Beyond the Rhetoric

To many people, video games are little more than a source of distraction and corruption for teenage boys. I beg to differ. When utilized appropriately, video games can be fantastic learning tools, even if only in a tangential sort of way. If real time strategy games teach resource management and first person shooters improve hand-eye [...]

The Bourne Legacy (2012) What do you get when you want to continue a franchise, but your main actor (and main character) are off limits and you start off with a new main character that isn’t even in the source material? It’s under these somewhat strange circumstances that The Bourne Legacy came into being. Despite [...]

So, I’ve been in Los Angeles since Monday for E3 Expo 2009, the biggest video game trade show in North America. It is here that you’ll find all the latest video game-related announcements from companies like Sony, Nintendo, Electronic Arts, Microsoft, Activision, and Capcom. The convention, if you want to call it that, isn’t nearly [...]