Joseph Bernstein

This hideous Darpa robot can sneak up on you

Everyone loves freaking out at a good-old Boston Dynamics/Darpa robot video, and here is the latest disquieting news: no longer will your cybernetic doom be augured by the deafening metallic squeaks and squooks of robot joints. Robot death is now 10 times quieter!

Kinect being used to efficiently surveil people without their knowledge

We all know we live in a future-shock security state with dwindling privacy and an increasingly tenuous grasp of our rights, but at least we have sweet, innocent videogames. Videogames which would never be used to spy on us, right? WRONG! A security surveillance firm is using Microsoft’s Kinect to a

The president is campaigning inside Madden 2013

We think of our president as a basketball guy, but he’ll be asking for your vote in Madden this fall. Barack may be going for another term as president, but someone should let the guy know that DC, for the time being at least, is a monarchy. All hail Robert the Third!

Le’Shanah Tovah to the Jews of gaming!

Welcome to the year 5773! We celebrate with apples, honey, this list of the greatest Jewish videogame characters ever, and a shoutout, Adam Sandler-style, to three very special Jews who have made enormous contributions to our gaming lives. 1. Ralph Baer. The “Father of Videogames” escaped Nazi Germa