Power Balls

Welcome to Better Know An Umpire, an effort to educate ourselves on the human elements—deliberately programmed into…

UC Berkeley student Derek Low is a master of science and technology. Here he uses his vast powers to create a dorm…

Take the addictive bubble-popping gameplay of Bust-a-Move, toss in the enticing random chance of Peggle, and you've…

People have been asking what I've been doing recently.

T.J. Brida usually shows up 15 minutes ahead of his shift. This day, he was thinking he'd be late. He pulled on his…

The coolest feature of the upcoming 3DS game Mario Tennis Open is the ability to play the original Super Mario…

The first Angry Birds slipped onto the iPhone with little fanfare, slowly growing into one of the biggest games of…

I've played video games as 7-foot-centers and hulking first basemen, I've probably pitched to or hit against the…

In all my 38-plus years on this great spinning dirt ball of ours I've never once heard a person exclaim, "Hooray,…

How much to we value weirdness? How much weight do we place on eccentricity? There are so many video games that are…