Who says you need a big expensive gaming rig to play the latest video games? Onlive.com is taking pre-orders (Dec 2) for a virtual console that will allow gamers to play remotely on their internet-based (cloud) game servers. There will be 35 titles available at launch including: Borderlands Game of the Year Edition, ... [Read More]

"It's on like Donkey Kong" at the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. Nintendo wants to trademark the catchphrase "in honor" (read: publicity) of the newest game in the series: Donkey Kong Country Returns, where Donkey Kong will throw subpoenas instead of barrels. Just one problem, it's not their catchphrase. The earliest ... [Read More]

R.U.S.E. is a real-time strategy game that lets players trick their opponents with, you guessed it, ruses. But the real ruse is the game commercial, which looks nothing like actual gameplay, even the cutscenes don't look that good. Contrary to what the title and commercial lead you believe ruses aren't the crux of the ... [Read More]

Children can be cruel, especially to their toys. "These creatures cannot defend themselves. They cannot run away only escape. Insanity is there there only escape," explains Dr. Kindermann of The Asylum - Psychiatric Clinic for Abused Cuddly Toys (parapluesch.com). The German toymaker calls the toys therapeutic. "Children and ... [Read More]

The penultimate episode of Doctor Who: The Adventure Games takes place entirely inside the TARDIS, well except for a quick jaunt outside that leaves the Doctor floating in outer space and, for the first time in his life, at a loss for words. This results in a very humorous game of charades. All the objectives involve working ... [Read More]

Blood of the Cybermen is the second of four episode length games available for free from the BBC website (http://www.bbc.co.uk/doctorwho/dw/theadventuregames) if you live in the U.K. that is. For those of you who live across the pond, you'll need to use a proxy website to download the game, see my guide to the first game: ... [Read More]

The Science Channel's new series Through the Wormhole looks at life's big mysteries, and what bigger mystery is there than "Is There a Creator?" In this premiere episode, astronomer Rich Terrile takes intelligent design to a whole new level by suggesting that God is a programmer and we are the program. Quantum ... [Read More]