Those Foxconn suicides a few years back? Company president Terry Gou says they weren’t caused by poor working conditions, but rather by “personal problems and family disputes.”

Instead Of Going To School, This Kid Made A Game Called Spacepants

When I was 12 I didn’t like school much — who did? But if someone told me I didn’t have to go to school and could use the spare time to do whatever I wanted? I’d probably just spend it trying to break my speed records on Super Punch Out!! I tell you what I…

Well, At Least There Aren’t Any Sharks

Luke Clough is a freelance artist who has done loads of work in the video game business. You can see more of Luke’s stuff at his personal site To see the larger pics in all their glory (or, if they’re big enough, so you can save them as wallpaper), click on the “expand” button in…

Rest In Peace, Age Of Empires

Today, July 1, Age of Empires Online is no more. Few will mourn its passing, but many more will nevertheless look to its demise as a sad event, given the attachment people once had to the words “Age of Empires”. The first Age of Empires, released in 1999, was amazing. As was its medieval sequel.…

Splinter Cell: The Younger Years Is Something I Could Watch

A dark, moody film about the early days of Sam Fisher sounds like the kind of thing Hollywood would want to dabble in. They’ve been beaten to the punch, though, by this impressive-looking fan project. You have no idea how many of these sorts of things we see every week. No idea. And so many…

Real-Life Fruit Ninja Is Very Dangerous With A Knife

He slices. He dices. And it all looks a lot more fun than running your finger across a phone screen. I pressed play on this and thought, whatever man, I can do that one or two times in a row. Then he kept going. And going. And going. And he absolutely will not stop, ever,…

​What Are You Playing This Month?

Sometimes it feels like the idea of a video game “dry spell” is a thing of the past. Other times, there really aren’t that many new games and it’s time to dig into the backlog. Here at the start of July, it feels a little more like one of those latter times. Then again, the…

It’ll Take Him 17 Days To Get To The End Of Minecraft

Thirty thousand kilometers. That’s how far JL2579 has to travel to get to the edge of Minecraft--more than twice the diameter of Earth. You can watch him do it live, right here. Unlike Kurt J. Mac, who is walking to the end of Minecraft via Let’s Play-esque videos, JL2579 is riding a minecart to the…