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Conan O'Brien's Grand Theft Auto for Yuppies

Do you shop at Whole Foods? Live in gentrified Brooklyn? Read the Sunday Times with no seething sense of rage? Then Grand Theft Auto: Liberty City isn't for you. But fear not, Conan O'Brien and his pals at Late Night have developed a kinder gentler version. Sample clip after the jump. More »

10:53 AM on Sat May 3 2008
By ian spiegelman
6,775 views, 16 comments

A Visual History of Home Video Games What was your first? The 2600? Pong? Colecovision? Good God, not Sega Genesis! Well, they're all here. [via cynical-c]

43 comments

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I'm Not Offended, I'm Just Bored: Why Gaming Journalism Should Stop Treating Women Like Meat


I'm not saying gaming news should become as mature a genre of journalism as politics, business, and world news. It's still a new field and will always be as subjective as covering music or film, with the accompanying celebrity culture. But now that women outnumber men in online gaming, party games like Rock Band appeal to both sexes, and casual games (popular among women and adults) are the fastest-growing segment of the gaming industry, gaming journalism should be an all-inclusive genre. Why does it still pander to a core audience of straight young males with outdated misogynistic material, to the boredom and frustration of all of us who can get laid outside of World of Warcraft? More »

3:46 PM on Tue Jan 15 2008
By Nick Douglas
28,007 views, 103 comments

Latest by exo: half of you people act like a buncha guys ran in there, dressed these women up as sluts, eat them until they acted like morons, filmed it, and then ran away. you seem to forget THEY CHOSE TO DRESS/ACT/RESPOND/LIVE that way. So more »