In game after game, there they are: guns. Weapons are a common trope. They are a catalyst for action and an…

It may seem ghoulish to the outsider. It will seem essential to the gamer. One of the most popular things to do in…
Discovery Channel host Bear Grylls does not appear to be familiar with Super Mario Bros., Half-Life, Ghost 'N…

Doom was released in 1993, so most guns in the game that didn't have the word fucking in the middle of them are…

Doom co-creator John Carmack also helps create rockets. At QuakeCon 2010 in Dallas, Carmack was displaying his…
We really thought that id Software would give us an update on Doom 4 at this year's QuakeCon. After all, id CEO Todd…
It's time to liveblog the QuakeCon 2010 keynote, everyone! What will id (and Bethesda) talk about?

You may know John Carmack, co-founder of id Software and lead programmer of Doom, keeps busy building space rockets…
John Romero haunts game developer id Software. Yes, he co-founded the studio and thus more than earned his place in…
More than 17 years after it was released, more than a decade after I was first paid to write about video games, I…
It's a week until QuakeCon, one week until John Carmack's keynote (which turned into a three-hour liveblog on an…

Summertime is more than beaches and barbecues. It's also when Hollywood releases some of its biggest motion…
He's faced off against gods, giants, and serpents so large they wrap around the entire planet, but even the mighty…
As promised, FarmVille is now available for the iPhone and iPod Touch, dooming millions to endless mobile toil on…

While a lot of people - most of them casual observers of football at best - insist on complaining endlessly about…
A team of scientists led by potential antichrist Craig Venter reports that they've successfully created a living…
Game designer John Romero and John Romero's hair ruled the roost during the 1990s. With titles like Doom and Quake,…
In 1998, Stanford University's Henry Lowood began preserving video games and video game artifacts. Lowood, along…

My current least favorite part of the modern video game is when it tells me to stop having fun for a few minutes so…
Reader Geist002 took the time to check out a school play about video game addiction in East Brunswick, New Jersey.