If you're stuck with spare time on your hands this holiday week, you should sit down with this excellent interview with Arnie Katz, one of the co-founders of the world's very first video game magazine.

That magazine was Electronic Games, a title many of our older (American) readers will no doubt be familiar with. Starting all the way back in ... Read More

Sensing that it is Christmas, and that Christmas is the time for giving, Nintendo's weekly download update is this week suitably festive.

Not only do American Wii owners get the pleasant surprise of Castlevania The Adventure ReBirth on WiiWare and The Oregon Trail on DSiWare, but PilotWings - the original, Super Nintendo great - is now available on the Virtual ... Read More

As we've covered, the Soviet Union didn't just have big tanks and long lines for potatoes. It also had video games. But those games didn't just sell themselves! Like everything else, they needed to be advertised.

In addition to actual arcade cabinets, the Museum of Soviet Arcade Machines also plays home to a collection of classic posters, for games with ... Read More

The official World of Warcraft magazine, which has been coming for what feels like years now, still isn't out. That's the bad news. Good news? The mag's site finally gives us a good look at the publication.

Each 148-page issue is funded solely through subscriptions (and, presumably, Blizzard), so there'll be no ads. Just articles and pictures. Below, you can ... Read More

Sales figures can be an impressive thing, but so too can the figures showing how many times a game has been pirated. OK, maybe not "impressive". "Disappointing" might be a more suitable term.

Actually, looking at the sheer scale of numbers on display here, change that to "very disappointing". TorrentFreak have hit up all the major public BitTorrent trackers and ... Read More

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China Central Television (CCTV) is apparently on a tear, correlating youth violence and youthful indiscretions with online game use. Yahoo News reports the latest program from the state news channel, titled Confession of a Murderer -- Focus on Pornography and Violence in Online Game (Part Two), features a boy in a Beijing juvenile prison serving life after killing five people ... Read More

22 year-old Bronx resident Jeremiah Gilliam must have thought he was pretty smart after allegedly breaking into over two hundred cars and several homes to steal video game consoles, games and other pricey items.

Thing is, Jeremiah Gilliam is not smart.

Having stolen an Xbox 360 during one of his burglaries, Gilliam returned home, plugged the console in and started ... Read More

This site is not the Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker portal. This site is. So what exactly is Konami touting with this picture of sneaky Snake equipping a box. What's going on?

Beats me, What, you thought I was gonna tell you on the jump? Siliconera noticed the "Piece Walker" portal, but has no clue, either. The only links on ... Read More

The good folks at IncGamers had a chat with one of BioWare's founding medical doctors, Ray Muzyka, about the company's history of classic single-player gaming and its upcoming foray into the world of massively multiplayer with Star Wars: The Old Republic. Muzyka says that the line between solo and collective experiences is blurring: even traditionally single-player games are dipping into ... Read More