Articles by Jake Beckman

Pokémon Go – iPhone, Android Niantic, The Pokémon Company July 6, 2016 | Free (with in-game purchases) It’s every Pokémon fan’s dream for pokémon to become real. With its promising and powerful advertisements before release, many pokéfans have speculated that Pokémon GO would finally take pokémon and put them in the world we live in, […]

Entertainment is a pretty big business and highly observed by the masses because, well, that’s their audience. We mostly talk about music, movies and television: who’s starring in what show? What singles are in the top 10? When it comes to video games, however, not many people or news sources seem to give a d*mn. In reality, the video game […]

It seems like simple logic: someone in solitude interacts with a machine for a lengthy time. There’s no way that this could benefit one’s social behavior and communication. Although it’s easy to assume beliefs like this to be true, there are many elements to gaming that provide the benefit to the doubt. How exactly do […]

Pokémon Sun and Moon – Nintendo 3DS The Pokémon Company Released on November 18, 2016 $39.99 For many Pokémon fans, the announcement of Pokémon Sun and Pokémon Moon was sudden and unexpected. Some, however, might have had mixed feelings about a few features of the games; with a shift from the traditional paradigm of the […]

No, they don’t make people mass murderers – video games are actually turning millennials into navigational and spatial masterminds. It is the industry of today. Almost everybody has played video games, and they influence players in different ways. Does playing violent video games increase one’s chance of becoming violent in real life?  Scholars have been […]

Andrew Boldt has hundreds of CDs and record albums from the 60s, 70s and 80s.

Andrew Boldt loves music, and he has a CD collection to prove it.