It's NHL playoff season, but, even through two nail-biting scoreless periods of Saturday's Rangers/Devils game, my head hasn't exactly been in the game. It's also been in my Nintendo 3DS.

Incantor, a smartphone-based augmented reality game currently in the works by developer MoveableCode, hopes to offer geeks like me a way to wizard-duel in the real world. With a Bluetooth-enabled wand and a smartphone app, I'll cast spells, battle my friends, and complete quests, all in my own backyard. It's ...

I've had a few people ask me for tips and tricks on getting through the Dragon's Peak adventure for Skylanders. My son and I just brute forced our way through the level, but there is a more elegant way. Robert from Coin-Op.tv has a great walk-through up on YouTube.

Best videos of the week from Digital Dads. Including Coldplay's beautiful cover of the Beastie Boys in memory of MCA. Related posts: Digital Dads Watch for February 24, 2012 Digital Dads Watch – April 6,2012...

I heard his voice as Trooper 4 while playing Halo: Reach. I've seen him as the charismatic host of Spike TV’s Video Game Awards in 2011. And my son and I are both huge fans of his tech-savvy super-agent character Chuck Bartowski from the NBC series Chuck. But I quickly ...

I was fortunate to be able to stretch my journalistic tentacles over to Radical Entertainment and ensnare the talented mind of Dave Fracchia, VP. of Technology at Radical Entertainment. If you're not a video game geek, Radical Entertainment is the developer of Prototype 2, the action-adventure sandbox game that we've ...

I got an e-mail last week advertising an app that billed itself as "a geo-social app that is quickly becoming the answer to our society’s FOMO (Fear Of Missing Out) problem." The way it works is that it constantly updates you on all the things going on nearby, even sending ...

This week I finally got an opportunity to sit down with Alex Thomas, Creative Director for The Banner Saga and discuss their outrageously successful Kickstarter campaign, the corporate game industry, Eyvind Earle, and storytelling in video games.

The breadth of performance specs on the Razer Tiamat 7.1 would make some high claims indeed. The headset is positioned by the manufacturer as the first true 7.1 surround sound headset. The circumaural Razer Tiamat 7.1 deploys ten individual drivers in its headphone unit that are configured to create what ...

It's been more than 20 years since a half-dozen friends and I played through an entire first-edition Shadowrun adventure in one awesome overnight session. And while the cyberpunk-meets-magic-and-fantasy role-playing game created by Jordan Weisman back in 1989 has evolved through several pencil-and-paper editions and video game adaptations in the years ...