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Geek Culture

Video games DO NOT cause violence.

Can we stop with the conjecture and speculation please! There seem to be as many theories about gaming impact on specific incidents and tenuous causal links as there are people that believe there is an intuitive link. The latest is discussed in Cognitive Daily which looks at a study that measures the difference in heart-rate and galvanic skin response when

Japanese tech ads

Other countries culture and humour can be hard to understand. Any of you that have been to Japan or seen any Japanese TV will know that that it can deliver equal measures of genius, bizarre and funny. Network World has put together 10 Japanese ads mostly advertising tech items that each have their own set of weird or funny. The

We Humbly Interupt for this Introduction…

I wanted to take a moment to introduce myself before I posted my first entry to Geek News Central’s blog. I’m a long-time listener and fan of the Geek News Central podcasts, and a sometime caller and commenter, and branching out into writing a few tech blog entries seemed to be a smart step to take.

The life of Gary Gygax

I am sure that there are a large proportion of GNC readers who have played a session or two of D&D. Gary Gygax was a legend in the roleplaying world, played a large part in the creation and growth of Dungeons and Dragons and had a huge influence on the greater role-play scene through GenCon, the biggest role-playing convention out