Reading Time: 3 minutes Bathrooms: a simple bastion of safety in our lives. That one small trip at home, is a small reminder of your safety and the conveniences of a modern life. That same trip in public, for some, becomes an epic test of one’s strength and determination. The bathrooms at UVU are certainly clean. In fact, […]
Reading Time: 5 minutes A transfer student’s analysis of our tuition woes Fellow students, lend me your ears, and about twenty bucks. I just paid tuition, and I’m hurting for some cash. It seems like most of us are these days, what with tuition skyrocketing. It just seems like this university is squeezing us for all we’re worth […]
Reading Time: 4 minutes Ladies and Gentlemen, class is in session; welcome to Netiquette 101. We’re here to talk about something extremely important that really shouldn’t need to be discussed, but the vast screaming masses make it so. We’re here to learn how to be polite on the Internet. When the Internet was started by the Advanced Research Projects […]
Reading Time: 4 minutes In gaming’s infancy, most of the premises were adapted from movies. Game developers were using films as hypertext as early as the dismal E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial, crafted for the Atari 2600 in 1982. That software may have ended up in a landfill in New Mexico. But nowadays games have grown up, and have even begun […]
Reading Time: 3 minutes The sun sets as two men, nothing more than outlines, sit high on their horses, riding off towards the horizon. Their day on the untamed plains has left them weary, almost broken men. They look for a place to camp, some bastion of moderate peace in this savage land. They find no such place, and […]
Reading Time: 3 minutes There were two girls at the party – if you could call it a party. Video game junkies, myself included, began filing into a Gamestop in Sandy at about 9:30 in the post-meridian. We began milling about the store, waiting for midnight release of Dead Space 2, a third-person shooter with a horror twist. I […]
Reading Time: < 1 minute The Covey Center in downtown Provo is hosting a gallery of works by artist J. Kirk Richards. A Utah native, Richards studied art at BYU and was influenced by “the great Italian masters” Da Vinci, Michelangelo and Rafael during his two-year LDS mission in Rome. Richard’s work has been featured in collections across the nation, […]
Reading Time: 2 minutes Are video games the training ground for real-life carnage? As you all may know, a very tragic event occurred in Tucson recently, resulting in the near-death of Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords at the hands of Jared Loughner. After the event, people began looking for answers, and The Arizona Republic looked into Loughner’s background. During interviews with […]
Reading Time: 2 minutes Every holiday, people head home to their families for some time together. It’s a tradition, or maybe it’s something buried deep within us, that need for people close around these highly celebrated times. Or maybe it’s that we’re all gluttons for punishment. Having a family celebration is not easy for my family; we’re scattered all […]
Reading Time: 2 minutes As soon as Black Ops loads up on your console, it’s easy to see that this is going to be something a little different. Even the menu screen is unusual, with the main character strapped to a torture chair and staring at a screen where you pick your options. The campaign is a little short, […]