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 typical guy's first day using Google Glass

  Posted on February 21, 2013 by Matt Rock
  Google has been ramping up their advertising recently for Google Glass, the company’s new augmented reality headpiece, which is due to reach consumers sometime this year.  But the new glasses are probably going to be really expensive, and when you couple that with presumptive low stocks of the product at launch, your chances of owning [...]

• A new Yoda movie? Yay or nay?

  Posted on February 5, 2013 by Matt Rock
  It was recently reported that Yoda is headed back to the silver screen, starring in his very own stand-alone Star Wars film.  No one is sure if the film will tell the story of a young Yoda’s quest to become a Jedi, or an older Yoda, perhaps (and I’m just guessing here) telling the story [...]

• How to make your very own conspiracy theory

  Posted on February 4, 2013 by Matt Rock
  The internet is buzzing right now with rumors that pop singer Beyonce is a member of the Illuminati, a secret society that controls all the world’s governments and corporations and pushes to create a “new world order.”  Of course, Beyonce isn’t really a member of the Illuminati, because the Illuminati doesn’t actually exist.  then again, [...]

• 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 [...]

• Why is Indian tech support bad? Hint: it isn't the accent

  Posted on January 30, 2013 by Matt Rock
  We’ve all been there.  You’re having a problem with your computer or some other electronic device.  You call the company best suited to fix your issue, expecting to speak with a knowledgeable technical support expert, with an engineering degree hanging on their wall alongside bunches of certificates flaunting how utterly brilliant they are.  But that’s [...]