Last Updated: January 3, 2012 1:22pm
'Diamond Dash' rides social mobile wave
More than 10 million Facebook users play glitzy Diamond Dash each month, according to developer Wooga, making it one of the most popular games on the social networking site.
Last Updated: December 24, 2011 3:07pm
Top games of 2011
Bigger is not always better. And with apologies to the Goonies, “good enough” just isn't good enough.
Last Updated: December 21, 2011 1:58pm
Playbook finally gets Angry Birds
It took seven months, but Research In Motion has finally delivered on a promise made by co-founder Mike Lazaridis. Angry Birds is available on RIM's PlayBook tablet.
Last Updated: December 18, 2011 2:00am
'Rayman Origins' side-scrolling at its best
With the holidays nearly upon us, I'm going to embrace the spirit of the season and not be snarky or grouchy or finger-pointy or judgey-judgerson.
Last Updated: December 18, 2011 2:00am
Tilley's gamer gift guide
Every year as the holiday season draws nigh, it falls to me to make last-minute recommendations for folks looking to buy gifts for the video gamers on their shopping lists. And I do not take this responsibility lightly.
Last Updated: December 15, 2011 11:10am
Sony stands by PS3 sales target
Sony Corp said it was keeping to its target to sell 15 million PlayStation 3 game machines in the year to end-March, even as a long-running debt crisis grips Europe, one of the Japanese electronics group's most important markets.
Last Updated: December 15, 2011 11:11am
Olympus ex-CEO attacks Japan investors
The whistleblower in Japan's Olympus Corp scandal, ex-CEO Michael Woodford, blasted Japanese shareholders on Thursday for failing to stand up for him, amid signs that domestic and foreign investors are split over his campaign to be reinstated.
Last Updated: December 10, 2011 2:00am
'To the Moon' unforgettable
A lot about video games has evolved during the past decades. Games today look stunning compared to their pixelated counterparts of days gone by. They sound amazing. They feature novel motion-sensing controls and deep online modes. Games have come a long way, baby.
Last Updated: December 10, 2011 2:00am
More is less in 'Infinity Blade II'
Revenge is a dish best served cold, they say. And correctly prepared, it is quite delicious.
Last Updated: December 3, 2011 2:00am
'Saints Row' a great 'GTA' parody
When Grand Theft Auto III almost single-handedly created open-world, action-adventure genre a decade ago, gamers were immediately hooked. Not so much by the storyline or its mute protagonist, but by the insane and unpredictable things they could do in the sprawling virtual metropolis of Liberty City.
Last Updated: December 3, 2011 2:00am
Get your indie gaming groove on
Leading up to the release of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3, game publisher Activision commissioned a slick, clever commercial starring Sam Worthington (Avatar) as a grizzled soldier showing fresh-faced Jonah Hill (Superbad) the ropes on the battlefield.
Last Updated: November 26, 2011 2:00am
'Halo' remake a nostalgic treat
Video game publishers will never stop cashing in on our profound sense of nostalgia, whether it's by repackaging ancient Atari games for the iPhone crowd or doing prettied up re-releases of everything from Zelda to Metal Gear.
Last Updated: November 26, 2011 2:00am
A year for threequels
Fortune comes in threes, a wise person once said -- or maybe I just got that from a Massive Attack song. But another wise person said bad things always happen in threes. Oh wise people, why you gotta be so contradictory?
Last Updated: November 19, 2011 2:00am
'Assassin's Creed' good, but lacks freshness
If beer pitchman The Most Interesting Man in the World donned a cowl and cloak, strapped on a pair of hidden wrist blades and assassinated his way across the 16th-century Ottoman Empire, you'd have a rough approximation of the latest chapter in the ever-expanding Assassin's Creed series. "I don't always stab people, but when I do, I prefer to stab
Last Updated: November 19, 2011 2:00am
Battling in multiplayer mode
Blockbuster first-person shooter video game season is upon us, and as you read this, millions of players are logged into Call of Duty and Battlefield servers, slapping C4 charges on mobile command units, racking up killstreaks and appealing to friends, through tinny headsets, to "watch your six."
Last Updated: November 16, 2011 12:55pm
Keen gamers' brains may reward them more
Teenagers who spend a lot of time on video games have different structures and activity levels in areas of the brain that are linked to reward, scientists have found, suggesting they get more out of gaming than people who tend to play less.
Last Updated: November 6, 2011 12:00am
'Skyrim' takes players on epic journey
You won't be hearing much from me this week, because I'm on vacation. California? Mexico? The Dominican Republic? Oh please. I'm visiting someplace very cold and desolate. Violent death lurks around every corner. And there be dragons.
Last Updated: November 6, 2011 12:00am
Kinder games that are no less enjoyable
There has been a common theme running through a lot of the games I've been yapping about lately here: They all seem to involve beating, shooting, stabbing, chopping, chainsawing or otherwise maiming lots and lots of people.
Last Updated: November 2, 2011 4:13pm
'Angry Birds' tops 500 million downloads
Mobile gaming firm Rovio said on Wednesday its hit game Angry Birds had reached a record 500 million downloads in less than two years since its launch.
Last Updated: October 29, 2011 2:00am
'Uncharted 3' entertaining, but a little formulaic
If there's one thing most Star Wars fans can agree upon -- other than that George Lucas violated our memories of the original trilogy by way of an emo Anakin and jibbering Jar-Jar -- it's that The Empire Strikes Back was a better film than the original Star Wars itself.
Last Updated: October 29, 2011 2:00am
Top 5 scariest games
The real world is full of scary things. Terrorism, corporate greed, violence against innocents, spiders, ex-girlfriends (note: does not apply to wonderful, benevolent exes who may be reading this), circus clowns and bar toilets after 1 a.m., to name but a few.
Last Updated: October 22, 2011 2:00am
Batman better than ever
In the very early going of Batman: Arkham City, when billionaire playboy Bruce Wayne first dons his iconic cape and cowl, a notification pops up on the screen signifying that the player has unlocked the "I'm Batman" milestone, the first of dozens of in-game achievements.
Last Updated: October 22, 2011 2:00am
'Binding of Isaac' a religious 'Zelda'
Late October marks the beginning of the pre-holidays game flood, during which one big-budget blockbuster after another begins landing in stores, and we start to wish we'd been born with three heads, six arms and a hundred or so thumbs.
Last Updated: October 15, 2011 2:00am
'Forza' for car and game lovers
I don't "get" opera. It's a grand, traditional art form full of sweeping drama and heartfelt emotion and passionate characters, but I'm just not terribly interested in it.
Last Updated: October 15, 2011 2:00am
Not a great year for superhero games
The summer of 2011 has been like Kryptonite to superhero video games.