I think the market for games on disc will shrink by at least 80% in the next decade. So GameStop's medium to long-term future is very much in doubt.

The entire purpose of Gamestop is to interpose itself between publishers and players, extracting money from both parties. Such a middleman is unnecessary now that publishers and gamers can transact with each other over the Internet, either directly or through a digital intermediary like Steam, XBL or PSN that can…

Gamestop's entire business is poised to be killed by the Internet. As soon as publishers start selling downloads for just a little bit cheaper than packaged games, retail is dead forever.

With Gen VI breeding mechanics, once you have a 5IV breeding pair with your egg moves, you can produce 5IV offspring at a rate of 1 in 6 eggs hatched. Breeding a bunch of one kind of perfect Pokemon and then trading for other perfect stuff online is much more efficient than breeding everything from scratch and…

It doesn't look like they did at all. It looks like they admit that their survey respondents were much richer than the median parent and three times as likely to have a college degree as the general population, whose data was used for comparison, and that their attempts to correct the data for socioeconomic status…

This is a survey that purports to measure one thing, and actually ends up measuring something else. Specifically, what this survey has found is that poor or uneducated people are more likely to have less successful children, because, without controlling for wealth or education, a parent's self-identification as…

It doesn't matter if the character is based on her.

No. Even if it is about her, they have a right to talk about her and make fun of her.

Copyright protects a work, like a game, a book, a movie or a song. "Lindsay Lohan" is not a work that can be protected by a copyright. Right of publicity is a privacy right, protecting individuals from having their image, name or voice used without their consent for commercial purposes.

Parody and fair use are affirmative defenses to appropriation of copyright violations. She is not suing for intellectual properrty violations, because a person's image or persona isn't intellectual property.

If your rights are violated by a police officer, you have several remedies available: The first is that his conduct may taint the evidence of any crime you may have committed, rendering it inadmissible in court. The second is that you may be able to sue for civil damages.

I can appreciate that, for a well-educated, successful black person, being put in a situation where one must be deferential to a cop feels like a greater indignity than an identical confrontation might feel to a white person; like one's accomplishments or position in society is being minimized or dismissed. But white…

Report from the local press, without Gawker's editorial spin: http://www.bellinghamherald.com/2014/06/19/370…

Either this guy has spent six hours a day gathering herbs on the Wandering Isle every single day since Mists of Pandaria was released, or else he is using a bot to do this.

GTA V had a story about three playable characters, and all of them were men. And there was no controversy. Why is this such a hot subject now?

How is it a day or two of work? The main character is a man. The story of the game is the story of this character.

It's weird that the most memorable and iconic game scores are from the 8 bit era, and overwhelmingly from Japanese games. Maybe it's the fact that we replayed those games so much and the fact that the songs repeated a lot, but it seems like the scores of new games don't really make the same impact. Like, the music in…

The problem activists have with law enforcement is that police and prosecutors are more concerned with verifying facts than with validating feelings. The gist of this article is that law enforcement can't stop rape because cops and prosecutors have to be able to prove the rape happened to do anything about it.

I crafted him for my Warrior control deck. He's the last thing an aggro deck wants to see.

Your hero power changes. You get to summon a 6/6 infernal every turn for 2 mana.