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ossuary: I was just thinking the opposite... That Hollywood could learn a few things from the game industry: storyline, pacing, "acting", you name it. Many o... more »
Segador: Necessity is the mother of invention, and of innovation. As long as the game industry can continue to make increased revenue from multi-platform licen... more »
Xagest: Theoretically possible with some games. Most games these days are built on the Unreal 3 Engine, which means all it really takes to port is running it... more »
Canoehead: At least it would make sense to get the Wii and DS, and PS3 and PSP versions bundled. more »
blash: Forget DS - bundle in the PC version. It would deal some serious damage to Steam if not outright kill it. more »
Lizard_King: When movies or music is the focus, it seems fairly easy to want to switch formats. Including a DVD version and a download version with a Bluray is goo... more »
Monty: Your points are good ones, Mark, however there is a key point you may be missing. The movie industry wants people to buy the latest and greatest (not... more »
OCEntertainment: What the f-....Mark! What are you trying to do here?! If games became common amongst all platforms, then you'd take away a major pillar of the consol... more »
nutbastard: i'd kill for ps3/xbox cross compatibility. after being burned by MS with shitty hardware, i went running into the arms of Sony, who has held me ginger... more »
BergenCountyJC can't beat MW2: To Game Industry: Not that big of a deal. -Jobs more »

#editorial

What the Game Industry Could Learn from the Film Industry
I've got the Monsters, Inc. Blu-ray in my hand. But it's more than just a Blu-ray. It's a BD for my PS3, a DVD for my bedroom and a digital copy for my laptop. More »
#ps3

Strap On a Projector and a PS3, Then Game Anywhere
Theoretically, if you were to strap a PS3 Slim, projector and substantial weight in batteries to your body, you could play games on a big screen anywhere. Well in practice, someone actually did that: More »
#roundups

This Week's Gaming Stories, Dating Sim Gone Wrong Edition
This is a Real Girlfriend. She's supposed to be attractive, sexy even. But running on a PC that can't handle the rendering, things go a bit Terminator 2. Other great gaming stories from this week: More »
#review

Astro A40 Chat Headset Review
The Astro A40 is the premier chat-ready 5.1 surround sound gaming headset on the market, compatible with Xbox 360, PS3 and PC. But unlike the Turtle Beach X41, it's wired. More »
#gaming

5 Games That Play Nicely on Netbooks
Liliputing put together a list of 5 decent, recent PC games that play smoothly on netbooks. Also, we would add the classic Half Life to their list, along with Diablo 2 (obv). Your recommendations? [Liliputing]
#police

Teenager Calls 911 After Parents Confiscate His Xbox
Seriously, 911 operators sure deal with some crap. A 15 year old boy from Buffalo Grove (outside Chicago) asked police on Sunday if his parents had the right to take away his Xbox. They stopped by to set things straight. More »
#videogames

Guy Marries Video Game, We Don't Judge
That Nene Anegasaki, she's a charmer. She's also a video game character from extreme dating sim Love Plus, now wedded to a flesh and blood gamer. More »
#giftguide

Gifts For People Too Busy Playing Video Games to Appreciate Them
Most serious gamers might seem easy to buy for at first: games! But they probably are buying most games they really want right when they're released. So you've got to be a bit more creative than that. More »
#blackfriday

Meijer Black Friday Ad Brings on the Cheap Crap
Thank you Meijer, for aiming low this Black Friday. Our readers may/may not want a Sylvania 1080P 42-inch TV or Blu-ray player, but they'll be on sale for $499 and $89, respectively. Plus, $9 Blu-ray movies and cheap video games! More »
#aimeemullins

Normal Was Never Cool: Inception of Perception
Last year I met a beautiful five-year-old child, who had been born with neurofibramatosis (NF), causing her left leg to have extremely brittle bones. More »
#roundups

This Week's Gaming Stories You Cannot Miss
Look, it's the box art from Star Trek Online (along with new screens and impressions)! Also read on for the latest infotainment regarding Diablo III, a Diablo clone, the Avatar game and, of course, Modern Warfare 2. More »
#nintendo

