Siberia pretty much tops the "Why would anybody live here voluntarily" list. Back in the bad old days of Russia (the other bad old days, not the new Putin ones) being "Sent to Siberia" was satirists shorthand for being disappeared by...

Don't get me wrong. I don't get sensitive about phrases like "Geek Blackface" or "Setting back perceptions of gamers in the media." I can watch The Big Bang Theory and have a good time. Hell, I even enjoyed Pixels. But... ...

For a culture that's been kicking around for thirty years, we have a sad lack of shared traditions. This is why Four In February is my favourite time of year whether I participate in it or not - it's nice to feel a sense that everybody...

Christmas is just about the worst time of year for horror fans, and this looks like being one of the most barren yet. The last five years have seen the giants of the genre drop like flies in terms of both gaming and movies, and horror liter...

"The feeling you get is that you're one of those space monkeys. Push a button. Pull a lever. You don't understand any of it, and then you just die."       -Chuck Palahniuk           Blossom B...

Are you in need of a bit of timely mouthwash to cleanse the pallet of the nasty aftertaste of the past week? Then join me in a roundup of everything and everyone that's been called SJW by Twitter in the past seven days.     ...

Wrestling and video games. You'd think this would be a no-brainer. Wrestling, like reality TV and soap opera, is its own little bubble world which operates on its own set of rules and physical laws. It's not quite real while giving the appe...

It looks like people are angry at the internet for lying to them again. And by "The Internet" I mean "Jim Sterling," and by "Lying to them," I mean his famous comment that "Anita Sarkeesian isn't going to take your games away." Because that...