Video games worth giving
A look at titles worth picking up for whatever types of gamers might be on your holiday shopping list.
‘ModNation Racers’ hands-on
With robust character-, vehicle- and track-customization features, upcoming PlayStation 3 exclusive "ModNation Racers" looks to one-up "Mario Kart Wii." I got a chance to play the game and talk to its creators at last week's Game Developers Conference in San Francisco.
Banjo-Kazooie: Nuts & Bolts review
If those admittedly fun, yet astonishingly uncreative, Lego "Star Wars," "Indiana Jones" and "Batman" games leave you longing for a truly inspired building-block game, "Banjo-Kazooie: Nuts & Bolts" is for you. "Nuts & Bolts" (rated E10+, $40 for Xbox 360) is the latest installment in a series whose heyday came [...]
New games for the week of Nov. 9
If you're a lapsed "World of Warcraft" player looking for an excuse to relapse, this week's expansion pack, "Wrath of the Lich King" ($40, rated T) should provide plenty of justification. "Lich King" adds a new continent to explore in the form of the lazily named frigid land of Northrend. [...]