SKIRMISHER

In August, 2005, as Microsoft was gearing up production, an engineer raised a hand and said, “Stop. You have to shut down the line.” This wasn’t just a brief moment. The engineer spoke up repeatedly.
That engineer, who asked not to be identified, had deep experience in manufacturing. When production results were really off kilter, stopping [...]

Dude has stopped shaving and letting it flourish till Fable 2 comes out sometime [fingers crossed] this October. Who’s wishing the game actually ships 10 years from now?

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The cinematic trailer of World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King.

The Xbox 360 “kite” — just one of the wonderful ways you can turn a Red Ring of Death tragedy into some form of “Fuck you!” to the game console’s lovable maker.

Pac-man served through the white-knuckled fun of actual words!
And just for fun, try writing “shove this tree stump up your ass, colorful ghosts!” and see what happens.

Apparently, because manufacturing the Playstation 2 [and most probably Xbox 360 and other newer game consoles] and other personal electronics requires a rare metal called tantalum, and because tantalum is derived from coltan ore — most of which comes from Congo — mining for coltan has helped fuel a decade-long war and bloody exploitation in [...]

A University of California scientist says our love of large television sets could be destroying our environment.  Michael Prather claims nitrogen trifluoride (NF3) gas used in the production of plasma and LCD televisions could be more than 17000 times as powerful as carbon dioxide in heating the atmosphere.  The gas is not covered by the [...]

Well, EA had it coming with its latest video game, Spore: where there’s free character creation, there’ll be characters with huge schlongs.
Thanks, Michael Hayes!