EA Sports’ latest simulation has crowned the Ohio State Buckeyes champions of college football. Ohio State beat Alabama 36-24 ending the postseason as the number one team in the country. Before you roll your eyes, know that EA’s videogames are on a roll equal to that of any sportscaster or professional handicapper in the biz.

After getting shut down, resurrected by new owners, moved to a new venue and taking place two month earlier than normal, the Mid-Ohio-Con (aka MOC) was this past weekend (October 4-5, 2008) at the Columbus Convention Center in Columbus, OH (USA). The convention is typically a showcase for Ohio area comic book artists and stores with a smattering of additional celebrity guests and other goodies.

There were two videogame booths a the MOC, one for Ninja Gaiden and the other was promoting Soul Calibur IV. There were a few celebrities, several big-name comic artists, the Batmobile and costumes aplenty…

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…

Gambling in Ohio has been an election season issue for most, if not all, the dozen or so years I’ve been in the state. Since it has yet to pass in any form, gambling is illegal, meaning any device featuring a game of chance that pays out is breaking the law (except, of course, the more »