Shadows of the Damned: Japanese legends collide with EA and Mexploitation films
At a recent press event in San Francisco, eclectic game creator Goichi Suda took to the stage and described his new game Shadows of...
The quarter: The arcade’s secret regulator
As I child wandering through the arcade with my meager dollar's worth of quarters trying to decide exactly which combination of machines would give...
Call for sanity: Stop spending money on limited editions, cat helmets
Does anyone actually have a girlfriend who would let them decorate the living room with this stuff? I think I’ve finally gotten over shelling...
News Blips: Used games worse than piracy, 360s for students, Hellgate returns, and more
You know what my personal beef with used game sales is? Giving up beautiful box art for a sheet of paper with the game's...
Video Blips: Shadows of the Damned, Rage, F.E.A.R. 3, and more
Sometimes a trailer comes along that seizes the heart with emotional intensity while providing the viewer with fond, everlasting memories. This isn't that trailer....
The rise of tangential video-game trailers
The art of video-game trailers has come a long way in the relatively short life of the medium. Communicating the pertinent details of an...
Work hard, play hard: Students get a free Xbox 360 with Windows 7 PCs
Great news for college students (and perhaps not so great news for parents): Microsoft announced today that it will offer a free Xbox 360...
PlayStation Store to return May 24 now that PlayStation Network is back online
Last month — on April 19, to be exact — I discovered that one of my all-time favorite PlayStation games, Xenogears, had come to...
Is gaming a shameful hobby?
I am a proud member of Club Nintendo. When I get a new Nintendo product, I sit down and enter in all those stupid...
Zynga acquires DNA Games, 14th acquisition in 12 months
Zynga said today it is acquiring social game maker DNA Games. That’s the 14th acquisition Zynga has made in 12 months. Zynga is in...