Category Archives: Games

Conan O’Brien on a Kinder, Gentler “Grand Theft Auto”

“In the past, Grand Theft Auto has been severely criticized for being too violent,” says Conan O’Brien. “Well, the new version — I got it yesterday and was playing with it — it’s been toned down a lot. I’m not sure it’s better…”

[This was also posted to Global Nerdy.]

Grand Theft Auto IV: Midnight Lineup and First Impressions

Here’s a photo of the line outside my local EB Games (the Runnymede/St. Clair location in Toronto) for Grand Theft Auto IV, taken last night at midnight:

The 30-car parking lot behind the store was full of cars that I could’ve sworn were lifted right from the previous game in the series, Grand Theft Auto: San [...]

Sign of the Times

I took the photo below in High Park station this morning:

This photo is a sign of two things:

The Toronto Transit Commission is back in action (and running smoothly from most accounts).
Grand Theft Auto IV gets released at midnight! All branches of Future Shop (except in Quebec and Sudbury) and EB Games as well as the [...]

“Grand Theft Childhood” Authors: Kids Who DON’T Play Videogames are at Risk

Grand Theft Childhood is a new book written by Dr. Lawrence Kutner and Dr. Cheryl Olson, a husband-and-wife team who co-founded the Harvard Medical School Center for Mental Health and Media. In the video above, Drs. Kutner and Olson talk with X-Play’s Adam Sessler about some of the findings from the study documented in their [...]

How Many Cannibals Could Your Body Feed?

According to the site, it’s “the most important questions you’ll ever ask yourself”: How many cannibals could my body feed? Answer a few questions and you’ll be given an estimate of the number of cannibals that your body would feed. Here’s my result:

Click the badge above to take the test yourself!
[Found thanks to Kari]

Guitar vs. “Guitar Hero”

[Cross posted to Global Nerdy]
Click to see the comic on its original page.
Trust me, kids: learn to play a musical instrument reasonably well before college.
As for accordion playing, the “coolness graph” looks like this: