Original Guitar Hero Publisher Shut Down by Activision

It's moves like these that have put Activision on so many gamers' "hate" lists. Red Octane created the current generation of rhythm video games and it's sad that Activision has sliced their team up. Let's hope the individual team members are able to take it as an opportunity to branch out and do even bigger and [...]

Xbox Engineering Team Shares Tips & Tricks for the Xbox 360 Netflix App

Here's a great behind-the-scenes technical look at the Netflix application built on Microsoft's Xbox 360 gaming platform. The site this article is on — HackingNetflix.com is great BTW.

Xbox Engineering Team Shares Tips & Tricks for the Xbox 360 [...]

Netflix Streaming Heading to Nintendo Wii

So this is old news from earlier in the week, but thought I'd post it for others who hadn't read yet. It seems another device in many living rooms will be added to the growing list of Netflix streaming capable devices. This time, it's the Nintendo Wii — this Spring. Like the Sony Playstation 3, the [...]

Tuper Tario Tros

Combine Super Mario Bros. with Tetris and this is what you get. Interesting.

You can switch back and forth between the games at will via the spacebar. Kinda fun and funny.

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Rock Band 3: Where Do We Go From Here?

All of this articles' suggestions are great for where the original full-band series needs to take it. New music isn't enough for a sequel anymore. I really hope Harmonix is thinking along the same lines as the IGN author, or they are after seeing this piece.

Rock Band 3: Where Do We Go [...]

Guitar Hero: Van Halen Faceplate Coming Right Before Christmas

So I'm excited over a thin piece of plastic. No surprises to anyone who knows me. This one I knew was coming — just surprised it took so freaking long. I got an email today about pre-ordering Guitar Hero: Van Halen, though any self-respecting fanboy of either/or Van Halen and the Guitar Hero/Rock Band rhythm game [...]

DHTML Lemmings

Remember the old game — old like on a single floppy disk (3.5" or 5.25") Lemmings? It's a simple puzzle game where you assign actions to individuals to make it from the entrance to the exit. This is the precursor to puzzle games like The Lost Vikings, another favorite on the PC, and later on the [...]

Back to the Future Delorean Crysis Mod

Never have played Crysis. I don't have a PC that has anywhere near the hardware specifications needed to make the game roar to life. But the Back to the Future fanboy in me is just drooling over this BTTF Delorean mod to the game. The details are great. The interior looks good. It disappears at 88 [...]

They Don't Make 'Em Like They Used To: Retro Gaming

So tonight, I was playing the orginal Legend of Zelda from the old NES days. The Nintendo Wii's virtual console allows you to buy games from their old consoles including, but not limited to NES and SNES titles.

We've only endulged in two retro games thus far: the original Zelda and Super Mario Brothers 3. Between the [...]

7 Achievements That Will Make You Cry

A few years back, Microsoft made it a requirement for all of its Xbox 360's games to have a set of achievements — a list of goals and tasks in-game to strive to complete, rewarding usually only with bragging rights points, also known as your gamerscore. Sony later copied this concept, calling them awards, I believe. [...]