10.19.2009 10:00 am
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
If you’re a girl, does that mean you like pink things?
And if you like pink things, does that make you a girl?
Game Guy has wondered about this lately since a pink video game modification for an Xbox 360 controller, revealed…
09.23.2009 9:30 am
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
In the real world, Americans have tried over the years, with mixed success, to extend rights and respect to citizens of all races and colors.
In the world of gaming fantasy, the matter of diversity appears moot.
So says a survey of…
08.22.2009 1:28 pm
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Do you park in front of a game console until day and night are almost indistinguishable? Is it easier to describe the Little Sisters in “BioShock” than your own children?
Then maybe you need the reStart Internet Addiction Recovery Program, a…
07.24.2009 12:19 pm
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
MySpace, the once-hot, now-not social networking site, will undergo a face-lift in response to Facebook and Twitter eroding its audience.
Owner News Corp. plans to turn the site into a gaming venue, one of the company’s executives told news services.
Jonathan Miller told…
04.20.2009 10:51 am
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
amers have taken a lot of body blows over time — attacks on their maturity, their character, their looks — because people have problems believing that anyone who plays video games can be a serious-thinking person at the same time.
It’s…
04.05.2009 5:06 pm
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
So, what’s next for computer-based gaming? Is it dying like newspapers, as some think? Or is there more to the medium than most people grasp?
A growing contingent of console lovers think the industry may shift away from it entirely, driven…
04.05.2009 1:39 pm
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
In Game Guy’s office are four Nintendo DSes — three Lites of various colors and an original model from 2004. In his hands at home today, however, is the new DSi — the “i” is supposed to mean “individual,” or…
04.03.2009 7:45 am
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Another notable name is set to join the gaming fray. Check out details of the new EVO Smart Console built on a Linux platform and just now hitting the market. Preorders will be accepted starting April 10, though with a price…
02.22.2009 11:59 pm
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
furlough [fur-loh] n. — a usually temporary layoff from work
Sometimes the business of journalism is just that, business.
At Game Guy HQ, managed by the Post-Dispatch and its parent company, Lee Enterprises, business is coming before pleasure for the game players around…
11.10.2008 3:01 pm
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
America woke up with a party hangover last Wednesday that it still doesn’t want to shake. The night before, we did something that many people thought impossible as late as that afternoon: We chose a honest to goodness African-American man…