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NewsHere's your daily dose of technology, toy, and video game news. Use the form below to get daily updates via email, and rest secure that we won't use your email address for anything else.  Innovation in video games is rare, especially in a tight economy, but
Fret Nice takes the two necessary steps into innovation while still
remaining safe: it's an XBLA game (inexpensive distribution and low
development budget), and it combines two successful genres: rhythm
(specifically guitar) and platform games.read more »
For most of our married life my wife and I have owned cockatiels including one specimen named Ender who greeted my wife with a lecherous wolf-whistle every morning. Our current feathered companion goes by the name of Bingley and spends much of his time whistling the theme to The Andy Griffith Show. read more »
When the brother Miller released the original Myst in 1993 they probably had no idea it would spawn a game franchise that would eventually include four more games, a short-lived on-line version, several novels and a handful of remakes of the original game. read more »
 Throw Bowling from Wii Sports, Mario Kart-style weapons, and a handful
of aliens and monsters into a blender, and you get...No! WAIT! NOT
LITERALLY! STOP! OH, THE HUMANITY!!!read more »
Tell you what - go read my review of Guitar Hero 5. Now pretend that I said all that stuff about a game that featured a lot of Van Halen songs, and skip the parts about DLC and the DS. Yay! Review done! Because this is basically a Van Halen-heavy track pack. So what do we have to talk about? The songs and their lyrics! read more »  Which
is more important in a game, play mechanics or graphic quality? The
Final Fantasy series has excelled since Final Fantasy VII in graphics
that push each successive console's capabilities, especially in its
cutscenes, but Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles: Crystal Bearers breaks
through the weakness of its predecessors by merging the beauty of its
cutscenes with the game engine, creating a completely seamless game
play experience.read more »
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Sky Crawlers - Innocent Aces is a pretty game. And parts of the music make me wish I had a better sound system at home to play it on. But some clunky design choices outside of the actual gameplay prevent me from giving it an enthusiastic recommendation. 
Licensed games typically have a well-earned reputation for being pretty bad. Normally, I would have looked at this, seen that it was based on a James Patterson book, and walked away, shaking my head. And to be honest, the budget price wouldn't have boosted my curiosity either. I'd have put it back on the shelf and walked away... and missed out on the most fun I've had on the DS in months. It's as though someone read my mind while I was asleep, and created a game targeted directly at all my sweet spots. 
What can I say about Guitar Hero: Van Halen? Hmmmm... Well, we didn't know we'd gotten a copy until we'd come back from visiting family over the holidays? Ummmm... it's Guitar Hero?