On a sunny, windy Saturday, members of WT’s Enactus program gathered at the Astoria Park Apartments in Amarillo, TX. The sprawling complex is home to a large community of refugees from Africa, Asia,...

Last semester the WT Student Senate passed a bill calling for a student referendum on the construction of a new sports stadium for the university. The vote will be held on March 29 and 30, and leading...

Superhero movies have become an interesting beast over the last few years. Marvel/Disney continues with its juggernaut of a cinematic universe, producing films based on practically unknown superhero teams...

  Want to listen to this episode? Click here! This episode was recorded on February 2, 2016 This episode is 57 MB. This episode is 1 hour and 2 minutes long. This episode was produced...

Guess who's back? Not the Backstreet Boys, because we didn't have the budget, but the next best thing. Plus INT returns for the Spring as we have an hour-long Geeking Out where we talk about the stuff...

Want to listen to this episode? Click here! This episode was recorded on November 3, 2015. This episode is 64 MB. This episode is 1 hour and 7 minutes long. This episode was produced by Preston...

This week on PlusINT, the crew is filled with determination from the releases of Fallout 4 and Starcraft II: Legacy of the Void (but mostly Fallout 4), the arcade Dissida Final Fantasy continues to look...

Want to listen to this episode? Click here! This episode was recorded on November 3, 2015. This episode is 64 MB. This episode is 1 hour and 7 minutes long. This episode was produced by Preston...

This week on Plus INT, it's a full house as the crew talk about Blizzard no longer releasing WoW sub numbers, the closure of Kojima Productions Los Angeles, a well-made Metroid short film, and the release...

This week on Plus INT, Gabe finally gets the intro right as the crew covers some of Sony's stuff from Paris Games Week (that's a thing?), the appropriate waiting time for spoilers, the new NieR game gets...

  Want to listen to this episode? Click here! This episode was recorded on October 13, 2015. This episode is 67 MB. This episode is 1 hour and 13 minutes long. This episode was produced...

The full crew is back together this week on Plus INT to talk about whether or not the podcast could be used as a weapon of mass destruction, the popularity of the Star Wars Battlefront beta, the introduction...

As was foretold by an ancient prophecy, when the celestial bodies align once more, the Beard shall return to us. This week on Plus INT, Russell "Beardman" Sanderson returns, bringing along new guest Will...

Want to listen to this episode? Click here! This episode was recorded on September 29, 2015. This episode is 65 MB. This episode is 1 hour and 10 minutes long. This episode was produced by...

This week on Plus INT, Gabe drags Preston off the MGSV Train and onto the Destiny Train, with Shannon coming along for the ride. They also discuss the SAG-AFTRA issue, the upcoming Star Wars Battlefront...

With our second mic finally deciding to cooperate with us, Plus INT celebrates this occasion by talking about Pokemon Go, the release of Destiny: The Taken King, the odd numbering of Kingdom Hearts, and...

  Want to listen to this episode? Click here! This episode was recorded on September 15, 2015. This episode is 65 MB. This episode is 1 hour and 12 minutes long. This episode was produced...

This week on Plus INT, the Power Trio covers the next expansion for The Witcher III, The differences between Frictional's SOMA and Amnesia (besides necessitating brown pants), and a tease of the upcoming...

"From the ashes of Plus INT comes a new show. Welcome to the Metal Gear Power Hour, brought to you by The Prairie! Starring Solid Preston, Liquid Gabriel, and Solidus Shannon, we bring you the latest news...

"Rising from the abyss of summer, Plus INT rides back for the semester on the Metal Gear Solid V hype train, bringing news of Hyper Light Drifter's release window, Don't Starve's upcoming new content,...

This week on Plus INT, the team covers Steam's paid mod controversy, the end of Silent Hills as we know it, Gengar joining the fight in Pokken Tournament, and the mandatory "OH DEAR GOD WHAT THE HECK IS...

For show notes on this episode, click here! SPOILERS for Game of Thrones and Ultimate Comics: Spider-Man This week on Plus INT, the crew gathers together for our 50th episode! They also talk about...

