Author: Tim Taylor

Last Wednesday at 3 p.m., in the middle of class, I pulled out my laptop, opened a streaming video, and incurred the wrath of my professor and fellow classmates. To me, my actions were a professional duty, but nobody else seemed to care. Ironically, by 6 p.m., I didn’t care

Just over a week ago, I woke up at the ungodly hour of 4:45 a.m., rousted a buddy from his slumber, piled us both into an automobile, and drove to Santa Monica. Santa Monica, you see, is home to the Westfield Century City outdoor mall. Within the Century City outdoor

For a long time now, I’ve wanted to conduct a study on primary and middle school students’ gaming preferences. “Do you play games on a Nintendo 3DS or an iPhone, and would you prefer to play them on a 3DS or an iPhone?” would essentially be my question, and there’s

Usually, I try to keep my personal life separate from this column so as not to bore you dear readers with my sad life story. This week, however, you need to know a little of my personal history in order to properly contextualize the opinion I will be offering a

I’m biased. I know this for an absolute fact. My longtime readers know this beyond a shadow of a doubt. Anyone with a minimal understanding of video games today could look at me and see my bias clean as day, and I’ve never made a particular point of hiding or

Movies about video games are just weird. Really, think about it—the concept of taking a medium whose chief selling point is its interactivity, stripping it of said interactivity and selling it to a mass market for profit is just a strange, backward idea. Perhaps that’s why most attempts to make

Thanksgiving is fast approaching, and with it, Black Friday. Black Friday is by far one of the best times to step out onto the department store floor and bust that fresh move that retailers call the “credit card swipe.” Video games and electronics are released in droves around this time

Let’s talk about tablets. After all, since our technological overlords have decided that our destiny lies with the tablet, it’s pretty darn hard not to talk about them. You know the funny thing? The tablet, as a concept, isn’t really that bad of an idea. I’m actually all for it.

A couple of days ago, I read something that made me happy. Happy in a delightfully sarcastic way. A real schadenfreude moment. Something that made me laugh out loud as I punched the sky and proclaimed, “Serves them right!”  “What,” you might ask, “caused such an outbreak of temporary hysteria?”