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more about #videogames more comments → technocoy: Dude, You just cut the A40s short on so many levels. I generally love your reviews, but this was quite frankly completely shit. I'm going to give yo... more » BombrMan: I have had my A40's since last christmas and they are invaluable to me. I have my 360 and my PC close enough together to hook up the 360 by optical an... more » anexanhume: Another option is seeking out Tritton's lineup. As soon as my adapter dongle gets here, I'm getting the AX 720s for 119.99 at best buy. more » Odin: Nethack. more » Purple Dave: If you can find copies anymore, there's always Yoda Stories and Indiana Jones' Desktop Adventures for some solitaire-intensity adventure gaming. more » dantheman12: remeber to use gma-booster, its an app that supports most integrated graphics cards in netbooks, and makes games run smoother. [www.gmabooster.com] more » Marcem: I would suggest one called Blockland. It's a lego based sandbox game on the Torque Game Engine. It can be found on Blockland.us, and costs 19.95. more » HeartBurnKid: Agent of R.O.A.C.H.: There's a ton of great indie games that would run fine on netbooks. My personal recommendations would be Audiosurf, World of Goo, and Darwinia. more » uRbAnlP: I've got Kawaks, Project64, Znes as emulators and they all work great. CS 1.6, Swat3 and D2. more » Whitson Gordon: Morrowind would definitely run pretty well, and if you've never played it before, certain aspects of it might still blow your mind (like how incredibl... more » :negated:: Fallout 1 and 2, C&C Red Alert, Icewind Dale, and Baldur's Gate play like a dream on tablets. more » Yerzriknot: Quake III arena ftw! more » Slugicide: Looking at the comments so far, I have to ask: What kind of moron puts Windows on a netbook? *sigh* You can lead a horse to water, but you can't make ... more » thechansen: I completely forgot about Sins of a Solar Empire. The game is best played with a friend or friends, and I've had matches online that lasted days if n... more » tikibomb: Simcity 4 deluxe works great. Hoping to get some Civ action going soon. 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 » -
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#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 »
