PC World - Game On

To paraphrase Stephen King, if you find you cannot horrify, you go for the gross-out. EA's third-person "survival horror" game Dead Space (for PC, Xbox 360, and PS3) frequently horrifies and grosses out. It's also ironically produced -- if...

The word on the street is that Apple's new high-end MacBook Pro is set to ship with an NVIDIA 9600M GT, arguably the most underwhelming GPU upgrade to Apple's "pro" part in years. Don't quote me on that, but...

I've yet to lay eyes on Warhammer Online's digitally grim "waagh-ness," and that's looking increasingly like a mistake. "Increasingly," because so many of you have. Laid eyes, that is. And fingers. And cannons, catapults, ballistas, rams, trebuchets, and Nurlge...

Compared to the PS3's snappy X-meets-Y Emmy award-winning "XrossMediaBar" interface, the 360's stylish whooshing tabs comprised of five horizontally swappable blades can seem sluggish and flabby. Wish Microsoft would just ditch the whole thing and start over? Wish no...

The idea Microsoft could somehow stave off the shift to optical-based high-def content by restricting its own solution to video downloads always seemed a little cuckoo, so today's not-surprise is that the Xbox 360 may finally be getting the...

Nintendo of America president Reggie Fils-Aime says digital downloads may complement the business model for its new storage-centric handheld DSi, but they won't overtake retail sales. That's a big fat "aww shucks" for those of you hoping not to...

Leave it to GamePolitics to tease (if not quite answer) that question by pulling together an ad hoc list of republican and democratic contributors that at first blush looks awfully Obama-friendly. Using publicly available records provided by Newsmeat ("America's...

In the second in a series entitled "The Future of Reading," New York Times critic Motoko Rich speculates about books pitched with video game tie-ins expressly in mind. Sound counterintuitive? Shouldn't that be the other way around? Yes, for...

Did you hear the one about the guy who once sold computer games in plastic Ziploc bags blasting off in a Russian spacecraft on October 12th for a multimillions orbital cruise? Game developer and NASA astronaut offspring Richard Garriott...

The preamble to Konami's survival horror game Silent Hill: Homecoming for Xbox 360 and PS3 is all swinging lights and latticed shadows, smeary blood splats and walls gone that peculiar glaucous color you find on the underside of unkept...

Nintendo's DS Lite games handheld is two years old, so how about a competitive refresh that comes equipped with dual-digital cameras, a music playback feature, and loses a few millimeters and grams off its edges? That's what Nintendo just...

Hot on the heals of news that Sony's been idea-shopping its so-called "PS4" to developers, the grapevine has it "from multiple sources" that Nintendo's started talking up its official successor to the Wii. What They Play "parents guide to...

So the Dow Jones pancaked yesterday, dropping a record 778 points, or just shy of 7 percent, while the NASDAQ composite index took an over 9 percent spill, down nearly 200 points, after the House scuttled a $700 billion...

It looks like Sony Computer Entertainment may have sent rough and definitely not ready PlayStation 3 specs to third-party developers to solicit feedback. According to Impress (links to Google translation from Japanese), preliminary ideas being kicked around for the...

According to British tabloid The Sun, nearly $1-point-1 million worth of PS3 games have been stolen, not once, but twice! The first time, cops in the UK spotted fake plates on a blue Renault lorry (a British term for...

Ever lost your video feed from your game system to your TV and been left puzzling over an error message like "out of range" without a clue what it means or how to fix it? I had this trouble...

While the economy's imploding around us like a balloon the feds keep inflating and shareholders keep skittishly needling, have a look at this survey by Weekly Reader Research listing what it claims "nearly all tweens and teens" are asking...

Rather predictably, video game publishers are clubbing the notion of recirculated games like sullen cavemen ejected from the municipal fireside powwow. The latest grumbler: Marty O'Donnell, Bungie's audio director, who says that smaller studios are in for bumpy financials...

Not that it's absolutely earth-shattering news given the lack of recent major PS3 releases, but the Xbox 360 managed to snub the PS3 for the second week in a row in Japan. If you missed my coverage of this...

By the time you read this, I'll be packed away like a sardine, or at least a sardine with blanket, pillow, eye mask, socks, and plastic-wrapped headphones on my jaunt across the pond to become a US-in-the-UK expat. My...