I've been thinking a lot about guns for the past few weeks. More specifically, I've been thinking about bullets, and how many of them we spray into the digital ether at this time of year, when the big
Wait long enough down by the tracks west of the Palomino Highlands at a spot somewhere on Los Santos' left thigh, and eventually a freight train will clacket along. Some of its carriages are insurmoun
Maggie Steber/Redux for Politico Magazine Michael Kruse is a senior staff writer for Politico . CLEARWATER, Fla.—Sitting recently on his brick back patio here, Michael Schiavo called Jeb Bush a vindic
With roughly 100,000 large merchant ships in the water at any time, scores sink, burn, break apart, run aground, or explode each year often with toxic consequences. It is Captain Nick Sloanes job to board troubled vessels and salvage what he can. Against heavy odds, he recently refloated the doomed…
Neal Pollack's quite brilliant confession of near-Lexus-soilage prompted many colleagues who knew of a past struggle to urge me to tell my story publicly. I Shat Myself In A Lexus Press Car I was very
The recent leak of the Xbox One development tools - along with the accompanying documentation - gives us a fascinating insight into the creation and evolution of Microsoft's latest console. Recent inn
Residents of L.A.s Beachwood Canyon are fighting off hordes of GPS-enabled tourists thousands a day who block their driveways, sometimes piss in public and, they say, pose a major fire risk as they make their pilgrimage to the citys most popular and unregulated landmark.
Game Design Deep Dive is an ongoing Gamasutra series with the goal of shedding light on specific design features or mechanics within a video game, in order to show how seemingly simple, fundamental de
L ast week, I took part in a comedy night to raise money for the charity Refuge , which supports women and children who have experienced domestic violence. It was a great night: partly because it rais
Reuters Last week was supposed to offer a noteworthy moment in the history of nuclear disarmament. Iranian negotiators met in Vienna with leaders from the United States, Russia, France, China, the U.K
Each Saturday, one of our four regular columnists will be taking turns to fill the weekend opinion slot here on Eurogamer. Today it's Jon "Log" Blyth. You can find out more about the columnists in thi
Starting today, four regular columnists will be taking turns to fill the Saturday morning opinion slot here on Eurogamer: game developer David Goldfarb, roving games writer Cara Ellison, actual pub la
The thought process for the piece was simple enough. Talk about games, I thought. There's so much to say. But everything kept coming out wrong. It felt like something else needed to happen first. Why
I can't drive, and I will probably never learn, but still: I hear very good things about the shift from third to fourth gear. I can imagine it, actually. I can imagine the moment. For the car, it's al
Published 28 December 2014 Share page About sharing Image source, Thinkstock By Michael Wendling New York New York City at Christmas is often considered magical, with the giant Christmas tree at the R
When Christmas approaches, the spies of the Five Eyes intelligence services can look forward to a break from the arduous daily work of spying. In addition to their usual job -- attempting to crack enc
The decision to remove Grand Theft Auto 5 from the shelves of Target and K-Mart stores in Australia caused quite the reaction, especially in the American gaming press. The move was discussed, argued o
NEARLY every night, Felicia Pope’s house fills with smoke and tear gas. Her four-month-old granddaughter has no idea why the air stings her throat. Her family feels trapped. But the protests outside o
Published 8 December 2014 Share page About sharing Image caption, Eric Garner and his family In the wake of several high-profile cases involving black Americans killed after encounters with the police
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I am a white person. I am occasionally a little bit clueless. I am sometimes a bit racist. Okay, now, hold on, everybody! I’m not, like, proud of that statement. The only people who are proud of that
Every year, more than 500 Americans will be struck by lightning and roughly 90 percent of them will survive. Though they remain among the living, their minds and bodies will be instantly, fundamentally altered in ways that still leave scientists scratching their heads.
It's difficult to look Modern Warfare in the eye without glancing at the long shadow that trails behind it. The small library of gradually worsening sequels and annual follow-ups, the abysmal Medal of
Around 11 p.m. Thursday, I nearly lost it. The servers kept kicking me off, and I kept restarting. The seventh straight disconnect brought me perilously close to hurling something expensive and smashy
In early spring of 2013, Christopher Nolan and his crew were scouting for locations in Iceland – looking for glaciers that could stand in for the icy wastes of a distant planet in Nolan’s new film, In
The Supreme Courts suggestion that a plea bargain is a fair and voluntary contractual arrangement between two relatively equal parties is a total myth: it is much more like a contract of adhesion in which one party can effectively force its will on the other party.
Airline pilots were once the heroes of the skies. Today, in the quest for safety, airplanes are meant to largely fly themselves. Which is why the 2009 crash of Air France Flight 447, which killed 228 people, remains so perplexing and significant. All about how a series of small errors turned a…
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Tadhg Kelly Contributor More posts by this contributor Games After Gamergate Is The Windows 10 Store The Next Step For PC Apps And Games? Editor’s note: Tadhg Kelly is a games industry consultant, fre
I was very excited when I saw that the Lexus GS450 hybrid was making an appearance on my weekly press-car schedule. While my fellow toilers on Automotive Grub Street fap themselves senseless over the
Kalief Browder spent more than a thousand days confined on Rikers Island. Photograph by Zach Gross In the early hours of Saturday, May 15, 2010, ten days before his seventeenth birthday, Kalief Browde
Over the weekend, a game developer in Boston named Brianna Wu fled her home after an online stalker vowed to rape and kill her. She isn't the first woman who's been forced into hiding by aggrieved vid
Over the last few months, we've seen many people — some of them friends, some of them colleagues, some of them professional acquaintances — harassed, threatened, bullied for daring to suggest that vid
Over the years, Obama administration officials have described Netanyahu to me as recalcitrant, myopic, reactionary, obtuse, blustering, pompous, and Aspergery. (These are verbatim descriptions; I keep a running list.) But I had not previously heard Netanyahu described as a chickenshit.
T he National Security Agency is using complex analysis of electronic surveillance, rather than human intelligence, as the primary method to locate targets for lethal drone strikes – an unreliable tac
Fifty years ago, President Lyndon B. Johnson made a move that was unprecedented at the time and remains unmatched by succeeding administrations. He announced a War on Poverty, saying that its “chief w
Andi Baker makes video games. She is one of the few young women studying programming at DigiPen , a private, four-year college offering bachelor's and master's degrees in, among other things, game pro
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