Subject: Video Games

• Tap Tap Shred

  December 6, 2007

• Anarchy in the 401k: Sex Pistols Regroup for Guitar Hero and London Shows

  September 25, 2007

• World of Warcraft, Government Pork and UC Irvine

  The online Bad Idea Magazine points us to a 49-page report by U.S. Senator Tom Coburn (R-Oklahoma) titled "2008: Worst Waste of the Year--A look back through some of the year's most outrageous federal spending." Included is this:Studying American and Chinese Video Game Habits - California ($100,000) American and Chinese video game playing habits have been too long overlooked by mainstream science, according to the National Science Foundation (NSF). To remedy this, NSF gave University of Californ

  December 16, 2008

• Game On

  Gaming's Greatest Hits: A look back at the best of 2007

  December 27, 2007

• [Game On] Party Crashers: 'Castle Crashers' Cuts Like a Knife, Feels So Right

  September 18, 2008

• [Game On] The Evolution Is Being Televised: Alas, 'Spore' Isn't the Leap You've Been Led to Believe

  September 25, 2008

• [Game On] You Down With OCD? Yeah, You Know Me

  October 16, 2008

• [Game On] Like Diggin' Ditches: Whatever 'Fracture' Is Breaking, It Ain't New Ground

  October 23, 2008

• [Game On] With 'Guitar Hero: World Tour,' a Series Shreds Its Momentum

  November 6, 2008

• Is Latest UCI Virtual World Study Grant 'Waste' or Boon for Business?

  Here we go again. The 49-page report "2008: Worst Waste of the Year," which U.S. Senator Tom Coburn (R-Oklahoma) compiled to expose examples of "outrageous federal spending," included the National Science Foundation (NSF) having given UC Irvine a $100,000 grant to study the differences in how gamers from the U.S. and China play the popular online video game World of Warcraft. Well, UCI just announced it has received a new $3 million grant from

  February 17, 2009

• [Game On] Game-Changer: Not Settling for Clever Play, 'Braid' Reinvents How to Tell a Story, Too

  August 28, 2008

• [Game On] To Diner For: If You Can't Stand the Heat, Stay Out of the 'Order Up!' Kitchen

  August 21, 2008

• [Game On] A Bit Force-ed: Lightsabers and Tits Don't Quite Hide 'Soul Calibur IV''s Lack of Ideas

  August 14, 2008

• [Game On] Gold Metal, Tarnished: French Laugh In the Face of Video Games As Sport

  August 7, 2008

• [Game On] From Wii Speak to 'Final Fantasy,' E3 Lets Gamers Glimpse at Their Next Obsessions

  July 24, 2008

• [Game On] A new take on the old 'Space Invaders' is all the extreme you need

  July 17, 2008

• [Game On] Atari's 'Alone In the Dark' Is Scary for All the Wrong Reasons

  July 10, 2008

• [Game On] 'Blast Works' Makes Blowing Stuff Up DIY-Friendly

  June 26, 2008

• [Game On] 'Guitar Hero' and 'Rock Band' Give New Meaning to 'Rock & Roll Excess'

  June 12, 2008

• [Game On] 'Castle of Shikigami III' Tests the Bounds of Wii Loyalty

  June 5, 2008

• [Game On] Nintendo's 'Wii Fit' Ignites Yet Another Fitness Fad

  May 29, 2008

• [Game On] Steven Spielberg Goes Direct-to-Video-Game With 'Boom Blox' for the Wii

  May 22, 2008

• [Game On] Niko Bellic and 'Grand Theft Auto IV' Are Great, But Is That Enough Anymore?

  May 15, 2008

• [Game On] There's More of the Same in 'Mario Kart Wii,' and That Just Might be Plenty

  May 8, 2008

• [Game On] Undead On Arrival: 'House of the Dead' Returns for the Wii, Stiff As Ever

  April 17, 2008

• [Game On] Thinning Crowds: It's Always Dead at the Club

  March 6, 2008

• [game on] Point and Chop

  No amount of sharpening can save this dull blade

  January 31, 2008

• Game On

  Shift Happens: Indy Legends brings Brickyard history to life

  January 10, 2008

• Game On

  Keep Dreaming: NiGHTS' second coming feels more like a first draft

  January 3, 2008

• Shred Cred

  WEB EXCLUSIVE! Shred Cred: You wanted the best—you got the best: Guitar Hero III

  November 15, 2007

• Game On

  Fun With Fluids: The Revolution will be televised—and plenty addictive, too

  November 1, 2007

• Game On

  Bang Bang for Your Buck: Five great games for $60—Shoot first, Ask questions later

  October 25, 2007

• Game On

  WEB EXCLUSIVE! Playing Dumb: Jackass presents the world’s biggest waste of time

  October 18, 2007

• Game On

  WEB EXCLUSIVE! Hype Machine: Does Halo 3 live up to its billing?

  October 11, 2007

• Game On

  Hot Mama: Cooking Mama for the Wii looks good enough to eat

  April 19, 2007

• Game On

  Bend It Like Bowser: Soccer gets a surreal twist in Mario Strikers Charged

  August 23, 2007

• Game On

  Star Dreck

  August 9, 2007

• Game On

  Mechanical Bull: A few more changes would’ve helped transformers

  July 26, 2007

• Game On

  All Class: The Wii’s Big Brain Academy makes summer school cool

  July 12, 2007

• Game On

  It Takes a Village: The terrorizing townsfolk of Resident Evil 4 shamble onto the Wii

  July 5, 2007

• Game On

  Bored Games: All the beer in the world cant save Mario Party 8

  June 28, 2007

• Never Mind the Sunshine

  Ten video games to keep you inside and on the couch this summer

  June 7, 2007

• Game On

  Student Bodies: Brooktown High takes you under the bleachers

  May 31, 2007

• Superzero

  Spider-Man 3 spins a web of mediocrity

  May 24, 2007

• Game On

  Balls of Fury: Marble Mania rolls out a winner for the Wii

  May 17, 2007

• Rolling Paper

  Super Paper Mario is flat-out fun

  May 3, 2007

• Game On

  For the birds
  Wing Island might make you cry fowl

  April 5, 2007

• Our Deep Thoughts On BlizzCon

  Chris Victorio​Whew, that was interesting. We're back from two days at BlizzCon 2009, and are only a little geekily ashamed to admit that it was a good time. You wanna see pictures? Here's our slideshow, and here's our post with many, many overflow pictures.This just in (two days ago) from Twitter:@OCWeekly what's blizzcon?Great question, @DiAnna42. Here, let's take a few hundred words to answer that question.

  August 24, 2009

• Five Regrettable Music/Video Game Moments

  ​Motörhead are currently on tour (including a stop at the House of Blues in Anaheim), they also play a role in upcoming action/adventure game Brütal Legend, out next week on Playstation 3 and Xbox 360 (we got a chance to play it at Comic-Con this year, it's a fun, straight-forward beat 'em up with some cool visuals). That game, with Jack Black voicing the main character and additional vocal appearances from Rob Halford, Ozzy Osbourne, Lita Ford and Motörhead singer Lemmy will probably be a

  October 7, 2009

• Gestures Gamers Come Up With Are Focus of UCI Gathering

  UCI Center for Computer Games & Virtual WorldsSenior research scientist Walt Scacchi of the UCI Institute for Software Research​Walt Scacchi, the director of research with UC Irvine's Center for Computer Games and Virtual Worlds, seeks live bodies rather than virtual ones for a lecture he's sponsoring this afternoon.

  November 12, 2009