sister, Elsa García. Of course there is the excitement of being in…

I can't, for the life of me, wear normal jewelry. Everything hanging, dangling, or strapped on me must have…

The mythology built up around Major League Baseball 2K is that the game could not do anything right. Eight-figure…

No wonder a former Japanese Olympic snowboarder is so into otaku ("geek") culture. It seems there a whole group of…

They say that in life, nothing is certain but death and taxes. The cost of living in the real world seems to get…

It started out as any other fall afternoon. High school student "Joseph" was in his room playing video games when he…

One of my earliest memories of videogames is also one of the last clear memories I have of my aunt, my father's…

Part of the appeal of the Batman mythos is that, in becoming his masked alter ego, Bruce Wayne took the pain of…

So much is made of NFL 2K5 and the blaze-of-glory conclusion to its rivalry with Madden NFL that it's easy to forget…