Herman Cain’s Tax Plan Is Shared With ‘SimCity’

Staff / Truthdig Oct 14, 2011 With presidential hopeful Herman Cain's ascension to the top of the GOP field, everyone is talking about his 9-9-9 tax plan -- or should we say "SimCity's" 9-9-9 tax plan? (more) Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Computer Gamers Decipher Structure of AIDS Enzyme

Staff / Truthdig Sep 20, 2011 To the astonishment of scientists, online gamers deciphered the 3-D structure of an enzyme of an AIDS-like virus in just three weeks, a feat that had evaded researchers for 10 years. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Video Game Companies Cash In on Tax Tokens

Staff / Truthdig Sep 11, 2011 American video game developers are benefiting from an odd combination of tax breaks many analysts say are intended to encourage industries that serve the public good by providing broadly valuable social services. (more) Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

Monkey Business

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Yes to Violence, No to Sex

Robert Scheer / Truthdig Jun 29, 2011 Scalia’s opinion is actually quite thrilling in enunciating an extremely broad definition of the free speech rights of minors. But it is simply bizarre in dismissing the claimed harmful effects of violent depictions while still insisting on the strictest puritanical view of the dangers of sexual imagery. This American life of ours has long been pro-violence and anti-sex, unless the two can be merged so that violence is the dominant theme. Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )

Teen Girls Who Play Video Games With Parents Are Less Depressed

Staff / Truthdig Feb 3, 2011 According to a new study, girls 11-16 years old who play video games with their parents are less depressed and, in the words of this Bloomberg report, "generally better behaved" than those who don't. Apparently "Rock Band" creates Stepford children. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Closing Al-Jazeera in Cairo

Staff / Truthdig Jan 31, 2011 Al-Jazeera's Cairo bureau is shut down during Egypt protests, Jesse Ventura sues the TSA, and the productive use of video games in the U.S. military. These discoveries and more after the jump. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

The Economics of Video Games

Staff / Truthdig Jan 8, 2011 How video games are changing the economy, the story behind the mythological toppling of the Saddam Hussein statue in Baghdad, and the merits of being grossed out. These discoveries and more after the jump. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

No Time for Tax Talk When There’s iPad Scrabble

Ruth Marcus / Truthdig Dec 10, 2010 I could write more about the tax deal, but you're probably tired of hearing about it, and, to be honest, I've been too busy playing iPad Scrabble. Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )

Top Court Mulls Video Game Violence

Staff / Truthdig Nov 3, 2010 The first day of deliberation in the Supreme Court about that perennial legal favorite, violence in video games, brought debate Tuesday about the potential damage done by minors' exposure to sex versus violence and a Founding Fathers joke from Justice Samuel Alito. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

‘Fable III’ Gives Gamers Gay-for-Play Options

Staff / Truthdig Oct 27, 2010 Although gay marriage and adoption by same-sex couples are still not fully sanctioned in the real world, things are different in at least one corner of the virtual realm Take "Fable III," for example, which gives gamers free rein (continued). Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

Video Games Are Good for Your Brain

Peter Z. Scheer / Truthdig Sep 16, 2010 Don't listen to Hillary Clinton. Video games are good for you. They make you and your children sharper, and kids should be able to play them without permission.Video games make you and your children sharper, and kids should be able to play them without permission. Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )