Rants & Editorials

  • Why are video game women so slutty?

    Posted on April 9, 2013 by Matt Rock
    A study conducted in 2012 by the ESA concludes that 47% of gamers ages 18+ are female, and that there are more female gamers over the age of 18 than there are boy gamers ages 17 and under.  The average age of all gamers, male and female, is 30 years, according to the same ESA [...]

  • Could the PS4 make DDR5 RAM cheaper?

    Posted on March 1, 2013 by Matt Rock
    Quite a few people are talking about how the PlayStation 4 is going to use GDDR5 RAM, rather than the more standard DDR3 RAM found pretty much everywhere else in the world of computing. GDDR5 RAM is almost exclusively used in high-end video cards, and that’s about it.  So how is Sony going to get [...]

  • PlayStation 4 could put Sony back on top

    Posted on February 22, 2013 by Matt Rock
    Sony’s PlayStation 3 was the first of their consoles to be panned and considered lackluster.  It did eventually outsell the Microsoft 360, of course, but it took a very long time for the console to build up solid momentum, and for all of the launch-era negativity stirred up by fans of the 360 and Nintendo’s [...]

  • A new Civilization 5 expansion: a wishlist

    Posted on February 2, 2013 by Matt Rock
    If you’re a big fan of the Civilization franchise of games, you’ve probably seen the news that a new expansion pack for Civilization V, tentatively titled One World, is possibly on the way.  If this turns out to be true, fans will soon be treated to a whole new batch of fresh content for the award-winning strategy [...]

  • How many of the ten worst genocidal leaders played video games?

    Posted on January 31, 2013 by Matt Rock
    In the past thirty years, a wide array of individuals and organizations have tried pinning all of the world’s violence on video games, claiming that by simply playing violent games, a person is somehow more likely to turn into a heartless psychopath hellbent on killing everyone and everything they see.  Of course, we all know [...]

  • A senator says video games cause violence... sigh

    Posted on January 30, 2013 by Matt Rock
    I remember it like it was yesterday.  The year was 1993 — I was thirteen years old — and I was celebrating either my birthday or Christmas (they’re pretty close together).  My parents gave me a Super Nintendo game that at the time was shocking and exciting, but I mainly remember it because each time [...]