"The Chronicles of Riddick: Assault on Dark Athena" (rated M, $60 on Xbox 360 or PlayStation 3, $50 on PC): "The Chronicles of Riddick: Escape from Butcher Bay" was a sleeper hit on the original Xbox and PC back in 2004. It has the distinction of being maybe the best [...]
If you buy a lot of video games, it's hard not to feel like you're being taken for a ride sometimes. Between Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 titles' being priced at $60, and Nintendo's refusal to drop prices even for 2-year-old launch titles, you can spend a lot of money [...]
The Beatles' Apple Corps and EMI Music announced today that on Sept. 9, the day "The Beatles: Rock Band" hits store shelves, we'll also be able to buy remastered, stereo versions of the Beatles' 12 albums, as well as "Magical Mystery Tour" and the two "Past Masters" discs, which will [...]
The Nintendo DSi ($170): Nintendo's latest revision to its DS line of handhelds will eventually make current handhelds obsolete. The new device is fully compatible with all existing DS games. Plus, its two digital cameras, ability to download games and store them on SD cards, play music and browse the [...]
While Sony's announcement that the PlayStation 2 was getting a price cut, from $130 to $100, wasn't what some folks were hoping for, the long-awaited $100 price point means you have very few reasons not to pick up the widest-selling video game console with the deepest library of titles.AOL-owned gaming [...]
In lieu of this morning's planned PlayStation 2 price cut-related post, which will go up later today after I receive some Web video-related training, I'll share with you a brief anecdote shedding a little too much light on my personal life.Yesterday morning, my wife woke up from a dream in [...]
If "Major League Baseball 2K9" (rated E, $60 on Xbox 360 or PlayStation 3, $50 on Wii) were a baseball player, it wouldn't be San Francisco Giants ace and cover athlete Tim Lincecum. It'd be Oakland's Gio Gonzalez, a blue-chip prospect with a repertoire of filthy pitches, cursed with an [...]
"Fallout 3" (rated M, $60 on Xbox 360 or $50 on PC): Yeah, you can play "Fallout 3" on the PlayStation 3, too, but "The Pitt" downloadable content, released this week, is exclusive to the 360 and PC. In it, you'll travel from the game's Washington, D.C., setting to post-nuclear [...]
The annual Game Developers Conference in San Francisco isn't traditionally known as an event where huge news is made. Rather, it's a place for people who make the games we love to network, pick up a few pointers in one of the conference's many seminars, and try out new technology. [...]
With the launch of the DSi just around the corner, publishers are apparently flooding the market with top-notch, cameraless titles that'll play just fine on your DS Lite."Grand Theft Auto: Chinatown Wars" (rated M, $35 on DS): Gaming's biggest franchise (Sorry, Mario) hits its smallest screen, and so far it's [...]