Taking the kids on a road trip may be tiresome and stressful way to vacation. But fear not! Mario and his friends have come to the rescue. Portable gaming devices are a great way to occupy the kids in the back seat while you can have a nice and peaceful drive to where ever you’re [...]
To say that here at Mashable we “heart” word games is as much of an understatement as saying the ocean is a bit wet.
Fellow wordsmiths know there are few things better than a good game involving language, but with the App Store (App Store) brimming with such offerings, which ones do you go for?
To save [...]
Dance Dance Revolution (DDR) swept the video game nation years ago, bringing exercise to the ever-lanky computer and fantasy world lovers; but the latest incarnation of the wildly popular game actually intentionally incorporates workouts into the dance.
PS3 sure is one of the most coveted consoles of our times, and there is a very good reason for that. Most people prefer the PS3 or PS3 Slim to play games, and it is the most universally used console in the whole wide world.
Since so many millions of people use the PS3, you may [...]
Let’s face it, when it comes to getting our kicks, we differ from the folks from the Land of the Rising Sun. But even though Japanese pop culture seems odd to us, there are certain things we’d like, and other things we’d like more of. Things such us as great Japanese Anime and Manga, some [...]
Video games are quickly approaching Hollywood movies in terms of budget size, and often surpass then altogether. In the early 90s, video game budgets were around $100,000 — when Doom was released in 1993 it had cost $200,000 and was touted as one of the most expensive games at the time. Today, that barely covers [...]
First-person shooters have come to dominate the world of video games. Over the decades, these titles have been able to push platforms to their production limits while employing innovative storytelling and gameplay that brings the medium to a whole new level. They have also been the driving force in the integration of online elements that [...]
Japanese TV: think people hurting themselves in weird and unusual ways, games in which the only prizes are naked chicks, and panties. Lots of them. Absurdly obsessive amounts of them. We’ve compiled a list of some of the weirdest moments from Japanese TV – although to be honest, there’s plenty that was too fruity for [...]
If you’ve ever collected baseball cards, comic books, stamps, or maybe those limited edition commemorative plates, you understand the concept of the “Holy Grail” item.
It’s that last, hard-to-find, incredibly rare, usually expensive piece that you have to have before you can officially say your collection is complete. If you’re a collector of vintage home video [...]
Time was, like most kids, you loved board games. You bugged your parents and your aunts and uncles and your grandparents to “play a gaaaaame” until they finally gave in, picked up the dice, and proceeded to let you win.
It’s vital for a hard-hitting action game to have appropriately powerful guns, but it’s also important to have weapons that are fun to wield, require in-depth strategy to use, and don’t look and act like the same old thing from every other game.
Before the Internet provided instant access to vast stores of reference information, news, entertainment, and the like, there were CD-ROMs.
Everybody knows the NES classic Super Mario Bros. Everybody–your parents, little sister, and even your grandparents should be able to recognize the game by its iconic title. Although you may have beaten the game over and over again since its release in 1986, there are, amazingly, some things that you may still not have noticed [...]
