Getting my spook on: an epic fail

Normally I love the Halloween season. Yes, season. I have at least three large storage containers stuffed with rubber bats, glow in the dark skeletons and other creepy 3-dimensional objects that only see the light of day for a few weeks each year.
I could blame my apathy this year on pumpkin spice deficiency since [...]

Parental responsibility and the power of media

The other night at the video store I overheard a conversation between a mother and her son. The boy was somewhere between 4-6 years old.
Boy: Mommy, look there’s Scream! Can we get it?
Mother: No, I don’t think so, we watched it 6 times last week. Let’s find something else.
A few minutes later, she approached the [...]

An overdue welcome

It’s been many moons since Chris O’Neal joined our stable of freelancers with his gaming column “The Gamer’s Notebook.”
Last week, Chris attended the E3 convention in Los Angeles and gave VCReporter readers lots of tasty video game previews to nibble on as gaming advances to levels unimagined only a few years ago.
Take a few minutes [...]

4 days

Gamers rejoice! It’s only 4 more days until Blizzard releases WofLK making level 80 the new level 70 on World of Warcraft. Expansions have a way of leveling the playing field as we all become noobs at least for a little while. If you play, then you know that Blizzard has slowly been incorporating the [...]