Attention all you Chicago Trekkies out there, this October 22-24th 2010, Creation Experience will be holding the 44th annual Star Trek Convention at the Westin O’Hare hotel in Rosemont IL. Like previous years, the Con will hold lots of panels, celebs, venders, and exclusive Star Trek merchandise. There will be panels for all the celebs plus special events like a live auction, several contests, a Leonard Nimoy panel of his latest photo seminar and a “Rat-Pack” concert with ST celebs Max Grodenchick, Vaughn Armstrong, Jeffery Combs, Casey Biggs and Armin Shimerman.

Fry’s Electronics looks to be the place to go for Illinois residents looking for video game bundles on Black Friday. The bad news is that store locations for Fry’s are limited and the sales at one store do not always apply to stores in other parts of the country. The good news is that they more »

University of Illinois researchers recently studied the impact of video game magazine’s depictions of overly muscular male characters on the drive for muscularity among preadolescent boys. According to the News Bureau of the University of Illinois, the study consisted of two rounds of testing conducted one year apart with researchers administered questionnaires to groups of two to five boys, separated by visual barriers who were then asked to report the genres of magazines they read each week. “The boys’ drive for muscularity was gauged using a child-appropriate version of a standard “drive for muscularity” scale. Drive for muscularity was defined as desire for muscle mass.”