If the original 3DS seemed a little puny for a games handheld touting “glasses-free 3D,” Nintendo’s new, almost paperback-sized $200 3DS XL expands your range of options to two: pint-sized or big gulp.
If you already own a …
Microsoft just rolled out the most significant change to its iconic corporate logo since 1987, trading curves for straight lines and black-and-white for vivid colors.
It’s not just the four-color Windows icon that’s morphed, …
You’ve probably heard someone, somewhere, claim smartphones are encroaching on handheld gaming’s turf. It’s what you’re seeing anywhere you go, after all: in planes, trains and automobiles, or maybe at family get-togethers, …
Microsoft Kinect price, come on down — the company just knocked roughly one-third off the retail price of its motion-control sensor for the Xbox 360, permanently. That’s the official word, courtesy Microsoft PR poobah Larry …
You’ve swept through Diablo III like a scythe through styrofoam pellets. You have every character class maxed, every item slot perfected. You’ve soloed through “Inferno,” which is even harder than reading that musty 14th-century …
Imagine rockets so small you could fit them through a piggybank slot. Imagine those rockets jetting microscopic beams of ions drawn from a reservoir of liquid plasma. Now imagine — or don’t, because they’re not imaginary — that …
I never got around to playing Epic Mickey, and that’s a shame, because I’ve played nearly everything else by game design luminary Warren Spector. I don’t think luminary’s too strong a label, though his output’s dwindled in recent …
It’s definitely not the sort of news you want to run across on an otherwise lovely Friday afternoon: Brian Fargo, a game developer with inXile Entertainment, posted something he claims is an email received from an OnLive employee …
I keep wanting to spell Pandaria “Panderia,” I have no idea why. It’s not like Blizzard’s forthcoming World of Warcraft is pandering to anyone. After all, it has pandas, with two A’s. Kung-fu pandas. They wear the same Kung-Fu …
There’s this mega-gaming show going on in Germany right now, the European equivalent of our own E3. You’ve might have noticed it echoed on a handful of game blogs, as those who made the trip across the pond attempt to telegraph …
Don’t get that title wrong, Papo & Yo is still a video game through and through: It has climbable ladders, autosaving, platforms you tap a gamepad to jump between and geometry-bending puzzles (no really, actual geometry bending) …
Two weeks: That’s how old my newborn child is — a baby boy, our first — as of Monday this week. Everything’s upside-down right now: sleep, eating, walking, writing, thinking, the fabric of space-time, you name it. His mother …