This is why some people shouldn’t be allowed on the internet. A Pennsylvanian woman recently lost her children to youth services due to neglect caused by an online gaming habit. According to WPXI news, Elizabeth Ruffner was so dependent upon online games that she neglected her house and six children – all under the age of 11 [...]

Almost as if they read our forum administrator Tren’s mind , a couple from Toronto decided to pepper a little flavor into their wedding Big Daddy style. Their wedding desserts, posted on Offbeat Bride , Tweeted by Irrational Games and picked up by Game Front (I believe that’s everyone), featured cupcakes graced with Sophia Lamb’s Blue Morpho butterfly laid out on a [...]

MMOs would be the greatest thing to happen to gaming if it weren’t for those pesky bodily functions of eating and sleeping. Sure, potato chips and coffee help combat these “necessities,” but coffee takes time to make and nobody likes when their WASD arrows start crunching on the crumbs wedged between them. What’s an MMO gamer [...]

Some of you out there may remember the NES peripheral called the Family Fun Fitness mat/Nintendo Power Pad from the days of gaming yore. If so, you may recall the short-lived game Stadium Events that accompanied the pad, but probably not, due its ridiculous rarity. The game experienced a limited release in 1987 and was off [...]

14-year old Robert Nay from Utah has just given his parents the perfect response to anyone bragging about their kid making the honor roll at PTA meetings. The young coder’s physic puzzle game, Bubble Ball, has recently topped iTunes free app chart with over 2 million downloads, according to ABC. Nay says he learned how to code [...]

Red vs. Blue will always hold a special place in people’s hearts as an icon of great machinima. While I will never call RvB into question, I would like to say that The Trashmaster, an 88-minute machinima film made using GTA IV, is definitely a force to be reckoned with. Created by French filmmaker Matthieu Weschler, [...]

Researchers at Stanford University are hoping to succeed where high school biology teachers have failed by using videogames to ignite passion for paramecia and microbiology. Researcher Ingmar Riedel-Kruse – in addition to having an awesome name – has led a lab team in developing what are being called “biotic games,” videogames in which players manipulate living, [...]

Nothing sets the internet abuzz like controversial litigation. Yesterday, we let you know that Sony is pursuing legal action against hacker George “Geohot” Hotz for exposing the root code for the PS3′s firmware allowing the use of homebrew on the console. Ignoring the precedent of iPhone jailbreaks being made legal in the US, Sony’s legal team forges [...]

The Wall Street Journal has recently published their list of 2010′s games that flew under the radar, and it’s a prime example of why videogames need their own specialized branch of journalism. Here’s the list with brief descriptions of what I can only assume these esoteric games are about. Honestly, who’s heard of these titles? Fallout: New [...]

Following the trend of company theft , another factory worked has stolen a 3DS to leak images to the internet. Only this time, the thief had the kindness to disassemble the handheld console to give us a glimpse at its hardware. Several pictures are posted below for your enjoyment. The entire photoshoot can be found reposted from TVGZone on Nintendo [...]

About half a year ago, rumors of an unannounced Mortal Kombat Arcade Compilation started making blog headlines when UK retailer ShopTo.net accidentally listed the game for PS3 and Xbox 360. Since the listing was promptly pulled and no further information regarding the possible project surfaced, the buzz fell to the wayside, being quickly overshadowed by the [...]

This could move a man to tears of joy: beer and PC gaming together in one case mod. At this year’s Consumer Electronics Show, one of the nifty new gadgets wheeled out by nVidia, the kegputer, was a gaming computer made inside of a keg of beer. Tom’s Hardware managed to snap some shots of it. Inside that [...]

With the recent trend of hacks of PlayStation products, both the PSP Go and PS3′s firmware , it was only a matter of time before Sony commented on their security efforts. In a statement made to Edge, Sony seemed confident that they can fix the problems via software updates: “We are aware of this, and are currently looking into it. [...]

Everyone on YouTube can play game music on their piano and, frankly, the internet is getting sick of it. So to break the pattern, a young lad by the name of Oliver Taylor has taken to playing game themes on Link’s ocarina in Ocarina of Time. He’s recently figured out the Korobeiniki, better known as the [...]

With the PSP Go cracked and the PS3′s root code exposed online, it’s a bad week to be Sony. Building upon the work of failOverflow – the same team responsible for cracking the Wii – KaKaRoTo has developed the first piece of custom firmware for the PS3. Though it’s compatible with any recent version of PS3′s firmware, [...]

Speed runs are a great way for people with too much time on their hands to make the rest of us feel inadequate. While there are plenty of YouTube videos available for insanely quick-paced games of the earlier Mario installments, GameSetWatch has recently discovered a video featuring a five minute and five second speed run of Mario [...]

Finally, an Oblivion mod that does more than provide a sword that’s a chiropractor’s dream-come-true . Known Elder Scrolls modder Thepal has announced a remake of the classic PC game Ultima VII Part Two: Serpent Isle using Oblivion’s engine. Though it means he’ll be scrapping his Infinity Eternal project – a fan-made Ultima IX – Thepal states the [...]

From a land where copyright law is considered more of a polite suggestion, Guangzhou, China, comes the latest in game-to-reality ports: the Angry Birds carnival game. While not quite as sadistic – or potentially awesome – as Neil Patrick Harris’s near PETA-rallying real-world Angry Birds suggestion at Spike’s VGAs, the carnival game does remain true to [...]

Sure, getting a PlayStation controller tattooed to your hands goes a long way toward showing your love of videogames. But turning entire limbs into videogame murals seems like a more dedicated – albeit eccentric – salute to gaming culture. And Ars Technica has found a man who’s done just that. Rich Criado has devoted both his right arm [...]

Tautology of the day: FarmVille for Dummies. That’s the title of a real book that’s coming February 15, 2011 from authors Angela Morales and Kyle Orland. Obviously, the intricate natures of point-and-click casual games are so complex that they require an in-depth how-to guide. Furthermore, since there’s yet to exist some magical place where a person [...]