Super Mario Bros on an 8×8 LED matrix from Chloe Fan on Vimeo.

Only a few hours ago Sony announced the PlayStation Move…its motion-sensitive controller that is supposed to be a hyper-sensitive version of Nintendo Wii’s WiiMote. We snickered a little at last year’s E3 at the first announcement of this direction for the PS3, not because of the idea, but of the silly-looking controller with the ping-pong [...]

A Battle Star Galactica online game is being produced for a fall 2010 release date.

What can we say?  Since WOW proved it is the one MMORPG to rule them all, every other online RPG has become an after-thought.
But this game will be both web browser based, and free of charge, so it may stand a [...]

It looks like Portal 2 is finally officially coming.  The folks at GameInformer are spilling the beans in their April issue

Not like we didn’t think this was coming, and we have no ETA, but it is still nice to know that Valve is working on it.  But given that we are still waiting for Half [...]

Wired’s interview with Nintendo’s Cammie Dunaway has raised eyebrows on the Internet, as Dunaway admits expectations for Wii sales in 2010 will be lower than 2009.
Why is this surprising? I would think eyebrows would be raised is she predicted them to go up. Wii is in its 4th year of sales, and at $199, it [...]

I hope our resident ex-junkie appreciates what he has gotten out of.

Check out this excellent presentation by Jesse Schell at the DICE Summit
It’s long, but a very interesting look at games, convergence, technology, realism in entertainment, and the future where life itself is a game.

DS Games – E3 2010 – Guitar Hero 5

I haven’t played D&D since the early 80s (when it was cool, right?) but I could really see a resurgence with the interactive pieces and dice, etc. the Microsoft Surface and other similar interactive  tablets/tables might offer. This article describes one such interaction, and it is even more interesting that it is a student project and not [...]