Video Games

Rock Band DLC Shuts Down: How A Geek Sport Briefly Became A Party Phenomenon

Rock Band is over. Well--kind of over. It's been "over" in the people-who-wouldn't-otherwise-touch-a-Playstation-caring-about-it sense since a few months after Beatles Rock Band came out, but now it's "over" inasmuch as after April 2, when "American Pie" will be released (nice timing), developer Har ... More >>

I’m INSIDE The Game!

Rage Against the Machinima

As YouTube becomes increasingly wealthy, its stars and the networks that contract with them battle for money and creative control.

Bonfire Goes Zynga, or: You Can't Keep a Local Gaming Company Down on the Farmville

​Hard to believe it's been almost two years since we posted that item about the two local companies to rise from the ashes of Ensemble Studios -- Robot Entertainment and Bonfire Studios, each consisting of ex-Microsofties scattered to the virtual winds after Ensemble's September '08 demise. Robot' ... More >>

The Gold Standard: Dallas Stargate, Millipede and Q-bert Champ Going Into Hall of Fame

SpyHunter007Back in 1982, Ben Gold was the greatest Stargate player of all time, setting the world record in Richardson.​Thanks to this brief heads-up on the NBC5 Web site, I just spent the last little while researching Ben Gold, the local man set to be inducted into the brand-spankin'-new Interna ... More >>

At Dallas Walmarts, No PC Game Left Behind

​First off: Happy birthday, Kirk Cameron. Hope you got something nice for your birthday -- maybe a copy of Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species? Or, perhaps, a video game based on a movie in which you appeared. How about ... let's see ... Left Behind: Tribulation Forces. I know where you can ... More >>

Fast and Furious should have gone straight to Xbox

Stephen Rippy Sets Halo Wars High Score

Happy Veterans’ Day!

Dirk Nowitzki Tunes Up for the Rock-ets

If Dirk Nowitzki Can Be A Guitar Hero, Well, Why Can't You?

All-Tell Attell

The snarky Comic returns to Big D

GameStop Makes a Fistful of Money, Then Watches Stock Plunge

W.T. White Stats Teacher to Talk Up Video Games and Kids on NPR

Guitar Hero and Rock Band Give New Meaning to "Rock and Roll Excess"

Nintendo's Wii Fit Ignites Yet Another Fitness Fad

GameStop Faces Its Future, and It Looks a Lot Like ... Mom

Don't Be a Spare

The Tipp goes Wii...bowling

Guitar Hero Will Save the Economy

Thinning Crowds

It's always dead at The Club

Shift Happens

Indy Legends brings Brickyard history to life.  

Xmas Present & Past

How yesterday's games spawned today's best-sellers.

Almost Famous

It's never been easier to start your own (fake) band.

Fun With Fluids

The Revolution will be televised — and plenty addictive too.

Playing Dumb

Jackass presents the world's biggest waste of time

Party Pooper

The Wii's latest pool game is a cue stick in the mud

Down in Flames

Lair's fire-breathing dragon is just a big turkey

Halo 3: Dallas Finishes the Fight

Elf Life

Shadowrun is fresh and exciting--and on its way to being obsolete

Balls of Fury

Marble Mania rolls out a winner for the Wii

Hot Mama

Cooking Mama for the Wii looks good enough to eat

For the Birds

Wing Island might make you cry fowl

That's One Halo a Book

Resistance Isn't Futile

It's just the only standout in an otherwise shameful launch

Hands Off

Final Fantasy XII: Role-playing on autopilot.

Latin Bummer

Just Cause features acres and acres of . . . foliage.

Time to (Not) Kill

Pong 360

Like the real thing, Table Tennis shouldn't be played alone

Mavs in Seven?

Local Hero?

Pretty Girls Make Saves

Indie rock teams up with a baseball videogame. Really.

Ghouls on the Go

A Resident Evil remake captures all the creepy fun of the original.

Tae Kwon Ho

Dead or Alive 4 finally gets hardcore.

Puppy Love

Nintendogs' charm will win over the most jaded of gamers.

Catch the Tree Wave

Old Ataris playing music? Singing with a dot-matrix printer? For this duo, it's all perfectly natural.

Playmakers

Want to design video games? SMU's Guildhall can show you how, if you're willing to work like a dog.

Tree Wave

March 17

Joystick Cinema

It's man vs. machinima when video games become, ahem, movies

Virtual legality

For an up-and-coming Dallas multimedia company with a hot lawyer game, life imitates CD-ROM