Alien invasions are often a terrifying and dramatic event in film. Explosions, lasers and missiles fly as the valiant human heroes fight to protect their planet from the attacking aliens. In the case of...

For show notes on this episode, click here! This week on Plus INT, the crew talks Nintendo Direct quite a bit as Mewtwo's first proper gameplay trailer is unveiled for Smash, Lucas makes a comeback,...

There are many things fans of From Software’s ‘Souls,’ games are familiar with; death, frustration, exhilaration and triumph are key among them. The series’ uncompromising yet fair difficulty...

Since the release of “Sim City 4” more than a decade ago, fans of the city builder genre have been through a sort of drought. “Societies” followed in 2007, but it was not well-received by fans,...

West Texas A&M University is home to professors with a wide array of backgrounds, both professional and non-professional. Among these is Dr. Paul H. Clark, professor of History at WT, who holds...

For show notes on this episode, click here! SPOILERS for Parks and Recreation This week on Plus INT, the crew returns to honor the memory of Leonard Nimoy, Mr. Spock himself and an amazing human being...

For show notes on this episode, click here! This week on Plus INT, Russell joins the crew once again as they talk about the return of O-Haruhi-sama, Ganon getting his own DLC for Hyrule Warriors, the...

Stephen King, the ever-prolific maestro of horror, has turned to one of the genre’s deepest and strangest roots for his latest piece, “Revival.” The story’s tone is set almost immediately by the...

The Texas Panhandle has an unfortunate problem, one that many school systems fail to properly educate young teens about. Sex Education is a touchy topic in the area; schools, teachers and parents differ...

For show notes on this episode, click here! SPOILERS for Five Nights at Freddy's From the new Prairie Studio, Plus INT is back! This week, the gang talks about the things they've been geeking out over...

Minimum wage works out to about 12 cents a minute.   At the beginning of 2015, the minimum wage was raised in 20 states and the District of Columbia. Texas was not among them, the state’s...

Big Hero 6” is the latest movie to be put out by Disney Animation Studios, inspired by a Marvel Comic superhero team of the same name. The story centers around the young Hiro Hamada, a robotics genius...

For show notes on this episode, click here! SPOILERS for Naruto, Big Hero 6 and Doctor Who Naruto is over and Gabe and Preston have a LOT to say about that. They also chat about the Majora's Mask remake,...

For show notes on this episode, click here! SPOILERS for Attack on Titan, Doctor Who, Future Diary (Mirai Nikki), Godzilla 2014, Red Dead Redemption There's going to be a Marvel and Attack on Titan...

For show notes on this episode, click here! SPOILERS for Guardians of the Galaxy, Kill la Kill and Nier! In this episode of Plus INT, Preston and Gabe get their geek over Super Smash Bros for Wii U...

Ed. Note: Written with the help of Russell Sanderson and Tyler Anderson   The name of Wendy Davis, a state senator from Fort Worth, quickly became recognized across Texas during the summer of...

For show notes on this episode, click here! SPOILERS for Binding of Isaac, Game of Thrones, Jojo's Bizarre Adventure, Katawa Shoujo, Ni no Kuni: Wrath of the White Witch! Gabe is banned from singing...

For show notes on this episode, click here! This week, Preston and Gabriel try to figure out why in the world anyone would want to make a Tetris movie. There's also talk of the next Windows OS, Hyper...

With their rapid capture of territory in Iraq and Syria, and the wave of violence and barbarism following along with them, the extremists known as the Islamic State have quickly gained notoriety in ...

For show notes on this episode, click here! SPOILERS for Shin Megami Tensei I and Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure! For the first Geeking Out episode, Preston and Gabe fanboy out about Jojo's Bizarre Adventure...

For a detailed list of show notes on this episode, including a list of links, click here! Plus INT is back from school and ready to start "season" three! This week, we talk about Nintendo news, Naruto...

“The band had been on the radio station and I would help out,” said Izaak Chavez, a graduate of WT, “I had made a joke that if they needed another guitarist to let me know.” Shortly afterwards,...

It’s spring. The weather is getting warmer, green leaves grow on the trees, the dead rise and the Nerf bullets fly. It’s time again for Humans vs. Zombies at West Texas A&M University, a game...

