Sep 28, 2012 | Forbes
In 2010, writer Dan Savage and his partner Terry Miller created a YouTube video that promised LGBTQ youth that life will improve when they leave high school, a video that inspired the It Gets Better Project. The LGBTQ community is not the only group that requires a...
Sep 27, 2012 | Forbes
Photo by Nikita Bogolyubov It seems like only yesterday that Cyd Sherman, a.k.a. Codex, was fired by her therapist for not setting limits on the time she spent in her MMO. Now look at her. She’s as charmingly neurotic as ever, only this time she has a job for the very...
Sep 27, 2012 | Forbes
One of the reasons I love the Assassin’s Creed games is because it lets me sneak up on history and stab it in the back. It looks like ACIII, set in the time of the American Revolution, looks like it follows the AC equation of history + weaponry = awesome. This ACIII...
Sep 25, 2012 | Forbes
When Hugh Jackman appeared in the 2001 movie X-Men, there was no doubt about it: Despite his towering 6’2 frame, he embodied the character of Wolverine. He reprised the role of the gruff mutant with a heart of gold and bones of adamantium again in X2, X-Men Origins:...
Sep 25, 2012 | Forbes
World of Warcraft (WoW) is the standard by which other MMOs are judged. But as it happens, I only just started playing MMOs, and I chose Guild Wars 2 (GW2) as my entrée. But WoW’s latest expansion, The Mists of Pandaria (Pandaria), was released today. With the help of...
Sep 24, 2012 | Forbes
Doctor Who isn’t just a science fiction show, it’s a British science fiction show, which means a few of the references made in the long-running BBC show may go over the heads of those of us across the pond. With the help of my British husband, we’re going to explain...
