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Is The PS Vita A Device Ahead Of Its Time Or Behind It?

With its big, bright screen, ability to sense touch and motion, and controls that mimic a home video game’s, Sony’s Playstation Vita delivers the sort of gaming that approaches what you might expect to experience in your den. But is that what gamers still want?


Video Games Could Kill The TV Star

As game consoles become more like cable television boxes, maybe it’s time for video games to start becoming more like cable television shows.


For The Right Price These Gamers Will Die For You

This story starts, as so many great ones do, with a classified ad: “I will take bullets for you,” it read.


It’s Time For A War Game That Respects The Geneva Conventions

Despite its inherent brutality, war has rules. Laws of war have been around in one form or another since biblical times. They govern the treatment of prisoners of war, the expediency of death on a battlefield. Could they, should they also pertain to the depiction of virtual war in video games?


These Are A Few Of My Favourite Games

With the Christmas holidays rounding the bend and the big shopping season about to kick off, now’s a great time to start thinking about what to buy that gamer in your life, be they casual, hardcore or even a once-a-year player.


Getting Fit The Skyrim Way

A new fitness program that asks gamers to earn time gaming by exercising is targeting fans of one of the biggest releases of the year.


Video Game Company Wants To Turn Virtual War Into Our Next Pastime

Baseball, hockey, football… Call of Duty? If the people behind Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 have their way, the next big sport people around the world will be obsessing over will involve virtual soldiers killing each other in perpetual warfare.


Microsoft Moves Kinect Towards Business And Science

While conceived as a device meant to expand the reach of Microsoft’s Xbox 360 gaming platform by allowing people to play video games without the need for controllers, the Kinect has always been destined for a broader future.


Pinball Teeters On The Brink Of Obsolescence And A Resurgence

Pinball played right is an act of violence. Violence against that steel ball trying to slip past your paddles. Violence against gravity urging that escape along. Violence against the glass top that contains everything happening within and violence against the wooden casket packed with hundreds of moving parts, lights and noise.


Your Cable Box Is Dying. Long Live The Game Console!

Your cable box is headed for obsolescence. It may not be within the next year, but it could be within the next three that having a box dedicated to TV programming sitting under or next to your television will no longer be the norm.


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