When students living in Cross and Jones hall first found out that both dorms were being reserved for incoming Freshmen enrolled in the university’s Living Learning Community program, reactions varied...

For a detailed list of show notes on this episode, including a list of links, click here! The gang's all here in this week's episode of Plus INT! We talk about the Varsity Theater closing, the latest...

In the heady days of my time in high school, I often found myself scouring the Internet in search of good creepy pasta. For those unfamiliar with the term, it’s a play on a play on words. Copy pastas...

Beginning next fall, West Texas A&M will be expanding and moving its Living Learning Communities. Focused on improving the experience of incoming freshmen, the program involves each group of students...

On Feb. 24 the Brock McGuire band, four Irish musicians playing a mix of songs one part traditional Irish music and one part Appalachian Bluegrass music, performed in the Northen Recital Hall to a...

This week Preston returns and the Plus INT crew geeks out about Twitch Plays Pokemon! We also talk about the Netflix-Comcast deal, superhero film casting, and Yellow City Comic-Con. For a detailed...

By the time one reads this paper, Comm Week 2014 will already be in full swing. Monday saw the Voice Game Show in the FAC recital hall as well as the Alumni Table Talk, which featured several WT Communication...

While I enjoy the occasional trip to the movies and streaming television shows, reading was my favorite way to consume stories before anything else. Getting lost in the pages and my own imagination...

People seem to develop oddly emotional relationships with their electronics. I can’t count the number of times I’ve seen someone angrily whack a TV with bad reception, desperately beg a bluescreening...

Even the most voracious reader would find the task of reading the complete works of Stephen King daunting at best. The native New England author, who published his first novel in 1973, isn’t helping...

  A small, sleek device sits on a person’s head as they walk down the street, like a pair of glasses without any lenses and a small square chunk of glass hovering just over one eye. The person...

Dr. Sarah Vartabedian’s New Media class has, over the course of the semester, been working on a project utilizing social media. The class, split into seven groups, has been tasked with creating fictional...

“Remember, remember, the fifth of November, the gunpowder, treason and plot,” said V, the eponymous character of the 1980’s graphic novel V for Vendetta by Alan Moore, “I see no reason why...

Shortly following the demise of the WT Confessions Facebook page, a new challenger has appeared. While following a similar format, where WTAMU students anonymously submit juicy tidbits to go up on...

This Halloween the Plus INT crew talks about spooky games, N64 remakes, Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. and more! SPOILERS for Assassin's Creed, Dangan Ronpa, Persona 2, Person 4 Arena, Madoka Magic and the...

“The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents. We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and...

Plus INT is back! Joining Preston and Gabe this week is guest host Shannon McKeown. The trio talks about the end of the Wii U and whether copyright violations on YouTube are going too far. Then, the...

SPOILERS for Attack on Titan and Warhammer 40k! In this week's episode of Plus INT the guys get their fanboy on over Warhammer, discuss the success of GTA V and the not-so-successful release of Beyond:...

In August 2012, Uber Entertainment launched a Kickstarter campaign as part of an initial wave of video games attempting to gain funding using the service. Their goal was a relatively modest $900,000....

WT students across campus have been reacting and adapting to the seventh version of Apple’s iOS, released Sept. 18. The update comes with a number of tweaks and polishes to Apple’s previous services,...

In this week's episode of Plus INT Gabe, Preston and Georgia gab about Steam OS, YouTube Comment Revamps and the passing of Nintendo's Hiroshi Yamauchi. And then they debate -- are visual novels the...

WT Core is bringing students a new way to keep their lives on track and in order. Partnering with Montreal-based company OOHLALA, students can now download the eponymous OOHLALA Campus App for IOS...

At its release, many longtime fans of Sid Meier’s Civilization series decried the fifth entry as being simplistic and dumbed down compared to its predecessors. The game’s one-unit-per-tile system,...

Saving the world is the task that noble goal gamers are often faced with, but every once in a while getting behind the reins of a powerful empire and conquering it can be just as fun. Paradox Interactive’s...

We start off this second "season" of Plus INT by catching you up on gaming and tech you news may have missed over the summer — oh, and we branch out into a whole new world of nerdiness by getting...

