Gaming

In Japan, the Wii's lead over the PS3 shrank from 6-to-1 in May to just 1.7-to-1 in June, according to Japanese magazine publisher Enterbrain. According to the publisher, Nintendo sold 235,990 Wii in a five week period ending June...

Heaven help me, I somehow managed to completely miss Chrono Trigger -- one of the most popular console RPGs in gaming history -- when it debuted on the Super Nintendo all the way back in August 1995. Blame it...

Now there's a surprise: Everyone says Sony's servers are getting hammered, but I just sucked the entire update down through a high latency 1.5 Mbps satellite straw in all of 15 minutes. The weird thing about all my Sony...

When it comes to game design and cutscenes, everyone has an opinion, even your friendly neighborhood Game On grumbler. Case in point, I've had a read through Martin Herink's think piece at Gamasutra entitled "The Problem of the Cutscene"...

The state of Minnesota, land of ten thousand lakes, home to Neil Gaiman, Garrison Keillor, and the artist formerly known as the artist formerly known as Prince, just had its hands slapped for attempting to fine underage buyers of...

Score one, or two, or maybe even ten for Microsoft, as Harmonix and MTV just announced that Rock Band 2 will debut exclusively on the Xbox 360 this September. Well sort of exclusively. Temporarily exclusively, i.e. for a month...

Buckle up for another study concluding that while the general US economy may be slumping, the video games market is virtually bulletproof. According to DFC, the worldwide interactive entertainment industry is on track to achieve revenues of billion...

The ice sheath splash has finally melted, it's now official, and while I'm not exactly barreled over by the announcement because I've always felt a trifle conflicted about the merits of the Diablo series, I'm definitely intrigued. What I...

In a move sure to annoy Microsoft but really surprise no one, Sony today confirmed it's planning to offer downloadable movies on the PlayStation 3 sometime this summer. Japan and Europe will follow suit at a later date, and...

It's saying something when the worst you can yammer about a virtually intact mobile version of Guitar Hero is that you'll have to give your string-strummin' hand a breather every five songs or so. I've been playing Vicarious Visions'...