There's been a bit of a Renaissance in gaming lately as developers old styles of games and revisit them in a new light. The best of these, such as Bionic Commando: Rearmed, take the solid underpinnings of the original game while updating some of the peripheral elements and presentation for a modern audience ( Read more... )

Ah Monopoly, the classic board game of finance and negotiations. A game of high risks and competitive play that captivates the world over, at least until you get down to the last two players. For most people, this is either where they stop playing Monopoly, or where other people make them before the game goes on forever ( Read more... )

Video game piracy has been a bit of a hot news item, what with all copy protection software that seems to be designed to cause honest gamers to pirate their own games.  People forget that piracy has nibbled at the heels of the video game industry throughout most of it's existence.  Even cartridges, whose very design is practically a form of copy ( Read more... )

In my time on the Internet, I've seen a lot of crazy video game controllers that tread the line between practicality and awesomeness.  However, I think I can honestly say I've seen one that takes the crown of most well-intentioned, but questionable practical game controller ever made:


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At the risk of sounding incredibly hypocritical, I've never quite understood the purpose of Twitter.  I mean, I can understand the value of being able to post something from your phone (I've done it quite a few times myself), but I don't know how I feel about a service completely devoted to that end ( Read more... )

Dance Dance Revolution is a video game concept that practically screams it's Japanese-ness.  After all, who besides Japan would come up with a game that involves you jumping up and down like an idiot in front of (potentially) large crowds of people?  They are the same country that came up with head-to-head arcade cabinets so you never have to worry ( Read more... )

Contrary to what a lot non-video game playing public thinks, video games are a terrible simulacrum of real life.  This is because from a development standpoint, real life has too many gameplay restrictions ( Read more... )

Like it or not, Pokémon has long since its fad status and become a permanent fixture of the gaming landscape.  Pikachu and his ilk are about as iconic to people as Mario or Zelda.  Interestingly enough though, the whole line almost got makeover for its original release ( Read more... )

Generally speaking, Atari was very self conscious of the graphic capabilities of the original 2600.  Most games would have extremely fanciful cartridge art, page ads and comic book inserts to gussy up the fact the characters were made up of about five pixels.  Occasionally this would lead them to create ads that were so fanciful that you had to ( Read more... )

One of the things you learn to accept when you buy a Nintendo home console is that the game selection will not be as good as the competing systems.  This was true when Nintendo was consistently at the bottom on the pack, and still remains so now that Nintendo is way out in first.

The difference is almost a reverse of Nintendo's old "quality over ( Read more... )