Fatherhood changes a man, which explains why Twitter oracle Kanye West took a charmingly domestic turn tonight, warning parents everywhere of the dangers that stupid little iPad games present when placed in the hands of children: Those stubby little fingers will click on those colorful in-app purchase buttons, racking…
At the summer Consumer Electronics Show in 1991, Sony announced that it was jumping into the video game hardware market for the first time, partnering with Nintendo to release something called a “PlayStation.” The device never made it to market—for reasons I’ll explain shortly—but someone on reddit may have come…
Here are a few computer games that were marketed to girls in the 90s and early 2000s: Barbie as Princess Bride, in which the titular doll sits around “waiting for her future husband to come home” according to one reviewer; Fisher Price Dream Dollhouse, a game about a dollhouse; and Chop Suey, featuring snake charmers…
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The developer of Glorious Leader!, a retro video game starring North Korean despot Kim Jong-un as a heavily armed, unicorn-riding superhero, is stoically moving forward with his game in spite of the explosion of unpaid publicity it's gained from the Sony Pictures hack.
Super Smash Bros. was just released for WiiU yesterday, but this kitten already knows how to hesitantly touch its little paw to the screen every so often.
It was this 6-month-old baby's dream to pilot a robot from the '90s video game franchise MechWarrior for his first Halloween—just kidding. Baby don't care. He's just enjoying the view while he fulfills the destiny his father set out for him before his birth.
Anita Sarkeesian, feminist video game critic and person Gamergaters insist Gamergate is definitely not about (even though they've repeatedly threatened her with death and rape), appeared on the Colbert Report last night.
Mike Tyson, of Mike Tyson's Punch-Out, was one of the most fearsome Nintendo bosses of any '80s kid's childhood. He hit extremely hard, and it was hard to hit him back. So it's understandable that the real Mike Tyson might be a little nervous to face himself in his 8-bit prime.
Until recently, you might have lived a life blissfully unaware of the online #Gamergate movement. But last week, computing giant Intel pulled its ads from an independent game-development site thanks to the gaming lobby. Now that major companies are taking sides, it's time to figure it out. Let us be your guides.
Jimmy Fallon got to live the (1997 version of the) dream on his show last night, playing the classic Nintendo 64 shooter GoldenEye 007 with James Bond in GoldenEye himself, Pierce Brosnan.
BioShock Infinite creator Ken Levine describes the game as a Rorshach test. What you make of Columbia—a sort of alternate-history America with more flying islands and killer George Washington robots—probably says more about you than it does about BioShock Infinite. Do you read the imagery as patriotism or propaganda?
AT&T Stadium, home of the Dallas Cowboys, is also the home of a 72-foot-high by 160-foot-wide, 1.2 million-pound big screen, one of the largest Diamond Visions in the world. Conan O'Brien decided to put that massive display to its best possible use: playing video games.
Ostensibly concerned that terrorists would disguise themselves as gamers in order to secretly communicate, agents from the NSA, CIA, Pentagon and Britain's GCHQ have posed undercover in online realms like World of Warcraft, Second Life, and Xbox Live. In fact, the practice grew so popular with the spy agencies that…
Merry Christmas. Or not. Whatever winter holiday you celebrate, you probably do it by substituting love and kindness with cheap plastic garbage wrapped in pretty paper. And if you're like us, you find it distracting to put too much thought into what to buy your loved ones. Each year we try to solve that problem by…
Grand Theft Auto V—the year's most anticipated, and most controversial, video game—is such a huge hit it "could be a nontrivial contributor to the U.S. gross domestic product." But it's a huge hit in part because parents are buying it for kids too young to understand—as one video-game clerk explains.
Here's a quick list of what players can expect, according to the Entertainment Software Rating Board, from the year's most anticipated video game:
An eight-year-old shot and killed his elderly caregiver after playing Grand Theft Auto, according to police in Slaughter, Louisiana. The child shot the elderly woman in the head in a mobile home while she was watching television.
It starts with a simple question: "Why do black people always choose Luigi?"
A Florida dad decided to give his son a 13th birthday to remember, so he rented out all of Jacksonville's historic Sun-Ray Cinema and told Jonah to invite some friends to play video games on a really big screen.
