Contributor: Marcus Yoars

The Wild West. A mere mention sparks images of dusty wagon trails, rugged cowboy adventures and saloon-filled towns built by gold-mining hopefuls. In the late 1800s, the invasion of settlers into American Indian territory led to a lawless every-man-for …

Nowadays, every blockbuster movie comes with a video game in tow. It’s par for the marketing course, a promotional tool that’s usually greeted by gamers with apathy. And for good reason, too. The stigma surrounding these tie-ins is that they’re fluff p …

A lot of basketball fans, players and coaches are crying foul this season. As part of a much-needed effort to clean up the on-court antics of NBA kazillionaires acting like kids, officials were told to slap a technical foul on any player who complained …

I remember playing the original Prince of Persia game when it first came out in 1989. With its unprecedented motion realism, it was truly revolutionary for its time. Creator Jordan Mechner had spent hours upon hours recording his brother running, walki …

The Spartan warrior of slaughterfest ‘God of War’ can do some serious damage onscreen. What’s less evident is how much damage he can do to gamers.

I’m guessing the offices of Criterion Studios house enough testosterone to warrant at least one conference room solely dedicated to blowing off steam. I picture twenty- and thirtysomething men putting each other in half nelsons during their lunch break …

In a land far, far away, where the legends of rock ‘n’ roll are born and not made, I still can’t shred. Not after more than two decades of playing the guitar. Not after spending countless nights burning the midnight oil until my fingers bled. Not after …

James Bond. Lara Croft. Sam Fisher. Agent 47. These are some of the gaming world’s most well-known heroes. Using stealth, speed, strategy and, above all, an endless array of blow-’em-up weaponry, they’ve sleuthed their way into legendary status. With S …

Peter Jackson knows movies. And he also knows marketing. To create more buzz for his Lord of the Rings trilogy (as if it needed it), the New Zealand director teamed with Electronic Arts to release The Two Towers and The Return of the King as video game …

After millenniums of squelching inferior races, a species of bulbous-headed extraterrestrials find themselves unable to propagate. Now they need our DNA.

‘Battlefront II’ is somehow not inferior to a movie. This game is awe-inspiring in both scope and detail.

A back-roads bluesman sets out to ‘cure’ the town tramp—by chaining her up—in this nauseating, morally double-minded ‘message’ movie.

Is ‘Something New’ the same ol’ same ol’? Or does this interracial love story live up to its title?

Straight from the pages of Clive Cussler’s adventure novels comes Dirk Pitt, a swashbuckling treasure hunter who’s once again making the leap to the big screen.

An unforgettable WWII story that—with a little creative license and added element of romance—is now being retold to generations far removed but forever indebted.