“Super Mortal” Dr. Phil Takes on MMO Addiction
by Chad Lakkis on October 20, 2008
Today’s episode of the Dr. Phil show, titled “Virtual Chaos”, addresses video game addiction, and it isn’t pretty. The featured guests spend 80 hours a week on average playing “the game” (which is on more than one occasion revealed to be World of Warcraft), abandoning their jobs, ignoring their wives, and neglecting their children.
One recovering video game addict in the audience described how he would secretly replace the guts of his PC when his wife went to work so that he could play more advanced games without her knowing about the expenses he was racking up. The camera panned to the current addict on stage as the audience member explained his secret upgrade process, and you could literally sense a light bulb going off in his head. Read more…
Geeked-Out: Walking iPhone Robot (sort of)
by Chad Lakkis on October 18, 2008

Do you hate missing a call because your phone is a few feet away and you just don’t feel like getting up to answer it? This man feels your pain.
Silicon Valley software engineer and aspiring inventor, Kazu Terasaki, is attempting to give his iPhone a pair of legs to go with it’s massive collection of apps. The contraption, in it’s current state, is more of a misguided crawl than a walk, but it has promise.
Soon, we’ll all be able to eat Cheesy Poofs and play World of Warcraft without so much as shifting a butt cheek, while our personal robots go to work and cater to our every need. In the mean time, let’s root for Kazu, so we never have to go AFK to answer our iPhone ever again.
Hit the jump to see the walking iPhone robot feet in action. Read more…
Football Star Comments on “Videogames Are Ruining Sport” Debate
by Adam Montgomery on December 2, 2007

Football legend Sir Geoff Hurst offers a positive opinion on gaming, delivering logical and praise worthy comments regarding the “videogames are ruining football” debate that hit last week. Read more…







