http://dir.salon.com/topics/gaming/?source=rss&aim=gaming en-us Copyright 2007 Salon.com. Mon, 06 Oct 2008 03:10:00 PDT By Tracy Clark-Flory Mon, 06 Oct 2008 03:10:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/mwt/feature/2008/10/06/porn_pong/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/mwt/feature/2008/10/06/porn_pong/index.html?source=rss From the prostitutes of "Grand Theft Auto" to cutting-edge teledildonics, sex has fueled the gaming industry, as the author of "Porn & Pong" explains. By Andrew Leonard Mon, 06 Oct 2008 03:10:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/tech/htww/2009/09/05/lessons_from_a_virtual_bank_run/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/tech/htww/2009/09/05/lessons_from_a_virtual_bank_run/index.html?source=rss When is a fake financial panic more real than the real thing? How about in an online sci-fi role-playing game? By Darrell Etherington Mon, 06 Oct 2008 03:10:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/tech/giga_om/mac_love/2009/01/29/higher_priced_premium_game_section_coming_to_app_store/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/tech/giga_om/mac_love/2009/01/29/higher_priced_premium_game_section_coming_to_app_store/index.html?source=rss By Rachel Shukert Mon, 06 Oct 2008 03:10:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/mwt/feature/2008/05/27/rock_band/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/mwt/feature/2008/05/27/rock_band/index.html?source=rss My husband's video game addiction was driving me crazy. Then we found an obsession we could share. By Juan Cole Mon, 06 Oct 2008 03:10:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2008/02/25/avatars/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2008/02/25/avatars/index.html?source=rss In virtual worlds, does it take two terrorists to tango? And how much should we worry about those secret stockpiles of cartoon weapons? By Tanner Morrison Mon, 06 Oct 2008 03:10:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/tech/giga_om/mac_love/2009/01/14/the_ipod_touch_the_new_age_gameboy/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/tech/giga_om/mac_love/2009/01/14/the_ipod_touch_the_new_age_gameboy/index.html?source=rss By Andrew Leonard Mon, 06 Oct 2008 03:10:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/tech/htww/2007/10/10/world_cyber_games/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/tech/htww/2007/10/10/world_cyber_games/index.html?source=rss At the World Cyber Games in Seattle, the competition spills over from Starcraft and Counterstrike to good-old fashioned nationalist flag-waving By Tracy Clark-Flory Mon, 06 Oct 2008 03:10:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/mwt/broadsheet/2007/10/05/gaming/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/mwt/broadsheet/2007/10/05/gaming/index.html?source=rss Hours of video game play improves women's spatial abilties, says a new study. By Eliza Strickland Mon, 06 Oct 2008 03:10:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2007/07/10/alternative_reality_games/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2007/07/10/alternative_reality_games/index.html?source=rss Collaborative intelligence wiz Jane McGonigal designs alternate reality games to solve the world's biggest problems. Enviros love her -- but so does the military. By Andrew Leonard Mon, 06 Oct 2008 03:10:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/tech/htww/2006/08/24/jenkins/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/tech/htww/2006/08/24/jenkins/index.html?source=rss More fun with fantasy gaming and the history of Sino-Japanese hostility By Andrew Leonard Mon, 06 Oct 2008 03:10:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/tech/htww/2006/07/11/ozymandias/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/tech/htww/2006/07/11/ozymandias/index.html?source=rss A red sun rising on the wrong dynasty starts an online riot By Andrew Leonard Mon, 06 Oct 2008 03:10:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/tech/htww/2006/06/14/chinese_games/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/tech/htww/2006/06/14/chinese_games/index.html?source=rss Chinese gaming: A new dynasty in the making? By Andrew Leonard Mon, 06 Oct 2008 03:10:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/tech/htww/2006/01/17/china_gaming/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/tech/htww/2006/01/17/china_gaming/index.html?source=rss Where Chinese gamers go, the world may follow. By David Kushner Mon, 06 Oct 2008 03:10:00 PDT 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 Jason Roeder Mon, 06 Oct 2008 03:10:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2005/02/02/gta_myst/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2005/02/02/gta_myst/index.html?source=rss In the most gorgeously conceived AND ultraviolent video game in history, you can open fire on passing cars with a bazooka while exploring universal archetypes! By Wagner James Au Mon, 06 Oct 2008 03:10:00 PDT 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 Mon, 06 Oct 2008 03:10:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2004/12/06/more_santa_sweatshop/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2004/12/06/more_santa_sweatshop/index.html?source=rss A leaked memo hints that Electronic Arts might change its exploitative ways. But the workers are unimpressed. By Laura Miller Mon, 06 Oct 2008 03:10:00 PDT 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 Jennifer Buckendorff Mon, 06 Oct 2008 03:10:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2004/05/04/velvet_strike/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2004/05/04/velvet_strike/index.html?source=rss Taking protests to the street is old hat. Today's rabble-rousers wave their signs inside video games. By Verne Becker Mon, 06 Oct 2008 03:10:00 PDT http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2004/04/21/minibosses/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2004/04/21/minibosses/index.html?source=rss And now for something completely different: The Minibosses, a band that plays nothing but tunes from old video games. By Wagner James Au Mon, 06 Oct 2008 03:10:00 PDT 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 Mon, 06 Oct 2008 03:10:00 PDT 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 Mon, 06 Oct 2008 03:10:00 PDT 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 Mon, 06 Oct 2008 03:10:00 PDT 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 Mon, 06 Oct 2008 03:10:00 PDT 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.