The Banana Peel Project

After my recent post on the recent decisions by the APA and AMA that video games are not addictive, a reader asked me to elaborate. I clarified that yes, video games can be addictive but, like television watching or book reading or car collecting or marijuana smoking or computer using, they will not cause […]

Well, it looks like both the American Medical Association (pdf) and the American Psychological Association (doc)  have concluded that video games are not addictive.  Surprise.
Next thing I know somebody’s going to tell me that cell phones don’t cause cancer.  Oh, wait.

Last week I jumped on the interactive storytelling bandwagon, complaining that Bungie Studios’ upcoming release of Halo 3 was just going to be more of the same droll one-dimensional writing that we’ve come to expect from game developers. Now, after spending some time digesting Chris Kohler’s review of the Halo 3 beta, I’m convinced […]