(Reviews) You can play your PCs games wherever and whenever you want--even on an underpowered mini-laptop--thanks to streaming (and one day, cloud computing).
(Reviews) Get re-Bourne in a video game, enjoy some free online espionage, and check out sneaky gadgets to play gunshoe--or to avoid prying eyes during the work day.
(Reviews) Who needs World of Warcraft? Discover a couple of free online games that are worth your time, and one regular MMO--Age of Conan--that's worth your money.
(Reviews) We're all about being healthy this week. Break a sweat with Wii Fit, learn about some other games designed to overcome your lazy streak, and check out a couple of characters that we placed into a 12-step program.
(Reviews) Can Grand Theft Auto teach you Russian? Can slugging Street Fighters help you learn Japanese? This week, we get schooled in unconventional places.
(Reviews) You may have heard of this game: Grand Theft...Auto...something. Plus we score you a couple free GTA games and take a spin with Mario's new ride.
(Reviews) This week we tune out with more free TV, watch some classic full-motion video games, and celebrate 13-plus years of commanding and conquering the world.
(Reviews) This week, music draws you into the game, Hulu beams up everything in sight, and the Brothers Karamazov of the Nintendo universe form a fight club.
(News) Rumors that the Chinese government ordered the country's top online video site to close circulated on the Internet Friday, but appeared unfounded as the site continued to operate and news reports disappeared from top sites.
(News) Some of the top technology companies, including Intel, Microsoft, Dell and Advanced Micro Devices joined forces Tuesday to form the PC Gaming Alliance, which will try to promote the PC as a gaming platform.
(News) Mind control, game announcements, and graphics cards--the gaming elite flocks to the annual Game Developers Conference to discuss what you'll play in 2008.
(Reviews) Family togetherness is great, but not when the only thing left to talk about is your aunt's bunion surgery. These games will put the laughs back in the room.
(Reviews) Looking for a toy that won't turn your child's mind to mush, and is fun to play with? We could almost call these choices educational if they weren't so darn entertaining.
(News) Video games that include an online element expose players and publishers to a host of new risks for which they must prepare. That's the message from French lobbying group the Internet Rights Forum, which issued guidelines for publishers and legislators on Tuesday.
(News) Nintendo Wii currently has the greatest number of games available for download, though all are re-released titles says, Electronic Entertainment Design and Research.
(Reviews) The Crysis PC game is magnificently rendered, with breathtaking graphics, but this first-person shooter has some quirks that leave it just short of perfection.
(News) Users of the MySpace.com social networking Website will be able to add multiplayer games to their personal profile pages, and play them for free, from next year. MySpace has struck a deal with Oberon Media Inc. to make available hundreds of casual games from its portfolio, the companies said Tuesday.
(News) Microsoft Corp. confirmed that it will spin off Bungie Studios, developer of the "Halo 3" video game that recently set records for opening day sales.
(News) Microsoft Corp.'s alien-killer gaming thrill, "Halo 3," has broken the U.S. sales record for a new video game by garnering an estimated US$170 million in its first 24-hours on sale, the company said late Wednesday.
(News) The Tokyo Game Show wrapped up on Sunday evening after a four-day run during which visitors got a chance to try out some of the hottest upcoming video games from Japan's major publishers.
(News) Announced just over a week ago, Tecmo Ltd.'s "Ninja Gaiden II" is undoubtedly one of the most highly anticipated games here at this year's Tokyo Game Show.
(News) Microsoft Corp.'s Xbox 360 games console got a big boost on Wednesday when Square Enix Co. Ltd., the last major Japanese games developer not to have embraced the console, said it would release a title on the platform.
(News) Jim Pointer isn't much of a gamer, but earlier this month he spent an intense 20 minutes coordinating an imaginary city's response to a toxic spill emergency, at Sandia National Laboratories in Livermore, California.
(News) Wikia Inc. is offering people who love online games a chance to use its guides to help them navigate landscapes, and beat foes in major games through tools developed by [Playxpert LLC].
(News) Sony issued an public apology on Friday to the Church of England due to its unpermissive use of the Manchester Cathedral in a violent Resistance: Fall of Man shootout sequence.
(News) EA unveiled on Thursday plans to offer two unique control modes for future Wii sports games made by the publisher. "Family Play" will enable simplified control schemes for casual gamers while "Advanced Play" offers more control for experienced gamers.
(News) The Church of England is calling on Sony Computer Entertainment Inc. to apologize for using one of its churches as the scene for a gory firefight in its PlayStation 3 game "Resistance -- Fall of Man."
(News) Sony Computer Entertainment Inc. has launched an internal inquiry following an event in Athens last month that featured a decapitated goat and topless models to promote its new game "God of War II."
(News) Microsoft Corp. will to extend its Xbox Live online gaming and entertainment network to Windows in May as part of its plan to offer more Web-based services through its desktop OS.
(News) Peter Jackson, auteur of the Lord of the Rings trilogy and King Kong, is reported to have signed on with Microsoft to create two interactive series for the Xbox 360 to be released in episodic format. According to a piece from gaming blog Joystiq, reporting from Wednesday's second annual "Blogger Breakfast" event at GDC, one of the series will be based on the Halo franchise while the other will be a brand new IP.
(News) Even with Shigeru Miyamoto's keynote just minutes away, Nintendo has already made a huge announcement at GDC regarding this year's second quarter lineup for the North American market. And the focal point of this lineup is the announcement of Pokemon Battle Revolution, the first Wii game that will take advantage of the console's online capabilities.
