Stern Pinball, makers of arcade-quality pinball machines, has announced a series of US pinball tournaments promoting its Iron Man pinball machine.

There are current four locations across the US and the event requires a $5 admission fee. The parties/tourneys all coincide with the movie’s release, May 7, 2010, and Stern promises “4 Grand Prize Winners” (likely one per location). Exact prizes were note indicated.

I recently learned that GameJunkie, perhaps the last independent videogame store in the Cincinnati, OH (USA), area, is closing for good on June 29, 2008.

Damn recession. Damn retail chains. Damn through-the-mail game services. You are all crushing the life out of privately owned, independent videogame shops.

GameJunkie, which opened five years ago, took a refreshingly intimate approach to videogames and…

Sexual predators have turned to game consoles for entrapping gullible children as online gaming services like Xbox Live allow gamers to freely communicate with each other. According to a story on WLWT-TV News 5 in Cincinnati, OH, the FBI has investigated many such cases in Southern Ohio.

Law enforcement agencies have been hunting down predators in cyberspace for many…