If you consider yourself a gamer, you’d have to have been hiding under a rock not to be aware of the “Diablo 3″ beta launch this weekend. Either that or you’ve lost touch with desktop gaming, which is just as shameful.

Ryan Biggs: No other game has won me over me faster than PlayStation game “Journey.”

Edward and Bella wouldn’t survive for a day as Hunger Games tributes. That’s right, I said it. And dare I say that The Hunger Games is a better series, both written and filmed, than Twilight? I may have haters because of it, but it’s the truth.
I was fortunate enough to watch The Hunger Games before midnight. Yes, thankfully, I avoided the thronging crowds and the never-ending line full of fanatics. I must say, the little girls wielding bows and arrows made me a bit nervous as I passed them by …

This is a fully enclosed electric vehicle (with seating for two, I might add) on two wheels balanced by gyroscopes. Sound complex? That’s because it is.

Handheld video game consoles have really made a name for themselves in the past few years. In fact, Nintendo’s DS and Game Boy Advance sales combined with Sony’s PSP sales have totaled over 303 million worldwide. Compare that to 220 million combined sales for the Xbox 360, Nintendo Wii, and PlayStation 3, and you’ll see that handhelds are a huge part of the video game scene.
But that’s not all. In the United States, we currently have more active cell phones than people. Yes, that’s right, more cell phones than citizens. …

WARNING: This post contains spoilers for those not caught up with “The Walking Dead.”

Ryan Biggs: Recently, I was invited to attend a show and tell of extreme magnitude at the Arizona Popular Culture Experience in the Desert Ridge Marketplace. Within this collection is a new exhibit: The History of Video Game Consoles.

Sounds like Europa, one of Jupiter’s moons that is roughly the size of our own, has loads of water on it. In fact, one ocean is estimated to be up to 100 miles deep! Of course, being as far from the Sun as it is, Europa is a frosty hunk of ice. At least on the surface. Down below, however, there is liquid water, and where there is water, there could also be life forms.
Turns out that Europa is also extremely acidic, and acidic conditions don’t provide the best conditions …

So this has to be among the coolest videos I’ve seen on YouTube. Like many from my generation, I grew up loving LEGO blocks. I spent hours creating and playing. I never once thought about the possibility of stop-motion video awesomeness.
This video is part advertisement for the Academy of Interactive Arts and Sciences, which is an outlet for budding video game (and other forms of electronic art) designers and entrepreneurs.

Ryan Biggs is a regular contributor to Nerdvana, the East Valley Tribune’s science and technology website. Nerdvana focuses on the East …

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