Sure, you read the reviews that Village Voice Media writers Chris Ward and Gary Hodges publish every week in the screens section of the Voice site. Ok, maybe you do, maybe you don’t. But either way you’ll be happy–or at least vaguely interested– to know that you can now read more gaming exploits […]

Wow, this is shaping up to be the fall of conferences.
In addition to presenting at Arse Elektronika in San Francisco this September, I’ll be putting together a panel on using virtual worlds to teach second languages for the special education edition of State of Play. The event, which will take place this October in […]

-Forget Wii-mote waggling, and start thinking Wii-mote wriggling. MTV Multiplayer reports that Peekaboo Pole Dancing, the company responsible for the Carmen Electra pole dancing kit, are seeking a partnership with Nintendo to work on a licensed pool dancing game for the Wii. While there’s no word yet whether the game will ever come to […]

Only slightly behind the times, I’ve finally gotten around to setting up both a Heroine Sheik group and a business page on Facebook. The group is called “Video game get me hot and bothered (i.e. I heart Heroine Sheik),” and the business page is creatively titled just “Heroine Sheik.” Both are aimed at […]

When it comes to providing you with awesome, cutting-edge sex content, you’ve got to give The Village Voice a hand. They’ve got Dan Savage’s advice column, Tristan Taormino’s sex industry insider column, and of course Click Me, a column by yours truly about sex and technology. Now the Voice site has added another […]

As of the end of April, I finished teaching here in France. My contract is up, and my hooligans will have to find someone new to torment with questions about America, guns, and pancakes. One thing I will say for my less-than-enthusiastic English students: they always perked up at the mention of video […]