Video Games

McKinney's Newtoy Now "Zynga With Friends"

​Two months ago, Zynga, makers of FarmVille and Mafia Wars, snapped up Dallas-based Bonfire Studios -- one of many such acquisitions in recent months. This morning it held a telephone press conference to announce it's bought yet another locally based game-maker: Paul and David Bettner's Newtoy, ot ... More >>

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Game Boy

8-Bit Symphony

Let's Play A Game

Blast Works Makes Blowing Stuff Up DIY-friendly

Over at SMU at This Very Moment, They're Playing Guitar Hero -- For Work

Castle of Shikigami III tests the bounds of Wii loyalty

Steven Spielberg goes direct-to-video-game with Boom Blox for the Wii.

There's More of the Same in Mario Kart Wii, and That Just Might Be Plenty

Undead on Arrival

House of the Dead returns for the Wii, stiff as ever.

Cyber Sketchy: Or, Three Weeks Later, Still No Comment from Gaming League

Paging Freaks

Guinness writes the book on gaming, but doesn't shatter any records

Kelly Law-Yone is Queen of Fake Rock

Guitar Hero Breeds a New Kind of Bar Band

Videogamers are living out rock and roll fantasies on screens at your local pub

Guitar Hero III Battle? OK, We're In

Multiple Players

Enjoy the sounds of geeking out

Keep Dreaming

NiGHTS' second coming feels more like a first draft

Gaming's Greatest Hits

A look back at the best of 2007

Will Rock Band and Guitar Hero Save Us?

Are rocker videogames the new MTV—and will they help us save the music universe?

Bang Bang for Your Buck

It's five great games for $60 — shoot first and ask questions later.

Hype Machine

Does Halo 3 live up to its billing?

Wii Can't We All Get Along?

Star Dreck

Alien Syndrome will alienate some, infect others

All Class

The Wii's Big Brain Academy makes summer school cool

Carpal Tunnel City

Gamers go for the gold at the Gaylord

It Takes a Village

The terrorizing townsfolk of Resident Evil 4 shamble onto the Wii.

Bored Games

All the beer in the world can't save Mario Party 8

Three's a Charm

A promising glimpse of the next Halo

No Replay for Wii Play

There's not much besides an extra controller to these minigames

Channel Surfing

There's more than one way to play with your Wii

Wii Love It

Nintendo finally gets 1-Up on the competition.

Didn't You Used to Be a Guitar Hero?

Copycat Killer

Saints Row shamelessly apes Grand Theft Auto.

Next Big Things

The five biggest attention-getters at E3.

Taking Up Collection

Play It, Sister

Even girls like to blow things up real good--in videogames, that is

Back to the Future

The Xbox Live Arcade is a high-tech twist on the old-fashioned coin-op.

X-Man Reunited

There's nothing rusty about Mega Man X's old-school 'bots.

Lights, Camera, Play!

They're not exactly Pixar, but a crew of Highland Park teens find fame--not fortune--making machinima movies on the Xbox

Enter the Dragon

Dragon Quest VIII is the biggest thing from Japan since Godzilla.

They've Got Game

Barbarians, brain-eaters and beagles round out the best of 2005 in consoles

Near Perfect

Perfect Dark Zero isn't a bull's-eye, but it hits the target.

Have Gun, Will Travel

How far can a video-game champ go? Ask Matt Leto.

Pull the Plug

Our intrepid correspondent gets punked like a girly man on the video gridiron

Toy Soldiers

Computer game designers in Bedford re-create the greatest generation online

Men From g.o.d.

Why are these Dallas high-tech hotshots chucking the action, gore and riches of the computer gaming world to hawk a genteel digital magazine?

Game On

A frag fest in Deep Ellum

Game boy

Sure, Troy can throw a ball, but can he shoot an ion cannon?

Armchair Athletes Unite

Gamers give one for the thumb

Space Aliens are Breeding with Earth Women