TAG RESULTS FOR: video games

Buy Battlefield 3, Get Early Access to Mass Effect 3 Demo

Buy Battlefield 3, Get Early Access to Mass Effect 3 Demo

If you’re one of the thousands of gamers who purchased Battlefield 3, you’ll get early access to the Mass Effect 3 multiplayer beta in January 2012. Continue reading

David Hasselhoff Wants EA to Give Him His Own Video Game

David Hasselhoff Wants EA to Give Him His Own Video Game

David Hasselhoff is nothing if not ambitious. ‘The Hoff’ says he’s already in talks with EA about having his very own video game. Continue reading

According to Angry Birds, Male Gamers more Likely to Spend Money

According to Angry Birds, Male Gamers more Likely to Spend Money

In a study involving Angry Birds, it was proven that male gamers are 35% more likely to buy the full version of a game after playing the trial version. Continue reading

Next Duke Nukem Will Be 'Revealed Soon', Promises Not to Suck

Next Duke Nukem Will Be ‘Revealed Soon’, Promises Not to Suck

On the heels of the wildly un-successful “Duke Nukem Forever”, Gearbox has announced that a new, “better” Duke Nukem is in the works. Continue reading

Why L.A. Noire Took 7 Years -- Team Bondi Shares Dirty Secrets

Why L.A. Noire Took 7 Years — Team Bondi Shares Dirty Secrets

Some games (we’re looking at you, Duke Nukem) take years to get through development. However, there are actual reasons behind why L.A. Noire took 7 years to make, revealed in some shocking comments by former members of Team Bondi. Continue reading

World of Warcraft is Now Free-to-Play -- With a Catch

World of Warcraft is Now Free-to-Play — With a Catch

Now, you can adventure through Azeroth without paying a dime — for awhile, anyway. Blizzard’s new pricing model offers more options for cash-strapped gamers. Continue reading

Hackers Steal Personal Data from 1.2m SEGA Customers

Hackers Steal Personal Data from 1.2m SEGA Customers

In the wake of the high-profile hacking of Sony’s PSN, SEGA has now announced that users of SEGA Pass have had their personal data stolen. This includes names, emails, birthdays and encoded passwords. Continue reading

NES Built Into a NES Cartridge

NES Built Into a NES Cartridge

A man has built a working Nintendo Entertainment System into a Nintendo game cartridge. Why? Because he could, probably. Continue reading

Video Game Museum to Open in San Francisco (maybe)

Video Game Museum to Open in San Francisco (maybe)

A non-profit group out of San Francisco is trying to raise the funds to open a comprehensive computing and video game museum in San Francisco. Continue reading

Our weekly column: Unevenly Distributed

Unevenly Distributed: How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The @

I start this column with only one aim. I would like to try to impart my love for one of the oldest, and most impenetrable, and aesthetically unattractive, and sociopathic and schizophrenic genres of computer game to a reader who will doubtlessly hate it for all of those exact reasons. I’m talking about rogue-likes, so called because of their ancestry in a progenitor called Rogue. Let’s see how I do. Continue reading