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...

When I was fourteen, my friend Darin called me up and said, "Hey, a bunch of guys are coming over to play games. Do you want to come?"

"Games?" I...

According to a story in Variety, George Lucas, Executive Producer of Howard the Duck and Willow,...

Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett's Good Omens is required reading for geeks who know where their towel is, and according to Gaiman, it's closer and...

Writing in Wired News, Leander Kahney says that rumors of Microsoft's Zune mp3...

On Tour is a nifty little OS X widget that scans your iTunes library, and lets you...

The scary VML exploit I reported last week has been patched...