Video Games
-
Video game review: 'Star Ocean' never achieves liftoffJul 10, 2016 7:27 am - What would you expect from a role-playing game called "Star Ocean"? Interstellar exploration? Thrilling outer space combat? Encounters with weird aliens from across the ...
-
Lego 'Force Awakens' has just enough comedy to get you byJul 03, 2016 6:00 am - At this point, most sane humans have had enough of “Star Wars: The Force Awakens” but big corporations like Lego and Warner Bros. think you want more BB-8, Rey and the w...
-
Wii tournament at Gurnee library July 9Jun 30, 2016 1:00 am - The Warren-Newport Public Library in Gurnee will host a Wii tournament for young video game players from 1:30 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. Saturday, July 9. The Super Smash Bros. W...
-
Clash of Clans may spur Tencent's Marvel-like aspirations
Jun 25, 2016 7:17 am - Clash of Clans could be the type of tent-pole entertainment that helps Asia's biggest internet company build a Marvel-like universe of movies, comic books, online videos...
-
Are you still a VR skeptic? So is Nintendo.
-
'The Sims' removes gender barriers in video game
Jun 02, 2016 7:00 am - LOS ANGELES (AP) - The creators of "The Sims" are opening up gender customization options for the first time in the history of the popular life simulation video game. "T...
-
Review: Philly rebels after North Korea invades 'Homefront'May 31, 2016 6:00 am - Americans are worried about a lot of things: jobs, health care, climate change, terrorism, too many guns, not enough guns. But hey, at least we haven't been invaded by N...
-
After Gamergate, female video game developers on the riseMay 31, 2016 6:00 am - PHILADELPHIA - Students from an all-female arts college in Philadelphia attended a conference for video game developers last year and, without even trying, they stood ou...
-
'Overwatch' game developers find creativity in diversityMay 23, 2016 6:00 am - IRVINE, Calif. - When the makers of the globe-hopping video game "Overwatch" were coming up with the back story for a character with the ability to freeze enemies and er...
-
Review: A new 'Doom' is both cursed and blessed by nostalgiaMay 21, 2016 7:25 am - Before there was "Halo" or "Call of Duty," the first-person shooter video games "Wolfenstein" and "Doom" defined the trigger-happy genre in three dimensions. While the f...