For this week’s ‘you’ve got to be kidding me’ story, an out of work game designer in Texas wanted to do something useful during his time off–so he decided to build his very own nuclear reactor at home. The gamer,… Read More »

I have to admit, when Brendon showed me the screenshots, I thought he was doing a little PhotoShop magic on me. But after the haze lifted from my brain and the reality sunk in, it turns out that not only… Read More »

Sony didn’t have much of a gaming presence at this year’s Consumer Electronics Show. In fact, the way I heard it told, if it weren’t for a small showing of Metal Gear Solid 4, you’d never know Sony was even… Read More »

Comments on the xbox.com forums, regarding server problems on Xbox Live, are still coming in loud and clear from dissatisfied users who are still struggling to play their games online. The posts on the forum range from irate customers who… Read More »

When you leave the creativity up to the Ph.D. stiffs this is what happens. This may be the nastiest series of gaming related illnesses since those Japanese Voltron games started giving people seizures, or that time Warcraft killed off half… Read More »

If you’ve ever played any of the Civilization games, you can probably identify with the hoards of fellow gamers who have spent countless hours playing these historical strategy based titles. The man responsible for the series, Sid Meier, will be… Read More »

The Emmy Awards, from the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences have bestowed the coveted award for excellence in engineering creativity to Nintendo’s Wii for its motion-sensing controllers and to the DS’ touch screen control. Nintendo of America VP… Read More »

GameFly has been a huge success ever since it took videogame rentals the Netflix route in 2002. The rent-by-mail service has also tapped into the used game sales business, offloading games as rental demand decreases. Now, the company is considering… Read More »

In an interesting journalistic move, console gaming magazine Electronic Gaming Monthly has been banned from further writing about any content specifically regarding game companies Ubisoft, Midway and Sony’s sports game division. Apparently this was done in the response to a… Read More »

Diamond, not as good as gold but better than silver? However the hierarchy goes, Diamond XBL members won’t be enjoying their free status any longer because sometime this year a fee will be forced upon all Diamond members. The Diamond… Read More »