Addictions in general are only a very recent inclusion in psychology as psychological problems.  Psychology itself is often under fire for its often less than exact scientific approach to some things.  So when psychology begins labeling things like “gaming addiction” as a...

In the past couple of months, we’ve been introduced to or seen a lot of information on games that are releasing this year.  Some have seen some marketing already and most of us who follow gaming news have a pretty good idea of what’s going to hit the Internet this year as the...

Whenever a violent tragedy happens in our nation, politicians immediately feel compelled to take advantage of the publicity to “do something.”  Or at least appear to be doing something.  That’s their job.  Right?  To “do something” when things go...

Alright, it’s that time of year again.  The time when everyone makes their predictions about what’s going to happen in the hopes that by the time you realize it didn’t happen, you’ve forgotten who it was that said it would.  Like politicians on campaign stumps,...

It all started with a short-sighted, myopic article by Angela Moscaritolo on PCMag.com.  ”Video game sales drop,” the article’s headline blasts.  From here, the lame information given by The NPD Group with its over-focus on just one segment of the overall gaming...

Currently, there is a meme that picked up speed early this week and has been running strong ever since.  It revolves around Twitter and the hashtag #1reasonwhy.  The conversation centers on women in the gaming industry and the blatant sexism that thrives in the world of game making and...

The gaming industry is going through some serious growing pains.  Console and traditional solo games are stumbling and losing market share.  Massive multiplayers are gaining popularity, but not nearly as quickly as another segment of the industry: casual games. Facebook and similar...

Next week, as long predicted, Star Wars: The Old Republic (SWTOR) will go free to play (F2P). Gamers around the Web are split on this decision, though most welcome the idea of F2P in general, they are not happy with the way BioWare plans to implement it in SWTOR.  So is the introduction...