With its big, bright screen, ability to sense touch and motion, and controls that mimic a home game console's, Sony's Playstation Vita delivers the sort of gaming that approaches what you might expect to experience in your den. But is that what gamers still want?

As game consoles become more like cable television boxes, maybe it's time for video games to start becoming more like cable television shows.

This story starts, as so many great ones do, with a classified ad: "I will take bullets for you," it read.

Despite its inherent brutality, war has rules. Laws of war have been around in one form or another since Biblical times. They govern the treatment of prisoners of war, the expediency of death on a battlefield. Could they, should they also pertain to the depiction of virtual war in video games?

With the holidays rounding the bend and the big shopping season about to kick off, now's a great time to start thinking about what to buy that gamer in your life, be they casual, hardcore or even a once-a-year player.

A new fitness program that asks gamers to earn time gaming by exercising is targeting fans of one of the biggest releases of the year.

Baseball, hockey, football... Call of Duty?

While conceived as a device meant to expand the reach of Microsoft's Xbox 360 gaming platform by allowing people to play video games without the need for controllers, the Kinect has always been destined for a broader future.

Pinball played right is an act of violence.

The idea from the start was a game that blurred the lines between how games looked on console and PC.