Growing up, my older brother was ever the math geek; he’s now a math teacher at a State University-funded high school that specializes in math and science. He taught me the beauty of the quadratic equation and the mystery of the imaginary number when I was a wee lad, giving me an academic advantage over my peers. So when Christmas came, and my mother bought...

  Complaining about free stuff is almost un-American, but neglecting an opportunity to complain about something is just as bad, so I’m at a crossroads. I’ve developed a tricky relationship with free and subscription-based entertainment. Between Netflix, Hulu and Spotify (the music service that allows members to listen to nearly all of recorded...

I said last week that I was totally bummed because I wouldn’t be able to re-download a whole mess of iPhone applications that I lost during an unavoidable system-restore. Well, I’ve never been happier to regret an error, because when I tried to buy the sublime ROLANDO 2 (Ngmoco, $5) again this morning, my phone asked me if I’d like to download it...

The PSP and the PlayStation Network have come a terribly long way in the last year, and if their progress keeps pace, the PSP might supplant the DS as my favorite portable. I submit the following as evidence by way of anecdote: Calamity befell me last week. And by “calamity,” I mean a minor annoyance that almost ruined my Thanksgiving Eve. Giant Bomb...

Question: What’s the best way to tell that a game has really hooked you? Answer: When, every time you sit down to write about the game, you instead decide to go play it some more. (okay, maybe that only happens to people who review games on a regular basis…) Such has been my experience with DROPLITZ. I had only heard about this new puzzle game because it...