According to a post on Maxconsole , a court in Paris has just dismissed a lawsuit filed by Nintendo over the use of flash carts on the DS. Apparently, the gamemaker was attempting to halt the use of the cartridges due to their ability to circumvent copy protection and allow for pirating of...
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It seems these days that many an iPhone app has had the life expectancy of a mayfly. Count among the departed iRwego!, formerly a $0.99 application that utilized the iPhone’s accelerometer to dive into a sound-filled world of Nintendo’s Mario. iRwego! — say it like Mario to understand why it’s so cute —...
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The star of many a board game night, Settlers of Catan is a series to which I am deeply devoted. And like many a magnificent obsession, Settlers is expensive.
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Supposed “mind reading” video game controllers are as old as home consoles. Take the Atari Mindlink, an unreleased controller for the Atari 2600 originally slated for 1984. It promised the ability to completely eliminate the hardware between your gaming and your mind: just think of making Pac-Man gobble that power pellet and your...
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For the major part of the last two years, Nintendo’s Wii console looked like an unstoppable juggernaut in the gladiatorial arena of the next-generation console wars. The Wii has sold millions upon millions of units, not just to gamers, but to gamers’ grandmothers. The intutive Wiimote control scheme and accessible games like Wii...
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Those of you who have never lived in the British Isles can’t really lay claim to having experienced it, but public television sucks. I don’t mean PBS. I don’t mean Sesame Street or 3-2-1 Contact. I mean public television: the idea that the government directly taxes you for merely owning a television set....
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Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2’s arrival was more than just a videogame release. It was practically a force of nature unleashed on the Xbox 360, PS3 and PC. It has gotten endless amounts of press over the past year and is amassing millions of hours of playtime. Every detail of the game...
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Oh, Puzzle Quest. What you’ve given me. Before, I labored my way through the days. I played RPGs like Final Fantasy
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EA and BioWare have made a big mistake with the Collector’s Edition of Dragon Age: Origins on PS3. Gamers who paid the extra $15 for the CE expected to get the soundtrack of the game included in the purchase. Indeed, the MP3 files were included, but they were shipped on a Blu-ray disc....
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Gadget and game lovers all, every once of us is interested in seeing whether or not our latest handheld devices — our phones, our portable media players, even our digicameras — are capable of delivering retro gaming fun through the glory of console emulation. In fact, as soon as a new phone or...
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