Video game violence

With the recent spate of extremely violent acts in the news video games have once again come under fire from misinformed authoritative parties.  They often cite many of the more conclusive studies (a synopsis of which can be found at http://kotaku.com/5976781/25-video-game-violence-studies-summarized ).  Today’s rant focuses on these studies in particular as they are, in my opinion, flawed [...]

Sonic the Hedgehog’s mistakes

Oh dear lord, WHY! Why is Sonic the Hedgehog cursed to live in so many awful games!  The fans have made it quite clear what they want, and it’s so simple to deliver, they want Sonic, running fast through roller-coaster like levels, THAT’S IT.  Sega has decided that this isn’t enough, there has to be [...]

Review scores

Bionic Squirrels, like many review sites has decided that from this day forward it will no longer be using a starred review system, or provide numeric scoring of any kind. It is our belief that the scores get focused on a tad too much, and the actual content of the review is skipped in favor [...]

Casual nerds

This site is for you. Maybe you love Star wars, but don’t know every line of dialogue, you can quote Shakespeare, but only Macbeth because they made you read it in high school. You dabble in all things nerdy, but you can’t compete with the super-nerds that have specialized themselves to just one category of [...]