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Phoenix Rapper MegaRan Creates 8-Bit Hip-Hop

Five Killer Bands Inspired By Video Games

In this week's olde-timey paper edition we told you all about local rapper MegaRan, who delivers slick rhymes and rapid-fire lyrics inspired (mostly) by classic video games like Mega Man 2 and Final Fantasy VII, and is appearing live at Martini Ranch tomorrow night. We also mentioned a couple of o ... More >>

If Video Game Characters Became Rock Stars...

Brütal Legend, a 2009 video game released by Electronic Arts, featured voice work by Jack Black, Lemmy Kilmister, Rob Halford, Ozzy Osbourne and Lita Ford and a soundtrack of more than 100 hard rock and metal songs.​Over the past three decades, two institutions have constantly remained near-unive ... More >>

Game Daze

Bookmans hosts Call of Duty death match

7 Video Game Predictions for 2010 and Beyond

What happened to this, Square-Enix? ​ As we near the end of the aughts, most of the bright minds in gaming are focusing on what was. They're all over the best games of 2009 and the best games of the decade. Well that's fine, but we're looking forward. Whether Uncharted 2 was the best game of t ... 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 >>

Z-Trip To Star in Upcoming DJ Hero Video Game

Z-Trip: Coming soon to your Xbox 360 or PlayStation 3. We're willing to bet there are a slew of local DJs out there wishing they could be Z-Trip, which shouldn't come as a surprise. Given the former P-Town resident's masterful mixing skills and stellar career path, many spinsters would sell their e ... More >>

Joystick Division

Get your game on downtown

Minibosses, The Advantage, and sBACH Prove Video Game-Influenced Music Isn't Just Playing Around

Gotta Catch ‘Em All: The Link Between OCD and Video Games

Castle Crashers on Xbox 360 saves video games with arcade action and explosive diarrhea

Order Up! serves a helping of casual dining to the Wii’s casual gaming experience

Rock This Way

Dream a little dream via video-game vicariousness

Video games as Olympic sport? Not this year, pal

E3 revelations are hit and miss – unless you really dig chopping wood

Space Invaders Extreme brings gaming back to its arcade roots on the Nintendo DS

Alone in the Dark is scary for all the wrong reasons

DIY game design hits your Wii with Blast Works

Zap! Vintage Video Games

Castle of Shikigami III tests the bounds of Wii loyalty

Spielberg enters gaming with Boom Blox

Mario Kart Wii is nothing you haven’t seen, but so what?

The House of the Dead 2 & 3 Return for Wii resurrects the classic shooter, but where are the new Wii games?

Smash Bros. Brawl and the biggest game tournament ever

Fans of Nintendo's popular fighting series waited for hours to get this game

Joystick it to ’Em

Prizefighters scrap for a spot in the brawl of fame

Over the weekend

All the gigs, parties and events you may have missed

Will Guitar Hero save the music industry?

Keep Dreaming

NiGHTS' second coming feels more like a first draft

Gaming's Greatest Hits

A look back at the best of 2007

Bang Bang for Your Buck

It's five great games for $60, so shoot first and ask questions later

Hype Machine

Does Halo 3 live up to its billing?

Joysticks to the World

Gaming geek demos his latest creation . . . for the Atari 2600

Star Dreck

Alien Syndrome will alienate some, infect others

All Class

The Wii's Big Brain Academy makes summer school cool

It Takes a Village

The terrorizing townsfolk of Resident Evil 4 shamble onto the Wii

Three's a Charm

A promising glimpse of the next Halo

No Replay for Wii Play

There's not much besides an extra controller to these minigames

Channel Surfing

There's more than one way to play with your Wii

Wii Love It

Nintendo finally gets 1-Up on the competition

Copycat Killer

Saints Row shamelessly apes Grand Theft Auto

Next Big Things

The five biggest attention-getters at E3

Sonic Bust

Sega's Hedgehog goes back to the grind . . . yawn.

Back to the Future

A high-tech twist on the old-fashioned coin-op

X-Man Reunited

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

Enter the Dragon

Dragon Quest VIII is the biggest thing from Japan since Godzilla

Generation Next

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

They've Got Game

Barbarians, brain-eaters, and beagles round out the best of 2005

Near Perfect

Not a bull's-eye, but it hits the target

Shoot 'em Up

Tabb takes aim at new video games