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06.02.2009 12:41 pm

Microsoft’s Project Natal will not succeed with Xbox 360

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

It was only a matter of time.

Microsoft finally acknowledges now that maybe Nintendo had a good idea with the concept of a motion-sensitive game controller. And of course, the Redmond, Wash.-based software and gaming giant paid homage in its own…

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05.16.2009 11:29 pm

Slimmer PS3: Fact or fiction?

St. Louis Post-Dispatch
PlayStation 3, in all its glorious bulk.

PlayStation 3, in all its glorious bulk.

Suspicion that Sony’s PlayStation 3 has been dipped in Slim-Fast grew this week when pictures of the alleged console redesign trickled onto the Internet.

The grainy images came from overseas and show a console that’s at…

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05.04.2009 6:32 pm

CrossFire might give Nintendo’s Wii real firepower

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

UPDATE: Penguin United forwarded this artist’s rendering (left) of the CrossFire Remote Pistol late Tuesday. Many thanks to the company for its prompt response.

Nintendo Wii’s motion-sensing capabilities give the console plenty of potential to be great for shooter titles, but so…

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04.13.2009 7:22 pm

Ringling Bros. is coming to Nintendo’s Wii, DS

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

The circus is coming to your Nintendo game console, perhaps by Christmas.

Take-Two Interactive and circus-show producer Feld Entertainment say they’re teaming up to produce circus-themed video games using the most famous name in the three-ring business: Ringling Bros. and Barnum &…

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03.31.2009 11:54 am

PlayStation 2 price cut could stunt gaming’s growth

St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Sony's 10-year-old PlayStation 2 might change our thinking about video games.

Sony's 10-year-old PlayStation 2 may change our thinking on video games.

Thanks to Sony, video gaming may have stopped evolving.

Today, the company announced it was dropping the price of its decade-old PlayStation 2 consoles to $99, plus sales tax, from $130. This…

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10.21.2008 7:30 am

Looks like E3 is coming back

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

We were on the edges of our collective seats here at Game Guy HQ wondering whether E3 had a future after its underwhelming impact this year. The once-awesome gaming trade show shrank to a shadow of its former self after restricting…

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07.23.2008 9:59 am

The one thing that could re-invigorate Xbox 360

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Xbox Live logoBarring all the bluster at E3 last week, saying Xbox 360 was “the king” of gaming, Microsoft’s game console faces real challenges.

The system still suffers from chronic red-ring-of-death breakdowns, Nintendo’s Wii supplanted it from the top spot on the best-selling-systems list … we…

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07.20.2008 11:46 pm

E3: Told you so

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

E3 iconThe crew at Game Guy HQ was not impressed with the potential for E3 delivering on big news or new insights this year — and was roundly criticized as a consequence.

Turns out we weren’t the only ones who were underwhelmed. One analyst called…

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07.13.2008 6:35 pm

Not much new expected from E3

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

No big game releases coming this week; no new hardware due out, either. Just promises and speculation.

This week, gamers everywhere put down their controllers for a few days to see what comes out E3, the annual big show for gaming…

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07.11.2008 12:27 am

Xbox 360 price cut confirmed

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Icon of Xbox 360 console and controllerWell, if it’s in The Wall Street Journal, it must be true: Micosoft’s Xbox 360 Pro game console will sell for $50 less, probably starting this weekend.

WSJ’s report, dated today, follows rampant speculation of the discount throughout the blogosphere in…

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