You may not have heard any sinews twanging or backbones creaking into an upright position, but a kind of evolution is being seen in America’s family rooms. You don’t need to worry that Fido will start walking on his hind legs and ask you to go fetch th …
A heavily shadowed sub strategically swims in and out of the crack-your-hull-like-an-eggshell ocean depths, having battled its way past a gauntlet of PT boats, torpedo-bombers and destroyers. The captain throws a quick glance toward the instruments and …
My introduction to fantasy role-playing games came in sixth grade. At a bookstore, I noticed a fascinating tome called the Fiend Folio detailing abilities of various monsters. I didn’t know it, but the book was a Dungeons & Dragons resource. I boug …
After releasing eight Tony Hawk games, the creative team over at Activision has decided to ollie up to tweens who probably haven’t played the skateboarding series before. (An ollie is when a skateboarder pops his board up into the air by kicking down o …
After 75 years, hundreds of books, 14 games, and a handful of movies and TV shows, Nancy Drew is still a teenager and going undercover once again in the video game Nancy Drew: Danger by Design. This time she’s off to Paris, to ostensibly take a summer …
When the very first Star Wars film hit theaters, I took my girlfriend to see it. I know that makes me sound ancient, but I was only, uh … 3 at the time. Anyway, we were late getting there and ended up reluctantly sitting in the front row. By the time …
When the game-designing guys and gals behind Velvet Assassin hit on the idea for their new title, they surely must have slapped each other on the back with collective enthusiasm. I mean, a Lara Croft-type heroine (complete with crisp English accent and …
