Pixel Flexing!

There’s something missing from today’s video games, and that something is most certainly a conga-line of oiled-down, bikini-strapped Adonises crashing through walls like rippled, performance-enhanced Kool-Aid Men. Oh yeaaaaaaaaaaaah!

It’s an Intergalactic Slobberknocker!

It’s been over three decades since we’ve learned that screams are inaudible within the confines of space, and more than 20 years since the eventual Governator discovered that a nice mudbath would protect you from a Predator. In Sega/...

Video Games For Valentines Day

The Sims 3

Morgan Webb’s Video Game Wish List

Tonight, television’s longest-running video-game show airs its landmark 1,000th episode with hosts Morgan Webb and Adam Sessler looking back at X-Play’s greatest moments. To mark the occasion, we caught up with Morgan for her most...

Fire, Freaks and Field Goals

Tune into next Sunday’s Super Bowl and you’re guaranteed some expensive ads, a mind-numbingly uncool halftime show, asinine color commentary and dudes patting other dudes’ butts. What you won’t see—unless the Saints can conjure up some of...

Dark Void: 8-Bit Resurrection!

Yesterday Capcom released its jetpack-strapped shooter Dark Void on PC and consoles, with the former rocking new-fangled NVIDIA PhysX and APEX technologies that deliver mind-meltlingly absurd graphics. Hey, that’s pretty cool…if decent...

War as it oughta be . . .

As any gamer worth their thumb blisters knows, today marks the debut of Darksiders, THQ/Vigil Games’ new adventure title where players take on the role of War (one of the infamous Horsemen of the Apocalypse) in a quest through a hellish...

World of Barcraft!

Remember that time in elementary school when you found a bunch of mushrooms in a plastic baggie in your older brother’s room and you downed them, thinking they’d make you grow like Mario? Man, that didn’t go like you’d expected. Things...

Palm Your Old NES!

Portable gaming devices like the Sony PSP and the Nintendo DS are so smug, what with their “tiny” game cartridges that fit “conveniently” into the consoles. Trust us, you want none of that. No, no, you’d much rather have the Retro Mini X...

One Screen Saver to Rule Them All

As unlikely as it may sound to you now, a day will come when you inevitably grow bored of your dangerously cute screen saver showing kittens dressed in formal wear. When it does, rest assured that you can continue to combat burn-in with...