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Readers may recall when toy stores used to sell ten-in-one game collections; a single box that would include diversions such as chess, checkers, chutes and ladders, and backgammon. Overall, the collections were cheaply constructed with ...

                                                      Old-school product placement for De Beers. There are certain games that really stand out in the childhood of a gamer. The original Mega Man ...

                                                                     Locked, loaded, and ready for fragging. Anyone who has ever attended a LAN party knows it’s impossible to stow a full-sized keyboard ...

                                                 Think your neighbors are loud? Try moving to Chernobyl. The more obscure and complicated areas of science will always be a wondrous playground for those who ...

Here at Tech-Gaming, we purchased two of the early gaming chairs that appeared on the shelves at local retailers a few years ago. Although those chairs were light and relatively inexpensive, they were also small ...

While at E3 in 2006, I spoke to a number of journalists who raved about Monster Hunter; Capcom’s RPG that had an enormous amount of depth for the patient fan. They had sunk hours into ...

When even the software-starved PSP gets three new titles, you know we have officially entered the season of gaming. This week features a number of games with great concepts, but less than ideal executions. Take ...

During last July’s Electronic Extertainment Expo, I witnessed a young men dressed as Final Fantasy VII villain Sephiroth. Within a few steps on entering the convention center, he was accosted, and quickly escorted out the ...

Veni, Vidi, Vici. More specifically, we came, we played, we were disappointed. With a tragically scant number of unreleased, major games on display (Tom Clancy’s EndWar and Far Cry 2 being the exceptions), E for ...

Typically, most of us play games recreationally. For some, an hour fragging opponents in Call of Duty 4 might be the perfect catharsis after a punishing day at the office. Therefore, one of the great ...