Artist Luke Jerram wants to build a 300-foot-long slip-and-slide right down the middle of a street in Bristol, England. That is God's work you are doing, Luke. » 3/16/14 11:00pm 3/16/14 11:00pm

BlazBlue, the popular fighting game series by Arc System Works, is coming to the stage as Live Act BlazBlue ~Continuum Shift~. » 1/24/14 6:00am 1/24/14 6:00am

Four games in four weeks — Sony's dropped the release schedule and games coming in its summer 2013 PlayStation Network PLAY promotion: Stealth Inc.: A Clone In The Dark (July 26), Cloudberry Kingdom (July 30), the delightful ibb & obb (above, August 6) and DuckTales Remastered (August 13). Check out pricing and more… » 7/15/13 11:30am 7/15/13 11:30am

Sixty-six years ago today the Roswell, New Mexico Daily Record stunned the country with one of the finest examples of a sensationalist headline this side of... well, nevermind that. "RAAF Captures Flying Saucer On Ranch In Roswell Region," was a joke, a sham, a goof, and certainly not proof of aliens landing on U.S.… » 7/08/13 8:30pm 7/08/13 8:30pm

GeoGuessr, as you might have guessr'd from the name, is a straightforward game. » 5/16/13 8:00pm 5/16/13 8:00pm

Originally, the Wikipad—an Android tablet with a custom controller dock—was supposed to come out last Halloween. But October 31st came and went with no Wikipads in any store anywhere. But the hybrid portable is alive and will be showing up in a smaller, less expensive form this spring. » 2/07/13 10:40am 2/07/13 10:40am

Are you an iPhone gamer? Android fan? Windows Phone addict? Xperia loyalist? While the mobile phone gaming industry has settled into a set of easily manageable platforms over the past few years, there's still plenty of choice. Which have you chosen? » 10/11/12 12:55pm 10/11/12 12:55pm

Take the bubble-bursting puzzle gameplay of the popular Bust-a-Move series, turn it on its side and toss in some magical spells and memory matching puzzles and sharp cartoon visuals and you've got Supermagical, an award-winning iOS game from Super Awesome Hyper Dimensional Mega Team, a developer with an obvious… » 9/10/12 11:30am 9/10/12 11:30am

It's a shooter that doesn't let you shoot. A puzzle game without any blocks. It's Split! » 6/20/12 11:15am 6/20/12 11:15am

A single button push takes a Portal 2 » 5/15/12 12:00pm 5/15/12 12:00pm

Danish company Monstrum may sound terrifying, but they do amazing work, building children's playgrounds across Europe that look more like fantasy arenas than the dirty old contraptions most of us grew up with. » 5/01/12 3:00am 5/01/12 3:00am

In a weird, oxymoron twist of a story, two loving Angry Birds » 4/09/12 12:00pm 4/09/12 12:00pm

Remember the days when the only on-phone gaming option was that weird snake one where the little pixel ate the other pixels and got increasingly longer until it ran into itself and died? Well, the Sony Ericsson Xperia™ PLAY, which combines a PlayStation®-certified gaming device with the capabilities and portability… » 12/21/11 11:59am 12/21/11 11:59am

Like a flaming crossbow bolt casually launched at gigantic rooftop slogan, Sony celebrity spokesmodel Kevin Butler returns to launch the "Long Live Play" marketing campaign. » 8/30/11 12:20pm 8/30/11 12:20pm

Fan films, like this Portal one, are impressive and all, but stage renditions are more impressive. » 5/31/11 7:30am 5/31/11 7:30am

Playboy's Jo Garcia is a big gamer. Ultimate Fighting Championship octagon girl Brittney Palmer is a big button masher. Together, they go boob-to-boob knuckle-to-knuckle in Mortal Kombat. » 4/19/11 4:15am 4/19/11 4:15am

Kyoto's Q-Games, the studio behind PixelJunk and a whole host of wonderful titles, is auctioning off a signed ThinkGeek t-shirt for "Play for Japan". The whole PixelJunk staff autographed the shirt! » 4/04/11 7:40am 4/04/11 7:40am

Almost one out of every ten artifacts unearthed from the ruins of the ancient city of Mohenjo-daro in present-day Pakistan were play related. Have archaeologists been underestimating the social significance of play and games? » 2/09/11 2:00pm 2/09/11 2:00pm

It's nice to know I wasn't the only one blown away by Wired Magazine on the iPad. John Abell, New York bureau chief of Conde Naste, notes on Twitter that 24,000 copies of the e-mag were sold in the first 24 hours. Check it out, you deserve it. » 5/28/10 9:45am 5/28/10 9:45am

Reader Geist002 took the time to check out a school play about video game addiction in East Brunswick, New Jersey. » 4/22/10 9:00pm 4/22/10 9:00pm