Gaming

In a move that is sure to result in a "World's Greatest Dad" mug, one creative father constructed a fully-functioning cake based around the game 'Angry Birds'.

A job posting on a gaming industry website may have just confirmed that 'Diablo III' for home consoles is or will very soon be in development.

Roxio's resident "Mighty Eagle," Peter Vesterbacka, has confirmed that 'Angry Birds' will be finding its way to more mobile platforms. In addition, Vesterbacka also let slip that a 3D version of the game is in the works.

"Baba Yetu," the opening theme song from 'Civilization IV,' became the first song to be composed for a video game to win a Grammy at last night's Grammy Awards.

Adam Rothstein is a blogger, tech thinker, unemployed philosopher�and now, a beta tester of one of the coveted Google Chrome notebook computers. In the first of four posts about the beta experience, Adam finds that the unnanounced arrival of the device makes him feel like a combination of The Matrix's Neo and a Milo from The Phantom Tollbooth.

A deft, original game that combines throwback imagery with physical gameplay�its very simplicity demonstrating the power of game development. Video after the jump.

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.

The trailer for the long-awaited, much-maligned Duke Nukem Forever may be pixelated, but it tries hard�too hard�to pull no punches. Warning: although blurred, some bits are not safe for work. Video after the jump.

Reviewing Reality is Broken, Jane McGonigal's manifesto of gaming for a better world, Ian Bogost realizes that he likes the messy, repellent, stunning reality we've got.

Julian Dibbell says that while Second Life seems to have failed to live up to its early promise, it has helped further the baked in gamification of life online and off.