With the games industry in its typical post-Christmas lull, I've held off doing my weekly recaps of new, interesting-looking games. This has been a quiet month, but a few titles worth taking a look at have snuck into stores or will be released next week. Here are a few of [...]
After spending dozens of hours playing "Fallout 3" and "Banjo-Kazooie: Nuts & Bolts," two titles that can be delightful time traps for the obsessive, I'm using the January new release drought to catch up on fall blockbusters I played only briefly upon release. My current obsession is Microsoft's "Fable II" [...]
Microsoft set my heart aflutter last week at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas when Xbox 360 group manager Aaron Greenberg told gaming blog Joystiq that the company was "looking at" increasing the size of Xbox Live's friends list to something larger than its current, 100-friend limit.While 100 friends [...]
On Thursday, the NPD Group released final 2008 retail sales figures for the video game industry, and corporate spin machines went into overdrive, with various companies sending out press releases to reassure investors and video game geeks that 2008 was a magnificent year.One of the bullet points Nintendo highlighted, though, [...]
Electronics retailer Best Buy is clearing stock of some older (but still decent) Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 games this week. I swung in today to pick up a copy of "Condemned 2: Bloodshot," the M-rated follow up to 360 launch title "Condemned: Criminal Origins." The first game featured now-famous [...]
I'm using my purchase of a PS3 as an excuse to upgrade my home theater setup ever so slightly. While waiting for a new receiver and the appropriate cables to arrive, though, I couldn't help but rip open my PS3 packaging to see what was inside the box that included [...]
If you subscribe to Electronic Gaming Monthly, the current issue of the magazine, with the X-Men's Wolverine on the cover, is the last one you'll get after the struggling magazine and its affiliated 1UP Digital Network were sold to Hearst, owner of the similarly themed UGO Entertainment. EGM, just one [...]
Back when "MLB Front Office Manager" was announced in October, it sounded like a dream come true for folks who religiously comb statistics-driven baseball sites like The Hardball Times and Retrosheet. After all, here's a game that lets stathead Giants fans outraged that the team continues to employ Dave Roberts [...]
For Xbox 360 owners, Sony's PlayStation 3 can be a tough sell. Many of its best games ("Rock Band 2," "Fallout 3" and "Grand Theft Auto IV," to name a few) are playable on the 360 or PC. The machine includes a Blu-ray high-definition DVD player, but standalone players sell [...]
By all accounts, I should be an avid PC gamer.Many of my favorite console games " "Fallout 3," the "Elder Scrolls" series, "Left 4 Dead," "Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic" " play better on the PC, thanks to better performance and the PC scene's avid community of modders. [...]