Live Streaming Platforms See Massive Increase

According to a new report, during the Coronavirus lockdown audiences watched 7.46 billion hours of live-streamed content just in the third quarter of ...

Video Arcade Collection Dispersed in Homes

At QuarterWorld, customers were used to coming to experience rare pinball machines and other arcade games. But during Covid-19, once it looked like there ...

The Average American Baby Watches Nearly 3 Hours of TV Daily

Children are spending more time than ever in front of a screen, and it doesn't necessarily bode well for their futures. In 1997, babies and toddlers ...

Video Games Offer Second Chances and Endless Virtual Resurrections

Sam Leith is an English author and literary editor of the British newsmagazine The Spectator. He spends most of his time reading great pieces of writing. ...

Media Exposes Children to 15,330 Violent Acts a Year

In his book, Jeffrey Froh writes that an American child who watches three hours of children's television programming a day will see 4,380 good acts in ...

SWAT Prank Results in Shooting Death

Police in Glendale, Calif. recently arrested Tyler Barriss, 25, for his role in placing a false 911 call that resulted in the fatal officer-involved shooting ...

Video Gamers Looking For Meaning, Order and Certainty

The numbers for the $100 billion video game industry are astonishing:

• 155 million Americans play video games.
• 40% play a minimum of 3 hours per week.
• At least 34 million play about 22 hours per week.

Gamer Keeps Game Console on for 20 Years

We often learn at a young age that all things come to an end—including life. And yet, somehow we are always doing things to try to prolong our life ...

No, This Time You Are Really Perma-Dead

We loved this article from Wired magazine about video games: "In videogames, death is rarely fatal. If you take a shotgun blast to the noggin, a ...

Is Your Brain Hooked on the Ludic Loop?

Candy Crush. Angry Birds. Words with Friends. These games are everywhere and seem to be on everyone's phones. "A survey by Ask Your Target Market ...