Joseph Bernstein

NBA Live 2013 goes on lockout, will return next year

EA’s long-running basketball series has conceded the ring to NBA 2K13 for the season.  Some tips to get back in shape: 1. Less time at Score’s. 2. Train with 2K13. Did you see how KD got in the gym with Bronbron this summer? The Lanklien knows to beat the best, you have to act like his homeboy durin

Louis CK and the cult of the laptop loner

The LA Review of Books has a trenchant piece today from the novelist Adam Wilson about the way Louie appeals to the new generation of young men and women, swaddled in their beds, watching TV on laptops and tablets.  It is a show that, more than any other, both caters to this new kind of audience — t

Inside QuakeCon, America’s largest LAN party

SB Nation gives us several thousand more words than we thought we needed on the tournament and PC gaming love-in in Dallas: The bring-your-own-computer room was dark and cold. The open room spanned more than 25,000 square feet, with about 2,800 people divided among dozens of rows of computers. Some

MUST READ: A history of Limbo

Over at Edge, a terrific look inside the development of 2010’s sad, funny, unforgettable indie smash, Limbo. The big quote, from creator Arnt Jensen: “I really enjoy getting rid of everything to see what works,” he says. “It should be working when it’s very naked and there’s nothing – no music or an