I don't remember the first SF book I read, but I can clearly recall the first SF book I read that made a serious impression on me: Ringworld. As...

12:05 PM on Wednesday is typically the highlight of my week, because it represents the longest amount of time between the publishing of the Geek in Review...

I was born in 1972, and came of age in the 1980s, which means that I am of the video game generation. Though my family started with the Odyssey2 before...

When I was younger and had a level of disposable income that was inversely proportionate to my level of serious responsibility, I was a major comic book...

The friendly local game, comic or music shop is an endangered species. Here's why we should work hard to save them.

I walked up to the register...

“Technology makes it possible for people to gain control over everything, except over technology”
-John Tudor

In the early 90s, I walked...

I am in Las Vegas right now for the 2007 Consumer Electronics Show, taping a couple of shows for InDigital, and...

Last night, my wife and I drove past a store that repaired vacuums, sewing machines, and typewriters.

"Typewriters?" I said. "Does anyone still use a...

When my stepkids were younger, their hyper-competitive father coached them on baseball and soccer teams. I was shoved right out of the picture, and I never...

Sci-Fi geeks are rather critical of the things we profess to love so much, and we will set our phasers from "mock" to "kill" pretty quickly if a director...

2005's Guitar Hero was a sleeper hit for the PS2, allowing geeks everywhere to pick up a guitar and enjoy the beautiful delusion that they could...

There are just seventeen shopping days left until Christmas, and the holidays are now officially up in our shit like a drunken co-worker at the office Christmas...

In last year's Destroy All Humans! Pandemic Studios put players into a satirical and sardonic look at 1950s America during the height of the Cold...

Of all the things I do that make me a geek, nothing brings me as much joy, or has eaten up as much of my not-as-disposable-as-it-once-was income as gaming.

Last weekend, Cinemax ran a constantly-repeating marathon of the entire Star Wars series, beginning with Phantom Menace and ending with Return...

December, 1983:

I sat on the floor in my Aunt Val's house, and opened up her Christmas present to me. It was a red box with a really cool looking...

Long before we wrote our blogs, long before we argued about the finer points of the Prime Directive on UseNet, even before we nervously waited for ASCII...

Neil Gaiman's Sandman was originally released in 1989 to massive critical and commercial success. It is one of the graphic novels that helped DC...

In recent years, geeks have become accepted (assimilated?) into the mainstream. It's hard to pin down one specific reason, but as a life-long geek, I can...

Those of you who can't wait until next month to play Guitar Hero 2 can get a taste of the game's new songs and co-op mode by picking up the current issue...