Toy retailer Toys “R” Us has introduced a program to accept video game trade-ins at its nearly 600 stores nationwide, in exchange for credit used toward other merchandise.

The program started this weekend and is similar to ones at box retailers GameStop and…

Candystand.com and Facebook have become gaming partners. Now, it’s possible for friends on one site to meet and play games at another.

The free-to-play game and entertainment provider has added Facebook Connect, a sign-on service allowing Facebook users to enter affiliated websites…

New games have been announced for the lineup at this year’s World Cyber Games, scheduled for Nov. 11-15 in Chengdu, China.

WCG spokesmen say “FIFA 09,” “TrackMania Nations Forever,” “Carom3D” and “Red Stone” are joining the list with “Counter-Strike,” “Starcraft: Brood…

Silly Game Guy.

When he bought the iPhone, the purchase was essential: His last phone died after a long fall from a short dock. So, the first priority after watching his lifeline disappear in a stream of bubbles was re-establishing a…

Not a good medium for playing games.

In all the time Game Guy has tinkered with tech, he never shied from a challenge. He embraced iPod when many thought it odd; he warmed to Wii when its potential was difficult to…

Barring 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…

Who’d have thought that the game of chess and hip-hop music are in tune with each other?

A story Monday on NPR’s “All Things Considered” explains the nature of this fascinating relationship …

Gaming is not yet a sanctioned Olympic event, but it nonetheless will be featured at the Beijing Summer Games in August.

The Global Gaming League says it has inked a deal with Olympics organizers to make video games the featured attraction in…

“Monopoly” is going digital.

Game publisher Electronic Arts says it will help develop digital versions of popular Hasbro board games such as the famous New Jersey-based “Monopoly” and release a few of them later this year for gaming consoles as well as mobile phones.

The…

Ever wondered why the game “Donkey Kong” featured a monkey?

Or whether Saddam Hussein tried pooling PlayStation 2s to create a “supercomputer”?

And how about that tale from way back about Atari uncermoniously dumping unsold video games in the New Mexico desert?

Those…