I’m thinking about the challenges faced by previous generations of parents. I’m thinking about parents that had to cope with the arrival of Rock ‘n’ Roll or the Sexual Revolution; parents that had to send their kids off to the factory or the draft. I’m thinking about these parents as I ...

I remember playing Asteroids on an Atari 2600, my family’s first gaming system. (Well, if you don’t count the Colecovision.) I remember both of my parents played Asteroids, but my dad especially. You were a triangular ship, or at least as close to a triangle as the Atari was capable ...

In Centipede: Infestation players take on the role of Max, the hero and bug slayer, who must defend Maisy, a girl whose gardens bring life back to the wasteland. Squash giant mutated centipedes, spiders, beetles, grubs, caterpillars, moths, and more. Lay waste to these mutated bugs with weapons such as ...

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

Well, at least one world is ending in 2012, it seems: the Lego Universe will be shutting down on January 31, 2012. According to their press release, the MMO was well-received and got a lot of good feedback, but there simply weren’t enough paying customers to keep it going. The Lego ...

The first thing that caught my attention was the title: All Your Base Are Belong to Us. In big, bold, pixellated letters, this book was shouting in code: “Hey, geeks! Over here!” Up close, I could see the subtitle: How Fifty Years of Videogames Conquered Pop Culture. Although the title ...

In Skylanders Spyro’s Adventure, you can ‘Bring Your Toys to Life’ in a boldly innovative adventure game where players collect real-world interaction figures and teleport them directly into the game using a mystical Portal of Power™. Propelled by a story-driven adventure, penned by Academy Award-nominated Toy Story feature film writers, ...

I was fortunate to have the rare chance to pose some tough question’s to Ubisoft about Assassin’s Creed Revelations. I spoke to the Art, Game Design, Transmedia Production and Scriptwriting teams. They shared their thoughts on the background history, the narrative design, the community collaboration and more on this ...

The original portable Tetris game was a smash hit on the Game Boy system. The new Tetris: Axis game lets players use the magic of the Nintendo 3DS system to jump into the action in 3D without the need for special glasses. The game includes more than 20 different modes ...

Kirby: Mass Attack is a single player Side-Scrolling, Real-Time Strategy game for Nintendo DS that features both new adventure, and a new gameplay mechanic uniquely suited to the Nintendo DS. Gameplay includes the ability and necessity of controlling multiple versions of Kirby simultaneously in order to defeat enemies, solve puzzles ...