Trouble Town

The Wii Virtual Console travels back in time this week to a time when a much softer Square made games that were…

Ralph Baer is widely acknowledged to be the "father of video games", thanks to his work in the 1960's pioneering the…

Arcade games may have been a source of great joy and entertainment for millions across the world in the 1980s, but…

George "Geohot" Hotz wanted to crack the PS3—so he did, and infuriated Sony. He's become a target, globetrotter, and …

WiiWare really heats up in this week's Nintendo Download with Cozy Fire, a fireplace simulator with six - count 'em…

Long hours, hard work, crap weather. Then there's the boredom, the long hours of boredom, followed by the bursts of…

How would Tim write a Super Mario novel? Who is the David Mamet of video games? Why are gamers so inarticulate? What…

While Facebook might be all the rage in the West, in Japan, it's all Mobage-Town. The service is attracting big…

The soundtrack for the original Donkey Kong Country is so enchanting that the president of Nintendo listens to it…

My first, perhaps my only visit to Cuba came last week in a video game that asked me to kill the man responsible…