Subject: Video Games

• Blames, Trains and (Grand Theft) Automobiles

  April 26, 2007

• The latest games from Nintendo prepare to rock the holidays.

  October 13, 2008

• The New Face of Evil

  November 22, 2007

• Keep Dreaming

  NiGHTS' second coming feels more like a first draft.

  January 3, 2008

• Paging Freaks

  Guinness writes the book on gaming, but doesn't shatter any records.

  April 3, 2008

• Undead on Arrival

  House of the Dead returns for the Wii, stiff as ever.

  April 17, 2008

• Direct to Video Game

  The king of Hollywood takes on the small screen.

  May 22, 2008

• Empty Castle

  Castle of Shikigami III tests the bounds of Wii loyalty

  June 5, 2008

• Blast Works makes blowing stuff up DIY-friendly

  June 26, 2008

• Game On

  October 2, 2008

• Wii the People

  Video games have grown up. I haven’t.

  November 22, 2007

• Fun With Fluids

  The Revolution will be televised — and plenty addictive, too.

  November 1, 2007

• Hero We Go Again

  Fake-instrument overload offers plenty to fret about.

  June 12, 2008

• Still Lapping It Up

  There's more of the same in Mario Kart Wii, and that just might be plenty.

  May 8, 2008

• Xmas Present & Past

  How yesterday's games spawned today's bestsellers.

  December 20, 2007

• Gaming's Greatest Hits

  A look back at the best of 2007.

  December 27, 2007

• Big Bang for Your Buck

  It’s five great games for $60. Shoot first and ask questions later.

  October 25, 2007

• Hype Machine

  Does Halo 3 live up to its billing?

  October 11, 2007

• Bend It Like Bowser

  Soccer gets a surreal twist in Mario Strikers Charged.

  August 23, 2007

• Star Dreck

  Alien Syndrome will alienate some, infect others.

  August 9, 2007

• All Class

  The Wii's Big Brain Academy makes summer school cool.

  July 12, 2007

• Bored Games

  All the beer in the world can't save Mario Party 8.

  July 5, 2007

• Bored Games

  All the beer in the world can't save Mario Party 8.

  June 28, 2007

• Three's a Charm

  A promising glimpse of the next Halo.

  June 7, 2007

• Balls of Fury

  Marble Mania rolls out a winner for the Wii.

  May 17, 2007

• Hot Mama

  Cooking Mama for the Wii looks good enough to eat.

  April 19, 2007

• For the Birds

  Wing Island might make you cry fowl.

  April 5, 2007

• No Replay for Wii Play

  There's not much besides an extra controller to these mini-games.

  March 8, 2007

• Bus-ted

  Could an RTD ad for Grand Theft Auto drive kids crazy?

  March 8, 2007

• The Devil’s in the Details

  Turning LEGOs into a massively multi-player online game.

  March 8, 2007

• The Legend of Leeroy Jenkins

  March 8, 2007

• Channel Surfing

  There's more than one way to play with your Wii.

  February 22, 2007

• Resistance Isn't Futile

  It's just the only standout in an otherwise shameful launch.

  December 28, 2006

• Wii Love It

  Nintendo finally gets 1-Up on the competition.

  December 14, 2006

• Copycat Killer

  Saints Row shamelessly apes Grand Theft Auto.

  October 5, 2006

• Next Big Things

  The five biggest attention-getters at E3.

  May 25, 2006

• Back to the Future

  The Xbox Live Arcade is a high-tech twist on the old-fashioned coin-op.

  March 2, 2006

• X-Man Reunited

  There's nothing rusty about Mega Man X's old-school 'bots.

  February 9, 2006

• Enter the Dragon

  Dragon Quest VIII is the biggest thing from Japan since Godzilla.

  January 12, 2006

• Generation Next

  Microsoft's Xbox 360 fires the first shot in the next-gen console war.

  December 29, 2005

• Near Perfect

  Perfect Dark Zero isn't a bull's-eye, but it hits the target.

  December 8, 2005

• Puppy Love

  Nintendogs' charm will win over the most jaded of gamers.

  October 20, 2005

• Various Artists

  Original Soundtrack, Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas (Interscope)
  Best of Video Game Music: Hits Vol. 1 (Artemis)

  January 6, 2005

• Game On

  Video-game journalists look for a little respect.

  January 6, 2005

• Frag or Be Fragged

  The Parker Cyber Station serves up death and destruction all night long.

  December 4, 2003

• Hit Pick

  Mr. Pacman

  June 19, 2003

• Game Over

  Atari aficionado Rick Trotter finally faces reality: His beloved has joined the ranks of the eight-track and the Betamax.

  October 10, 1996

• "Ghetto Golf:" The new title from a Tony! Toni! Tone! singer's Denver-based videogame company

  Raphael Saadiq, ghetto golfer. So this is ... odd. Raphael Saadiq, a former singer from Tony! Toni! Tone! -- the California R&B group that serenaded most of my middle-school-dance makeout sessions -- apparently has a Denver-based videogame company called Illfonic. And that company has apparently created a videogame called "Ghetto Golf," a "Tiger Woods"-meets-"Grand Theft Auto" title that sends a strapped golfer hacking through the streets on makeshift holes, capping anyone and anything that sta

  April 14, 2009

• No vacation this year? Nintendo wants to help

  Photo by JohntexNintendo wants to take you here, via the Wii​Since you probably can't afford that getaway to a remote beach this year, how about the next best thing: video games. In this case, Wii Sports Resort, which is coming to Southwest Plaza, 8501 West Bowles Avenue in Littleton (www.southwestplaza.com), to show off the fancy-pants, new enhanced motion sensing abilities of the Wii MotionPlus accessory. The just-released game allows you to engage in a dozen resort-themed activities,

  August 13, 2009

• If the Nintendo van's a-rockin', don't come a-knockin'

  David Thomas shows off the Nintendo Airstream​I got an intriguing e-mail yesterday from my buddy David Thomas, a local syndicated videogame columnist and professional contemplator of all things related to joysticks. "I am meeting the Nintendo van tomorrow at 1 if you want to come along," he wrote cryptically. I'm not a big videogame player, but the idea of visiting some magical wheeled contraption full of pixelated goodness sounded too good to pass up. That's how I ended up in a downtown

  October 13, 2009