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09.02.2008 9:36 pm

World Cyber Games retools website

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

World Cyber Games logoIt’s cleaner, more engaging. Best of all, it has a shorter name.

The website belonging to the World Cyber Games has undergone some serious tweaking, so that now it’s easier to read and doesn’t take so long to load.

That last…

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08.27.2008 10:16 am

So-called video game degrees can waste time, money

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Take a close look at that video game development course before signing up. It may be just a waste of time.

So suggests experts who make video games for a living and field thousands of queries from people who want…

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08.19.2008 12:59 pm

Game Guy is rested and ready

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Game Guy returns from his break with a confession to make: He wasn’t spending all this time just playing games.

Far from it. After all, all work and no play makes GG a dull guy (well, duller than normal, anyway).…

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07.27.2008 11:07 pm

Games don’t cause nightmares? Ha!

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Scary face iconIt sounds authoritative enough: A recent study in Germany claims no link exists between video games and nightmares.

But come on, who (or, for you purists, whom) are we kidding?

The research comes out of the Central Institute of Mental Health in…

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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 ……

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07.19.2008 10:50 pm

The disappointment of sequels

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

After Game Guy railed in this space against the proliferation of game sequels, and was vilified for doing so, this showed up online.

GG agrees with 1UP’s assessment, but wishes the list wasn’t so short. In our view, at least 100…

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07.16.2008 9:56 pm

Movies, games vie for attention on consoles

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Xbox 360 will stream Netflix content. PlayStation 3 has its own video store.

Now, video games have some competition on the gaming consoles themselves.

The move to movies for both consoles, announced this week, probably isn’t much of a surprise to…

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06.13.2008 12:07 pm

Gaming will boom as the economy swoons

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

While the nation sinks into economic recession, video game sales just keep booming.

And while that statement resembles a non sequitur, the reason for gaming’s great time in the face of despair is fairly obvious, at least to Game Guy.…

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06.10.2008 10:29 am

World of World of Warcraft

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Thank you, “The Onion,” for keepin’ it real:

“Warcraft” Sequel Lets Gamers Play a Character Playing “Warcraft”

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