Handmade Portable Gamecube Sports Dangerous Buzz Saw Disc Drive
Imagine if you'd spent the last 90 hours of TV watching doing something more productive. Could you have built this lovable-but-treacherous portable Gamecube? (Probably not, so don't quit your current "hobby.") More »
#imagecache

The Rubik's Cube's Secret Life as an 8-Bit Work of Art
First, the venerable Rubik's Cube recreated the masterworks of Da Vinci. Today's example, while not quite as grandiose, is still impressive. Ladies and Gents, the Space Invaders are here. More »
#xbox360

New Xbox 360 Warranty Stickers Better Guarantee Chastity?
Apparently, Microsoft is slapping a new style of void-if-removed warranty stickers on Xbox 360s that are sent in for repair. Why? With no facts to back us up, we must call upon our favorite pastime: crazy-eyed speculation. More »
#imagecache

Words Cannot Explain This Strange Japanese Video Mashup, But They'll Try
In the clip you're about to see, Vladimir Putin and Kim Jong-il lock lips to the theme song of an erotic video game. That's sort of the punchline. Here's how we got there: More »
#art

Projectors Morph Boring Building Into Giant Pinball Machine
Urban Screen, the same group behind insane 555 Kubik illusion, built a humongous, functioning pinball machine through facade projection way back in 2007. Why more architecture isn't decorated with multi-story video games, we do not know. [Urban Screen via MAKE]
#wii

Whole Baby Wiimote Peripheral Confirms I'm Trapped in Bizarro World
I'd suspected so for years, but this baby doll Wiimote add-on proves beyond a shadow of a doubt that something is just not right with this Earth. More »
#design

I Don't Care If It Could Disappear, I Want This Tetris Chair
At first I thought that Gabriel Cañas was nuts for designing a chair that's missing a corner, but then I realized the man is just preventing a full line from forming and the chair's bottom disappearing in true Tetris fashion. More »
#sega

Sega Genesis and Saturn Lighters, Or Why Sonic No Longer Runs 5Ks
It's easy to think, hey, America and Japan aren't so different! Then Sega licenses fantastic, official Genesis/Saturn lighters ($114). And I can't even begin to imagine the Truth campaign that would stem from the controversy here. [Net-you via Kotaku]
#polk

Polk HitMaster "Monitor" Means Inexplicable Faux Instrument Arms Race Actually Exists
The disdain I harbored for that ridiculous Altec Lansing Guitar Hero "stage monitor" was fading this morning, but news from Polk that they, too, would be entering the world of fake music accessories revived those feelings anew. More »
#roundups

This Week's Gaming Stories You Cannot Miss
Whoa whoa whoa. Wait a second. Since when does Batman dress up in a cookies and cream batsuit? Unless he's chasing the Joker through a Nabisco factory, this ensemble simply cannot work. More »
#xbox

Oil-Cooled Xbox Hints at How Microsoft Should Have Engineered the 360
Taking a cue from classic PC modding, one gamer dunked his original Xbox in a fishtank full of mineral oil (minus the DVD/hard drives). And it runs 10 degrees cooler than before! More »
#xbox

Microsoft Soft-Launching Xbox Live Rewards Program
Kotaku reports that a number of their readers have received invites to an "exclusive pilot rewards program" for Xbox Live. More »
#crime

Postal Service Mail Handler Steals 2,200 GameFly Rentals
Both GameFly and Netflix package their by-mail rentals in bright, obvious envelopes, and a Philadelphia mail handler took advantage, stealing 2,200 GameFly games in just six months. When he was caught, he had 81 games on him. 81! More »
#roundups

This Week's Gaming Stories You Cannot Miss
Mass Effect 2 has a release date. Tim Schafer's rock masterpiece Brutal Legend is out, right along with Uncharted 2—one of the best PS3 titles to date. If Man's existence gets any better than this, we're missing something critical. More »
#iphone

