http://dir.salon.com/topics/computer_games/?source=rss&aim=computer_games en-us Copyright 2007 Salon.com. Tue, 04 Mar 2008 13:03:00 PST Andrew Leonard Tue, 04 Mar 2008 13:03:00 PST http://www.salon.com/tech/htww/2008/03/04/gary_gygax/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/tech/htww/2008/03/04/gary_gygax/index.html?source=rss The co-creator of Dungeons & Dragons is dead. Let's all stop playing World of Warcraft for a minute, and remember him. By David Kushner Tue, 04 Mar 2008 13:03:00 PST http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2005/02/22/gta_killers/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2005/02/22/gta_killers/index.html?source=rss Two kids, 13 and 15, killed an innocent highway motorist. Was a violent computer game responsible -- or their sad lives? By Wagner James Au Tue, 04 Mar 2008 13:03:00 PST http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2004/12/22/year_in_games/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2004/12/22/year_in_games/index.html?source=rss Developers, critics, gamers and analysts weigh in: What they loved, what they learned, what they worried about. By Katharine Mieszkowski Tue, 04 Mar 2008 13:03:00 PST http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2004/12/02/no_fun_and_games/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2004/12/02/no_fun_and_games/index.html?source=rss Electronic Arts developers work night and day to crank out hits like "Madden NFL 2005." But now the elves are revolting. By Jefferson Morley Tue, 04 Mar 2008 13:03:00 PST http://www.salon.com/ent/feature/2004/11/30/jfk/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/ent/feature/2004/11/30/jfk/index.html?source=rss The controversial video game "JFK Reloaded" plays to our inner sociopath. But it also shows how government scandals fester in the national psyche until the truth comes out. By Laura Miller Tue, 04 Mar 2008 13:03:00 PST http://www.salon.com/tech/review/2004/11/23/myst4/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/tech/review/2004/11/23/myst4/index.html?source=rss Rich and evocative, "Myst IV: Revelation" is a worthy successor to one of the greatest computer games of all time. By Wagner James Au Tue, 04 Mar 2008 13:03:00 PST http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2004/04/13/battlefield_vietnam/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2004/04/13/battlefield_vietnam/index.html?source=rss In "Battlefield Vietnam," a new version of one of the most popular games in the U.S., you too can try to win a Silver Star saving your buddies in the jungle. By Peter Olafson Tue, 04 Mar 2008 13:03:00 PST http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2004/03/31/game_violence/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2004/03/31/game_violence/index.html?source=rss I'm not a violent guy. But I just cheerfully burned an entire marching band to death, then kicked a woman's head downstairs. OK, it's all virtual slaughter, but I'm starting to scare myself. By Andrew Leonard Tue, 04 Mar 2008 13:03:00 PST http://www.salon.com/tech/books/2004/03/04/codex/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/tech/books/2004/03/04/codex/index.html?source=rss In Lev Grossman's "Codex," an investment banker manages the neat trick of simultaneously getting lost in medieval England and a 21st century computer game. By Mitch Borgeson Tue, 04 Mar 2008 13:03:00 PST http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2004/03/02/eugene_jarvis/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2004/03/02/eugene_jarvis/index.html?source=rss Eugene Jarvis, legendary creator of "Defender" and "Robotron," is still making computer games for arcades. But his new bad guys aren't aliens -- they're terrorists who want to crash a plane into the White House. By Jon Azpiri Tue, 04 Mar 2008 13:03:00 PST http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2004/02/05/sports_video/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2004/02/05/sports_video/index.html?source=rss Long after Bo Jackson retired, the legend of Tecmo Bo lives on. For today's gamers, digital athletes are even realer than the real thing. By Wagner James Au Tue, 04 Mar 2008 13:03:00 PST http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2004/01/20/baghdad_gamer/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2004/01/20/baghdad_gamer/index.html?source=rss While missiles crashed around him, Zeyad struggled to keep Crash Bandicoot alive. Today, he continues to play, even as Baathist holdouts rage on and his frustrated countrymen demand a better future. By Jane Pinckard Tue, 04 Mar 2008 13:03:00 PST