Sony PlayStation

Phoenix Rapper MegaRan Creates 8-Bit Hip-Hop

Shock Rockers

Subway's Two New Subs Trying Super Hard Not to Taste New

​Usually when a fast-food chain introduces a new item to its menu, there's something about it to set it apart from the rest: crazy-big, premium ingredients, Double Down disgusting-ness, you get the picture. Too bad about Subway's newest menu additions -- the Steak & Cheese (on the right) and ... More >>

DJ Kris the Fist Talks KRS-One, Hanny's, Noob DJs, Lil John, Common, and Urinal Deuces

DJ Kris the Fist​Name: Kristian Herrera AKA: Kris the Fist Genres spun: Hip-hop, dancehall, and dubstep. Current club nights: I was a regular at the Hidden House for the last two years, but for the last few months I've been at Hanny's on Fridays and Saturdays for the first couple hours they're ... More >>

Devastation 2009: Street Fighter IV Attracts the Country's Top Fighters

Jonathan McNamaraDevastation players Nicholas Cucio (left) and Brian Valez. Valez runs Street Fighter tournaments at his Las Vegas-based game store "Game Over" and came out to support some of his hometown players at Devastation. Determined to grasp victory, two warriors step onto an airfield unconce ... More >>

All-Star Schedule

Jonathan McNamaraDevastation players Nicholas Cucio (left) and Brian Valez. Valez runs Street Fighter tournaments at his Las Vegas-based game store "Game Over" and came out to support some of his hometown players at Devastation. Determined to grasp victory, two warriors step onto an airfield unconce ... More >>

Top Ten Video Games You Should Be Listening To

In honor of Music Editor Martin Cizmar's look at video game-inspired music this week, we've taken the time to assemble this list of video games you should be listening to. That's right, listening. Play them all you want, but we're betting that your memories of laying waste to the final boss will fad ... More >>

Meet JerkRag, the Valley’s Rock Band band

In honor of Music Editor Martin Cizmar's look at video game-inspired music this week, we've taken the time to assemble this list of video games you should be listening to. That's right, listening. Play them all you want, but we're betting that your memories of laying waste to the final boss will fad ... More >>

One mom's struggle to keep her son alive in the state's care highlights the challenges of supporting the developmentally disabled

In honor of Music Editor Martin Cizmar's look at video game-inspired music this week, we've taken the time to assemble this list of video games you should be listening to. That's right, listening. Play them all you want, but we're betting that your memories of laying waste to the final boss will fad ... More >>

The Guitar Hero frenzy careens toward overkill

In honor of Music Editor Martin Cizmar's look at video game-inspired music this week, we've taken the time to assemble this list of video games you should be listening to. That's right, listening. Play them all you want, but we're betting that your memories of laying waste to the final boss will fad ... More >>

Will Guitar Hero save the music industry?

In honor of Music Editor Martin Cizmar's look at video game-inspired music this week, we've taken the time to assemble this list of video games you should be listening to. That's right, listening. Play them all you want, but we're betting that your memories of laying waste to the final boss will fad ... More >>

Xmas Present & Past

How yesterday's games spawned today's bestsellers

Bob Shaye´s New Line

Movie mogul taps into his inner child

Arrested Development

Heard about the 29-year-old sex offender who posed as a seventh-grader? Here's how the sordid case was broken

Hands Off

Final Fantasy XII: Role-playing on autopilot

Coming Zune

Microsoft shoots at the Apple again

Glacial Profiling

Slow-paced Valkyrie Profile offers dull apocalypse

Slithering Heights

The year's most shameless B-movie delivers exactly what it promises

Vince Charming

Vaughn ensures it's amicable

Abort

Running the franchise into the ground

Ghouls on the Go

Remake captures all the creepy fun of the original

X-Man Reunited

There's nothing rusty about Mega Man X's old-school 'bots

Generation Next

Microsoft's Xbox 360 fires the first shot in the next-gen console war

So Young

Thanks to a bright invention, Valley favorite Jerry Riopelle is finally on the verge of becoming cool

This Game Bites

The new Castlevania is the last nail in the franchise's coffin

For the Record

Tracks in Wax branches out

Flying Solo

Falling in love with the GameBoy all over again

Shoot 'Em Up

Tabb pulls the trigger on some new video games

Kid Sharpton

Jarret Maupin is the reverend Al's handpicked protégé. Is Phoenix City Hall ready?

This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

Jarret Maupin is the reverend Al's handpicked protégé. Is Phoenix City Hall ready?

Cage Death Match

Pyramid scheme

Hex on Us

Lost youth found again at HexaCon 14

Size Matters

T-Rex is large and in charge

Original Soul

This time, it's personal: Our look back at an intimate year in music.

Aesop's Riddles

The indie hip-hop legend of Aesop Rock grows as his rhymes become more mystifying

A Fan's Notes

Ideas that were forgotten but not gone in 2003

Young Love

Valley bar performers pool resources for a night to worship Neil Young – without blaspheming his music

Boyz Band

Don't hate them because they're buff and rich. B2K is okay.

B-Boy Wonder

Megadef is the smack-talking, beat-juggling wild child of an embattled DJ scene

Retro Grading

Trying to remember the best in a forgettable year of film

Small World

Radio Disney feeds the new pop underground with music for tweens

Evil Empire

A self-proclaimed 'God of Video Games' with a real-life god complex is determined to rule gamers, girls and the world.

Bad Aim

At the Gates, a gripping showdown is bungled by a love triangle

Naked Sitting

'Annie Leibovitz's Nudes' uncovers new territory

Hot Wheels

Or: How Tony Hawk turned skateboarding into a multimillion-dollar international obsession

Fatman and slobbin'

DC Comics places its superheroes in the RealWorlds

The Teen Commandments

Why Hollywood's high on children of the multiplex