It’s Black Friday, the day when stores open at ungodly hours to offer holiday shoppers ridiculous, money-saving deals. In fact, you’re probably getting ready to go wait in line for a $200 flatscreen television right now. But if you change your mind and want to skip out on the mall madness, see our suggestions for other things you could …
I’ve never been able to play a Tony Hawk game. Not well, anyway.
When the popular skateboarding franchise based on the legendary skater started in 1999 withTony Hawk’s Pro Skater, the title was universally praised. Pushing the right buttons at the right time would allow players to pull off chains of sick tricks never before seen in a …
On November 23, 2004, Blizzard Entertainment launched what would become one of the most successful games in video game history — World of Warcraft. Two expansions, 11.5 million global subscribers and an Emmy-winning South Park parody later, the massively multiplayer online fantasy game is still going strong.
Blizzard’s Jeff Kaplan, …
We may not judge books by their covers, but no one said anything about video games.
In the interest of helping video game marketing departments, our box art reviews look at game covers from the perspective of the average video game shopper. We look at new releases to rate the design and try to determine, strictly by a game’s cover, …
In case you haven’t noticed, video games have become frequent fodder for movies. In fact, games are so hot in Hollywood right now that producers aren’t even waiting for the title to come out before they decide to adapt it.
Like Capcom’s Dark Void. Today it was announced that Brad Pitt’s production company Plan B Entertainment has …
If you were hoping to see Blizzard’s action-RPG Diablo III anytime soon, don’t hold your breath.
Last week, we learned that the game was put into the ‘in the next few years’ category, along with Starcraft II expansions and the World of Warcraft maker’s unnamed new massively multiplayer online game.
The news is crushing to Diablo …
If you were visiting Rockefeller Center in New York City this past Saturday, you may have noticed throngs of people getting drenched while a DJ spun innocuous hits from Coldplay.
The rain-soaked ruckus was all for the release of New Super Mario Bros. Wii at the Nintendo World Store, where Mario fans were able purchase their copy of …
When Left 4 Dead 2 was announced earlier this year, I didn’t want to like it. Why? Because I loved the first game so much.
And I wasn’t the only one: When the game was announced at the annual E3 video game conference in June, it already had its fair share of skeptics. In fact, calling some of these people skeptics would be the nice …
When The Beatles: Rock Band came out in September, our dream of playing through the legendary rock group’s career with plastic instruments was fulfilled. And MTV Games, Harmonix and Apple Corps. are continuing to make sure that we’ll get to play through their career… and the entire Beatles catalog.
Hot on the heels of the Abbey Road …
If you download game demos as much as I do, then you’ll be glad to hear that Nintendo is giving us free demos for its WiiWare titles. Starting today, the company is letting players test drive brand-new title Pokémon Rumble (above) as well as older games BIT.TRIP Beat, Crystal Chronicles: My Life as a Darklord, NyxQuest: Kindred Spirits …
Attendees of the New Super Mario Bros. Wii launch event held at the Nintendo World Store in New York City on Saturday dressed up as Mario and Princess Peach.
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Last month, I had one burning question for Mario Bros. creator, Mr. Shigeru Miyamoto. I asked him why Princess Peach isn’t a playable character in the new Mario game, New Super Mario Bros. Wii, which was just released yesterday.
He said:
Well, originally I thought it would be nice to have Princess Peach in there as a playable
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