http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2003/12/23/gaming_and_its_discontents/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2003/12/23/gaming_and_its_discontents/index.html?source=rss Was 2003 the year of the great online multiplayer gaming flameout, or the year when a whole new approach to computer games finally gained real momentum? By Farhad Manjoo Tue, 04 Mar 2008 13:03:00 PST http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2003/12/12/sims_online_newspaper/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2003/12/12/sims_online_newspaper/index.html?source=rss What happens when a virtual newspaper covering virtual events runs afoul of a real corporation? By Wagner James Au Tue, 04 Mar 2008 13:03:00 PST http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2003/06/23/julia/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2003/06/23/julia/index.html?source=rss America's most bankable female movie star confesses that she is a hardcore shoot-'em-up gamer. What does this mean? By Bob Calhoun Tue, 04 Mar 2008 13:03:00 PST http://www.salon.com/ent/tv/feature/2003/05/08/crusher_g4/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/ent/tv/feature/2003/05/08/crusher_g4/index.html?source=rss Former "Star Trek" star Wil Wheaton was the main attraction on G4, the fast-rising video-game TV network. Until he quit, embroiling the network in a 21st century "Quiz Show" scandal. By Andrew Leonard Tue, 04 Mar 2008 13:03:00 PST http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2002/12/30/lord_of_the_geeks/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2002/12/30/lord_of_the_geeks/index.html?source=rss Tolkien provided the blueprint for one generation of computer games after another. But have today's whizz-bang graphics brought us any closer to Middle Earth? By Wagner James Au Tue, 04 Mar 2008 13:03:00 PST http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2002/11/11/vice_city/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2002/11/11/vice_city/index.html?source=rss Grand Theft Auto: Vice City goes where no video game has gone before -- into the dark heart of the 1980s. By Wagner James Au Tue, 04 Mar 2008 13:03:00 PST http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2002/10/04/why_we_fight/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2002/10/04/why_we_fight/index.html?source=rss A new breed of computer games is teaching today's teenagers how to wage, and win, the war against terror. By Henry Jenkins Tue, 04 Mar 2008 13:03:00 PST http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2002/08/20/jenkins_on_donahue/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2002/08/20/jenkins_on_donahue/index.html?source=rss More dangerous than Grand Theft Auto 3 -- a defender of video games is given the trash talk-show treatment. Here's what he really wanted to say. By Daniel Drew Turner Tue, 04 Mar 2008 13:03:00 PST http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2002/05/15/nvidia1/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2002/05/15/nvidia1/index.html?source=rss Keep the gamers happy, and the world is yours: How one 3-D graphics company shrugged off a recession and vanquished every foe. By Wagner James Au Tue, 04 Mar 2008 13:03:00 PST http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2002/05/06/games_as_speech/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2002/05/06/games_as_speech/index.html?source=rss A federal judge says computer games don't deserve First Amendment protection. His decision is wrong, stupid and dangerous. By Dean Takahashi Tue, 04 Mar 2008 13:03:00 PST http://www.salon.com/tech/books/2002/04/25/opening_the_xbox_excerpt/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/tech/books/2002/04/25/opening_the_xbox_excerpt/index.html?source=rss Bill Gates presides as Microsoft's WebTV and Xbox development teams duel for the honor of attacking Sony. By Dennis McCauley Tue, 04 Mar 2008 13:03:00 PST http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2002/04/25/opening_the_xbox/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2002/04/25/opening_the_xbox/index.html?source=rss Sales have been disappointing, and the co-creator of Microsoft's game console just quit his job -- a day before a book portraying him as a hero hit the bookstores. By Howard Wen Tue, 04 Mar 2008 13:03:00 PST http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2002/04/18/bnetd/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2002/04/18/bnetd/index.html?source=rss Is an open-source version of Blizzard Entertainment's online gaming service an illegal copyright violation, or just a good example of how the Internet works?