Side-by-side: The Same Game on the iPhone vs iPhone 3GS
On the left, the iPhone. On the right, the iPhone 3GS. Iron Fist Boxing 3 shows us a graphical divide we can expect only to grow as more games push the iPhone 3GS hardware to its limits. More »
#xbox360

Rumor: ATI Locked in for Next-Gen Xbox Graphics?
Nothing is official, but Fudzilla's sources suggest Microsoft liked the Xbox 360's Xenos graphics enough to stay with ATI for its next console, possibly slated for 2012. Given the lead-time, it may even be a 28-nanometer chip. [Fudzilla via CrunchGear]
#gaming

If a Sega Saturn Joystick Could Transform, It Would Become This
If the AllSpark came in to contact with a vintage Sega Saturn joystick, chances are that PlayStation owners everywhere would be consumed by this vengeful robo-insect. More »
#nintendo

The NES Guitar that Redefined the Genre
The console guitars are nothing new to the internet, but an NES guitar of this caliber—one in which even the headstock has been replaced with a cartridge&mdah;is a rarity indeed. Hit 2:20 for the demo. [TechEBlog via GadgetReview]
#ps3

Seriously...Someone Is Really About to Release a PS3 Wiimote?
Even with Sony's own motion controller on its way, Blaze will be releasing a "Wii style" remote for the PS3, the Blaze PS3 Motion Freedom 3D Controller. More »
#mods

Yet Another PSPGo Mod Blinds You With LEDs
Seriously, what is wrong with the PSPGo? Is the handheld so ho-hum that people are purposefully modding it into awful things, or is it just a really hard device to work with? More »
#roundups

This Week's Gaming Stories You Cannot Miss
There were many, many interesting stories happening in the world of video games this week. From Wolverine claws appearing on PlayStation Home to these gross-looking beasts from the latest Final Fantasy, there's a lot to see over at Kotaku. More »
#health

Electrical Shocks to the Brain Slow Down Gamers, May Speed Up Parkinson's Patients
Researchers somehow found volunteers to willing accept electrical shocks while playing video games. Ooook. The study's mostly good news though: Small zaps to the brain might help Parkinson's patients. The bad news? They'd turn us into bad video game players. More »
#gaming

Blue Blood 360 Controller Modkit Looks Surprisingly Tasteful
For $30, console mod company XCM will sell you this Blue Blood Xbox 360 controller kit. It includes a new blue shell and D-pad along with a series of glowing LED buttons. Can techno-kitsch be beautiful? Apparently. [TotalConsole via technabob]
#pspgo

Simple PSPGo Mod Hides High Price, Screen Behind Blindingly Bright Bank of LEDs
One intrepid PSPGo owner—no doubt frustrated, like Mark was, with the portable's strange pricing structure and continued lack of dual thumb sticks—has attempted to spruce it up with a bit of color. More »
#photoshopcontest

34 Portable Gaming Devices That Aren't So Portable
For this week's Photoshop Contest, I asked you to invent some completely unportable portable gaming devices in honor of the PSPgo. As usual, your minds are more demented than I'd even imagined. More »
#mame

The Dr. Frankenstein MAME Cabinet
I do not know what Frankenstein has to do with arcade cabinets, nor do I care. Because this Frankenstein MAME cabinet reaches basement gaming nirvana. More »
#gaming

Xbox 360 Holiday Bundles Keep Elite at $300, Jack Controllers to $60
Two new Xbox-360-related bundles are arriving for the upcoming holidays. And while the Elite will continue going for $300, the Xbox 360 controller bundle balloons the peripheral to $60. More »
#imagecache

A Gameboy Reveals its Inner Beauty
This is nothing more than a beautiful shot of a Gameboy without the case. Inhale it like roses or whip cream gas, then move along with your day. [flickr via BBG]
#reviews

PSPgo Review: PSP Goes Nowhere You Haven't Been
Four years ago I got married to the most wonderful woman in the world. The evening before the wedding she knocked on my hotel room door and handed me a surprise wrapped package. It was the original PSP. More »

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