What a glorious time it must be to be a little kid who loves video games.There's no way to say this without sounding like an old man, but when I was a kid (the '80s), finding an adult to play "Lady Bug" or "Zaxxon" on my ColecoVision was impossible. My [...]
"Resident Evil 5" (rated M, $60 on Xbox 360 or PlayStation 3): Chris Redfield, one of the stars of the first "Resident Evil" from the PlayStation days, travels to West Africa to deal with the bioterrorism threat posed by the T-Virus, which turns ordinary folks into murderous zombies. The lovely [...]
If you're itching to pick up "Resident Evil 5" (rated M, $60 for Xbox 360 or PlayStation 3) at the stroke of midnight tonight, your best bet is Hollywood Video-owned Game Crazy. All the company's stores, including its two in Sonoma County, will be open from 8 p.m. to 1 [...]
By way of the Game Politics blog comes a story so crazy it's gotta be true. New Zealand's government censor (Wait, New Zealand has a government censor?) has threatened to throw the book at parents who buy their children games rated for adults 18 and older such as "BioShock" and [...]
With Friday's release of "Resident Evil 5" (rated M, $60 for Xbox 360 or PlayStation 3), gamers can plunge headlong into a simmering controversy over whether the game's racially charged imagery is in poor taste.Unlike the first several "Resident Evil" titles, the current installment is set not in the United [...]
While the Wii's affordable launch price, must-have buzz and innovative motion controls have turned the video game industry on its head, perhaps its most interesting legacy is the way it's defined the idea of the hit game.Nintendo's "Wii Play" (rated E), for example, may very well end up going down [...]
There's a hilarious post over at AOL-owned video game blog Joystiq in which they unexpectedly break down the similarities between the packaging and advertising for Avon's Derma-Full face cream and the packaging for the Umbrella Corporation's fictional skin-care product Regenerate. I love it when video games meet the real world [...]
The endless parade of rosy quarterly earnings statements from GameStop seems to have everyone clamoring for a slice of the used-game sales pie. Last week, after word got out that Toys R Us is experimenting with game trade-ins and sales at a couple of stores in New York, gaming blogs [...]
"Halo Wars" (rated T, $60 on Xbox 360): Don't let the Spartans on the cover and the "Halo" name fool you. "Halo Wars" isn't a first-person shooter, and it's not developed by Bungie, who made the first three "Halo" games. Instead, we get a real-time strategy game from Ensemble Studios, [...]
A little while back, I suggested that it was time for Electronic Arts and the makers of other sports games to stop putting out so many new versions of games on a yearly basis and instead sell roster updates as downloadable content. Well, it looks like EA is taking a [...]