One of the things about the Playstation 3 that drives me absolutely nuts is how Sony designed the charging of controllers. The console must be on, the USB cable that Sony provides for charging the controller is barely two feet long, and you can’t simply replace the batteries in the ...

This past week in Las Vegas, the annual Gran Turismo awards were held, recognizing excellence in automotive customization. The awards, which are held in conjunction with the automotive industry’s Specialty Equipment Market Association (SEMA) convention, annually invite petrolheads to submit their custom car for judging and potential inclusion in the Gran ...

Test driving three difference dancing games, on three different consoles, with the whole family.

After you’ve found the final treasure with Nathan Drake, helped Solid Snake sneak past the last enemy soldier, or zapped another gang member with Cole MacGrath, you may have felt an emotional bond with these characters that you’ve controlled for countless hours. It makes sense, you’ve spent a lot of time with ...

Family Gamer TV is the bi-weekly GeekDad video show that talks video-games from a family perspective. This is the third episode in the show that tracks the gaming journey of new and experienced families. Having been on something of a roll with the 360, we changed things up this week for ...

Whenever you get gamers talking about PlayStation 2 games, sooner or later the games Ico and Shadow of the Colossus come up, and with good reason. These two games were the antithesis of the big titles of their times. Both dealt with very human issues in their plot lines and ...

With a game set deep in the reaches of outer space, on a remote outpost where rough men toil at the impossibly hard work, mining the planet, Sony has, quite possibly, struck it rich. Last week, Sony gathered members of the gaming press to introduce the heir to the Warhawk ...

When we showed up at PAX East a few weeks ago, the size of the exhibition hall was somewhat intimidating. I’m guessing that the Boston Convention and Exhibition Center has ample room to house several clone armies, thousands of battle droids and still have enough room left over for a ...

It’s hard to believe that, in a month full of big blockbuster games like Bulletstorm and Dragon Age II, a game about Russian nesting dolls interrupted my schedule and kept me enchanted enough to beat it to 100% completion. In Stacking, a game designed by the legendary Tim Schafer and released by Double ...

Andy wrote up a great review of Killzone 3 for the PS3 last week. This is the sort of game that doesn’t typically make it into our house. My daughter has no use for the FPS genre and the general rule for my sub-10 year old boys is no shooting ...