Gaming

Play It Again, Sony

PUBLISHED Feb 19, 2007

We’re hardly in overtime, but with 106 million PS2s out on the field, all-time champ Sony shouldn’t be in the same league as Microsoft and...

Antichrist PC Star

Even For Christians, The End Is Near

PUBLISHED Feb 15, 2007

Maybe it’s that never-ending war in the Middle East or perhaps the approaching Mayan doomsday (Mel Gibson seems to be promoting both), but...

The Gaming Arts

Art of the Game

PUBLISHED Sep 1, 2006

As the current-gen rolls into the next, the aging Playstation 2 is the unlikely home to one of gaming’s most visually stunning efforts — an...

United Wii Stand

Nintendo Emphasises Play Over Display

PUBLISHED Jul 1, 2006

Not long ago it looked like Nintendo might go the way of Atari or ColecoVision — cultural relics to be fondly nostalgised on hipster t-shir...

Tomb Raider

Pixel Chicks

PUBLISHED May 1, 2006

A decade after Lara Croft busted her way into pop culture, and many a teenage boy’s dirty dreams, the Tomb Raider archaeologist with dispro...

Music Gadgets

The Dance Dance Revolution Will Be Televised

PUBLISHED Mar 1, 2006

In the early 1980s, the streets of New York were covered in cardboard as a burgeoning b-boy scene attracted crowds marvelling at their grav...

Next Boxes and Instant Replays

PUBLISHED Dec 1, 2005

Gaming history has been marked almost as much by hardware as software. Now five years after the Playstation 2 ushered in the current-gen co...

Can You Play It?

The Warriors Joins a New Era of Movie-Based Gaming

PUBLISHED Oct 1, 2005

Somewhere in the sands of New Mexico lies an unmarked grave holding millions of extra-terrestrials. No, not real aliens, but little plastic...