What Poker Teaches Us
Organizations that oppose gambling will often claim that gambling has no benefits. This isn’t true. Beyond the enjoyment we experience, many forms of gambling can teach useful skills. Blackjack, for...
View ArticleNo, Casinos Do Not Create Cultural Wastelands
“The consequences for the common good (of casinos) are straightforwardly disastrous.” Ross Douthat, New York Times. November 2013. Opponents of casinos and gambling will often claim that casinos cause...
View ArticleIs It Time to Let Adults Play Online Poker Again?
Two and a half years ago Eric Holder and the U.S. Justice Department applied dubious legal logic to shut down one of America’s quintessential pastimes – poker games among consenting adults. The Justice...
View ArticleThe 30 Best Games To Choose From For Gifts This Year
If you’re still looking for Christmas gift ideas, seriously consider buying your loved ones a game. No, a game is not a set of Wüsthof knives or an iPad. But it’s more affordable and it will similarly...
View ArticleChris Christie’s Supreme Wager
The prospect of Vegas-style sports gambling in New Jersey now rests on the persuasiveness of a 45 page legal brief just filed with the U.S. Supreme Court. In a petition dated February 12 but not...
View ArticleThe Lottery And Big Government’s Gambling Hypocrisy
March Madness is a time when Americans of all backgrounds, faiths, and ethnicities come together for some good, clean, and likely illegal (depending on where you live) fun: gambling on college...
View ArticleSix Elements That Make For A Quality Survival Horror Game
Editor’s note: Several of the embedded screen captures contain graphic themes and images. It’s no secret that the quantity and quality of the horror genre in video games has been dwindling since the...
View ArticleHow We Got Our Son To Stop Gaming
Electronic gaming has ended. At our house, at least. Our son, 11, decided that gaming on his Sony Play Station 3 was a waste of time that did not move him toward his goals, so he sold it. He sees those...
View Article‘Hatred’: Gaming’s ‘Springtime For Hitler’
In October of last year, the Internet exploded with controversy over the announcement of the video game “Hatred.” Described by its own main character as the story of a “genocide crusade” in its...
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Why The Left Hates Video Games
This week saw the advent of the Electronic Entertainment Expo, arguably the most important video games-related conference of every year. Right on cue, a collection of the social-justice Left’s most...
View ArticleWhat Minecraft Teaches Me About Fatherhood
There are no mirrors in my son’s bedroom. There is a bed, a dresser, a goldfish, and a Moroccan pouf ottoman. There are dozens of green, blue, red, and black darts color-coded to match brightly hued...
View ArticleGamerGate’s Anniversary and the Rise of the VideoCons
What do you call a movement that began by calling out a self-described rapist and fighting to get funding for a media project designed by women? A movement whose mascot is a woman? A movement that has...
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No, Samus Aran Is Not A Trans Woman
“What?!” was probably your reaction when you saw this screen on your game console. You had finally gotten 100 percent completion on Metroid and were about to get the secret ending for your troubles....
View ArticleThe Contradiction Of Claiming Samus Aran Is Trans
Transgendered game developer Brianna Wu recently caused something of a stir in the gaming community with his transparent attempt to transform his Tumblr headcanon into reality. I speak of his article,...
View ArticleA Neophyte Experiences A ‘League of Legends’ Championship
Enthusiastic fans stream into Madison Square Garden. The atmosphere inside the building is thick with anticipation. Strobe lights and Jumbotron clips illuminate eager spectators’ faces. Tonight’s event...
View Article8 Things A Superfan Wants From The Final Fantasy 7 Remake
This post contains spoilers. If you love Final Fantasy VII as much as I do (doubtful), then June 15, 2015 was the greatest day in your video-game life since the first time you beat Sephiroth and saved...
View ArticleAnita Sarkeesian Wants Women To Have Their Cake And Eat Men, Too
Feminist agitator and self-proclaimed video game critic Anita Sarkeesian has had a bad few weeks. Her most recent video, “Women as Reward,” attracted nowhere near the amount of fanfare previous outings...
View ArticleHere’s Why People Are Going Crazy Over ‘Fallout 4’
“Fallout 4” releases today, and you’ll have a hard time finding anyone more excited than I am. When Bethesda Studios’ Todd Howard announced the game’s release at this year’s E3, I could already tell...
View ArticleHow Video Games Mainstream Conservatism
“A man chooses. A slave obeys,” said Andrew Ryan, the creator of the underwater city of Rapture and a political objectivist, moments before his death. On a list of phrases gamers remember most, that...
View ArticleDon’t Celebrate Video Game Politics Just Yet
I fell in love with video games in the early ’80s, in spite of my parents’ dismay and sensible, draconian time limit. Even on a speed run, I could never finish “Sonic the Hedgehog” in time, and didn’t...
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