Hi all, if you haven't heard, Frank Miller hates the Occupy movement. Miller, ever the bitter old out-of-touch entertainer, seems to particularly hate the Occupy protesters, mostly students and young adults, whom he refers to as "pond scum"...

For the record I have no idea how to properly use colons, or any grammatical artifice for that matter (I can barely write my name in cursive too! Just, in case, ya know, you wanted to know...nvm). So when I got an e-mail from a potential em...

So you're a PC gamer; a venerated, rare breed of individual who boldly goes where no one else goes because it is often too expensive, time-consuming and infuriating, what with hobbled ports of console games, Jim's dreaded "goshdurn DRM" and...

Hey yall, within the last several months since I built my gaming pc, I've really fallen deep, DEEP into Fallout: New Vegas, mostly because of the joy I get from finding, tinkering, and playing with some killer mods that really make the game...

The internet is full of wannabe douche-bags, real douche-bags, and cute teddy bears. Literally, that is all. So, since I don't like douche bags and am a supermegabig fan of cute teddy bear-like creatures/internet users, I propose that you g...

One thing that I've felt has been lacking on Dtoid has been the spotty, hard-to-find news about MMOs in general and about these games in specific. Though the news, as almost always has been the case on Dtoid, has been great, I feel like the...

Whattup peeps, it's me Will again, I haven't posted in a redonkulously long time, but I've been swamped with shiz and life (whoa is me!) soooo....here it goes:) So I finally graduated college and ended up doing really well on senior thesis...

Hi yall, so I've been diligently (cough*cough*) writing my thesis and it's now due in a week. If anyone remembers, it's the one about virtual worlds and all that jazz and fun stuff. Sooo, long story short...advisor said she was "impressed"....

On the internet, in a game, in a virtual world, the driver (player, user, individual, ego, what ever you want to call it) is rendered incarnate in the pixels and code of a virtual body. People, with our complexities, our cultural identities...

Hi all again, maybe some of you are getting annoyed with my seemingly incessant anthropological forays into the psyche of game worlds/cultures for my undegrad thesis, but, I assure you, WE MUST MARCH ONWARD TO VICTORY! Haha, I just wanted ...

Hi all, first of all, to those of you who have been wonderfully freaking awesome and have trudged through my steady progression of ADD-addled/half-baked thesis ideas, I thank you so much. You've given me great constructive criticism of what...

Hi! This is finally a coherent, working part I of my undergrad thesis on virtual worlds. Feel free to comment, troll, love, criticize and/or fap to this, it's awesome to get feedback:) (It's a working draft, but feel free to rip it apart :P...

Still writing this thesis and I'm running into a roadblock of information. Does anyone know what the first gaming communities that existed online were? When was the first MMO released, for example, or when was the first gaming blog started?...

This is part 1 of my series of blogs for my thesis on videogaming cyber cultures. Please comment, discuss, troll, I welcome it all! “Besides, interesting things happen along border-transitions-not in the middle where everything is the sam...

Okay, let's be honest with each other right out of the gate, Rebecca Black's heavily bashed single, "Friday", may be the best song ever made, or at least the most viscerally metaphoric capturing of a generation I have ever seen. The song,...

Hi, I’m new here but this isn’t my first post on the site. I’m not a very experienced “blogger” per se, but I’ve written countless words on forums, pages, myspaces and walls over the years. I’m not really sure how I got here, but I know tha...

When I was a little kid, my parents gave me a little cardboard sleeve that had three tiny, indelibly cute books in it, with the set being called "Voyage to the Bunny Planet". Maybe some of you remember it. Well, as a kid, when I was going t...

I had typed up a huge diatribe, but forgot to save it and my I was logged out, but I endure and endeavor to try again, this time I'm going to be more straight to the point and less ragey. Oblivion had some of the worst character models of...

I've been playing videogames since I was 6 and have grown up, as millions of my peers have, in a world of virtual interconnectivity ushered in by the advent of the internet, social networking and online gaming. Now, I'm a senior majoring in...

That big, scary word tossed around in cloistered halls of "higher-learning", sociology readers and the occasional discussion in MMO's. I've been trying to come up with reasons why agency is present online and in gaming for my senior thesis...