Are we predisposed to violence in our game worlds?

But depsite all this, are we predisposed to act violently in games? Ben Croshaw, of Zero Punctuation, has it right when he was talking about the difference between the gamer in real life, and their projected persona in the game, "A sort of high-functioning autistic you wouldn …

Facebook now 3rd most popular video site

Facebook is now the third most popular video source on the Web, after Google and Yahoo. The social network surpassed all other media sites and video services, according to a monthly video study by comScore.

Are desktop PCs headed for extinction?

When I woke up this morning, for one second, I wanted an iMac. The new ones, have smokin' quad-core chips, gigabyte ATI graphics cards, terabyte internal drives and other equally impressive-sounding jargon. But then I remembered they can't . OK, there are some nuts who bring iMacs to coffee shops for the free Wi-Fi, but laptops rule, right?

4chan members attack Gawker website

Hey. So you know when Godzilla and Ghidorah get in a fight, it's best just to get the hell out of the way? I'm not saying who's who here, but puckish Internet presence 4chan and relentless media gossip blog Gawker are reportedly at odds. And today at least, 4chan appears to be winning.

Margaret Gould Stewart: How YouTube thinks about copyright [VIDEO]

Margaret Gould Stewart, YouTube's head of user experience, talks about how the ubiquitous video site works with copyright holders and creators to foster (at the best of times) a creative ecosystem where everybody wins.