For decades, geek culture has told us the same story in a thousand different ways: power comes with responsibility. From ...

Almost five years ago, comedian Patton Oswalt wrote an article for Wired called “Wake Up, Geek Culture, Time to Die.” It was equal parts eulogy for the romanticized nerd he once was, and a lament for ...

Plenty has been said about the mainstreaming of geek culture – I reference it all the time, myself – and it’s easy to see why. Superhero movies everywhere. Grown men and women in business-casual ...

Zeynep Tufekci is an assistant professor of sociology at the School of Information at University of North Carolina, and a faculty associate at Harvard Berkman Center for Internet and Society. She is ...

Game director Hiroshi Yoshimura and producer Keita Iizuka discuss how 'Code Vein II' seeks to bring pathos appeal through ...

If you had called me those names 15 years ago, I probably would have been a little offended, but not so anymore. Nowadays, mainstream culture has welcomed and even celebrated “the geek.” Terms like ...

Like any subculture, geek culture has its own terminology. A lot of it is self-explanatory, but some of it requires some foreknowledge or insight to really understand. Naturally, most geeks reading ...

There was a time when liking video games was seen as some sort of abnormality. Once, knowing one’s way around a console controller was considered an affliction worthy of being attacked with virgin ...

Is the geek-culture bubble bursting? For years, "geek culture" has been on the rise. What was once the safe haven of the outsider became more and more popular until geek culture effectively became ...

Dweebs. Nerds. Geeks. No matter what you called "the people who knew too much about weird things" back in the day, well, their reputation is changing. These days, the fodder weirdos and the nerds ...

Whispering softly, a sultry female voice coos, “Living Geek, elegant. Living Geek, striking,” as the camera fades from Superman action figures to video game controllers to T-shirts with slogans such ...