Here's an exclusive behind-the-scenes look at 'Noobz', an upcoming road movie about gamers that doesn't involve Fred Savage. To our knowledge.

For the longest time if any guy asked me where's the one place he could go and almost certainly get laid my answer was just about any bar in New York City's Murray Hill neighborhood on a Friday or a Saturday night.

Gamers now have the ultimate comeback for anyone who ever claims that their passion is leads to increased violence, mental retardation, humanity's downfall and whatnot: A group of gamers spent three weeks playing Foldit, an online protein-folding game, and in the course of doing so helped scientists develop the structure of an enzyme that could be used to help fight HIV and AIDS.

Here's how obscure Kennedy's disastrous turn as an emcee at a press conference for Activision five years ago actually was: this was literally the first I've heard of it.

Earlier this summer I managed to piss off a lot of people with my opinion on Roger Ebert's opinion, and I thought it was worth explaining in a bit more detail.

I still remember the Christmas morning that I got my first Gameboy, because it may have been the coolest present I ever got as a kid, aside from the GI Joe aircraft carrier.