04.20.2009 10:51 am
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
amers have taken a lot of body blows over time — attacks on their maturity, their character, their looks — because people have problems believing that anyone who plays video games can be a serious-thinking person at the same time.
It’s…
04.05.2009 5:06 pm
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
So, what’s next for computer-based gaming? Is it dying like newspapers, as some think? Or is there more to the medium than most people grasp?
A growing contingent of console lovers think the industry may shift away from it entirely, driven…
04.05.2009 1:39 pm
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
In Game Guy’s office are four Nintendo DSes — three Lites of various colors and an original model from 2004. In his hands at home today, however, is the new DSi — the “i” is supposed to mean “individual,” or…
04.03.2009 7:45 am
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Another notable name is set to join the gaming fray. Check out details of the new EVO Smart Console built on a Linux platform and just now hitting the market. Preorders will be accepted starting April 10, though with a price…
02.22.2009 11:59 pm
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
furlough [fur-loh] n. — a usually temporary layoff from work
Sometimes the business of journalism is just that, business.
At Game Guy HQ, managed by the Post-Dispatch and its parent company, Lee Enterprises, business is coming before pleasure for the game players around…
11.10.2008 3:01 pm
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
America woke up with a party hangover last Wednesday that it still doesn’t want to shake. The night before, we did something that many people thought impossible as late as that afternoon: We chose a honest to goodness African-American man…
07.23.2008 9:59 am
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
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…
07.12.2008 12:10 am
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Perhaps you’re looking at the future of hands-on gaming.
It’s called Darwin, and it’s a motion-sensitive game controller rumored to work with Microsoft’s Xbox 360, and maybe Sony’s PlayStation 3. Manufacturer Motus Games unveiled the two-part device Friday, after months of speculation over…
06.30.2008 11:54 pm
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Gamers, get used to Microsoft Vista, whether you like it or not. Today, Microsoft just kicked its predecessor, Windows XP, out the door.
That means no new computers will be sold at major retailers with XP preinstalled. To get it, you’ll…