SKIRMISHER

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! 

Diablo III. Need we say more?

Straight from the mouth of id Software:
Production has begun on DOOM 4™, the next journey into the legendary DOOM universe. We are expanding our internal team and are currently hiring to work on this highly anticipated title.
“DOOM is part of the id Software DNA and demands the greatest talent and brightest minds in the industry [...]

“It would be natural for the platform. … That’s the Wii’s strength. If you wanted to create a stripper poll game, this would be the system you’d target.”
– Rob Enderle, a Silicon Valley analyst and strip enthusiast and who has nothing to do with this news at all except to serve as a talking head, [...]

Are you hardcore enough to play Pong and Breakout simultaneously?
{Mad: What would it be for today: another fucked up flash game, or a cool, hilarious one?}

It’s 1981. This is state of the art. Oh, those were the days.
Back-travel begins here.

Super Pii Pii Brothers, the fancy Nintendo Wii game. Your grandmother will absolutely love it.
The play mechanics are simple. Prepare yourself by strapping on the included belt harness and jacking in your Wiimote. A series of toilets are presented on screen and the challenge is to tilt your body to control a never-ending stream of [...]