Returning students passing through the Jack B. Kelley Student Center may have spotted a new addition on their way. Announced last year, the long awaited eBuff Tech Store will be opening its doors from...

2011’s Payday: The Heist thrust gamers into the roles of four masked bank robbers who inevitably found themselves wading through endless masses of riot police to accomplish their objective. Those...

Infamous Twitter account @WTCrushes disappeared from the Internet last week on the same day The Prairie’s story on the account. Rumors began to grow among students concerning the demise of the account,...

An anonymous Twitter account donning the WT logo has exploded virtually overnight as various users post confessionals about crushes they have on particular WT students and explicit sexual statements...

Join us for episode fifteen of Plus INT as we slip into bad accents, long for Google Fiber, debate whether or not indie game developers are jumping ship from Microsoft to Sony, and more nerdy news....

WT students walking past the buffalo fountain met an unexpected surprise Monday afternoon, April 8.  A travelling group of preachers bearing signs emblazoned with slogans such as, “repent or perish,”...

This week Facebook is getting ready to launch a phone, Amazon has bought Goodreads, a federal judge rules used digital files can't be resold, The War Z gets hacked, WT hosts some geektastic events...

WTAMU’s Tech Club will host its first spring gaming tournament on April 6 in room 209 of the Classroom Center. “We were pretty well known for the fall tournament, but we decided to extend them...

Despite selling 1.1 million copies in its first two weeks after releasing, the launch of Maxis’ continuation of the long-running SimCity franchise has been marked by a range of issues, both in the...

Join us for episode eleven of Plus INT! This week, we talk about possible new planets, iWatches, Pebbles and the return of Whose Line Is It Anyway? (Complete with squees.) Then, we debate whether or...

Sony has finally paid off the hype the company has been constructing over the last few weeks by unleashing a torrent of details on their challenger in the next console generation, the PlayStation 4....

Scientists at NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory believe they might have found the youngest black hole in our galaxy after observing the remnant of a relatively recent supernova for two and a half...

Plus INT goes into the double digits and loses a host! (Temporarily.) We talk about the Facebook and Apple hacks, the latest Destiny news, the Russian meteor (and the Russians' reaction to it... or...

Students looking to work out at WT have a variety of options available thanks to the Virgil Henson Activity Center; among those options are the fitness classes of Stephanie Stampfli. The mother of...

Following a long series of financial struggles, which culminated in bankruptcy, videogame publisher THQ has closed its doors. The publisher’s various properties and development studios were auctioned...

Gaming is a pastime that many students keep with them as they move into college life. Finding time between class and studying to unwind and escape the pressures of homework, deadlines and exams can...

Join us for the sixth episode of Plus INT! This time we tackle the question of whether or not video games cause gun violence, talk about the success of the 2012 Child's Play Charity, chat about the...

Valve Software, developers of series such as Half Life and Portal, has confirmed Internet rumors of a move to hardware production by announcing its intention to enter the console market in force with...

Hotline Miami is an ultra violent top-down action game developed by the two-man team of Dennaton Games. In the game, players control an unnamed man who begins receiving mysterious phone calls in coded...

Despite the title, recent PC release Natural Selection 2 doesn’t have as much to do with Charles Darwin as one would think. Beginning life as a mod for the first Half Life, Natural Selection pits the...

Join us for the third episode of ​Plus INT​, in which our three geeky co-hosts are joined by Tyler Anderson! And, as always, we discuss the week’s nerdy news — Steven Sinofsky's departure from...

“The Perks of Being a Wallflower,” a film adaptation of Stephen Chbosky’s novel of the same name, follows the story of troubled teenager Charlie, played by Logan Lerman of Percy Jackson fame,...

Where is the line drawn on privacy on the Internet, and should journalists be hunting down and outing the personal information of previously anonymous users? Reddit, a popular news and content aggregator,...

Join us for the first episode of ​Plus INT​, in which our three geeky co-hosts (Preston Thomas, Ernie Arizpe and Georgia Romig) discuss the week's nerdy news -- from Hurricane Sandy to the Disney-Lucasfilm...