AltWeeklies Wire
The Top 500 Games of All Timenew
Super Smash Brothers to Pac Man.
Boston Phoenix |
Phoenix Staff |
01-05-2011 |
Video Games
Players Only: A Peek Inside the World of Harmonixnew
Harmonix Music Systems is a Cambridge video-game company behind the Rock Band franchise and Guitar Hero. You may have seen the ad for its upcoming Beatles game -- it was recently playing on 100-foot screens behind Sir Paul at Fenway.
Boston Phoenix |
Matt Parish |
08-19-2009 |
Video Games
'Rock Band 2' Keeps it Rollingnew
No need to double-check your calendar -- Rock Band 2 really is available only 10 months after the release of the original.
Boston Phoenix |
Mitch Krpata |
10-02-2008 |
Video Games
Tags: video games, Rock Band 2
The Politics of Video Gamesnew
Violent video games don't really turn players into criminals, but their defenders do have a duty to confront the controversies they create.
Boston Phoenix |
Mitch Krpata |
04-24-2008 |
Video Games
Tags: violence, video games
SCRABULOUS L_W SU_Tnew
If board-game giant Hasbro has its way, there'll be no more online triple-word-scores for Scrabulous devotees.
Boston Phoenix |
Georgiana Cohen |
02-05-2008 |
Video Games
Tags: video games
In a Bit of a Jamnew
Rock Band, the follow-up to video-game smash Guitar Hero lets everybody play -- even the weakest link.
Boston Phoenix |
Ryan Stewart |
11-15-2007 |
Video Games
Tags: video games
'America's Army': Candylandnew
The US Army wants you ... to take on-screen violence seriously.
Boston Phoenix |
Ben Richardson |
05-03-2007 |
Video Games
Tags: video games
Six ... and 'Zero'new
Somebody at Namco must have lost track of how many Ace Combat sequels there were, thrown up his hands, and decided the hell with it -- I'm going with number zero!
Boston Phoenix |
Mitch Krpata |
05-11-2006 |
Video Games
Tags: video games
Not-So-Great Apenew
Peter Jackson’s King Kong has a long title, a big monkey but not much else.
Boston Phoenix |
Aaron Solomon |
01-09-2006 |
Video Games
Tags: video games
Video Games for 2006new
Sony's PlayStation 3 and Nintendo's Revolution are both slated to launch in 2006, though specific release dates -- like many pertinent details about the systems -- have yet to be disclosed.
Boston Phoenix |
Mitch Krpata |
12-30-2005 |
Video Games
Tags: video games
Power of Attorneynew
Phoenix Wright isn’t a cyborg attorney from the future, or an attorney cum hitman. He’s a regular defense lawyer, and he instantly becomes one of the most engaging video-game protagonists to date.
Boston Phoenix |
Mitch Krpata |
12-12-2005 |
Video Games
Tags: video games
Life Less Ordinarynew
Continuing in the puzzling but welcome tradition of previous platform-exclusive titles like the Grand Theft Auto series, last year's Half-Life 2 lands on the Xbox.
Boston Phoenix |
Aaron Solomon |
12-05-2005 |
Video Games
Tags: video games
This Is Hard-Corenew
Will the Xbox 360 revolutionize home entertainment forever? Sure — that is, until the PS3 comes out. Plus a sidebar on the ghosts of consoles past.
Boston Phoenix |
Chris Dahlen |
11-18-2005 |
Video Games
Tags: video games
The Trouble with Dribblesnew
NBA Live 06: Pretty colors, hard controls, really hard CPU.
Boston Phoenix |
Aaron Solomon |
11-11-2005 |
Video Games
Tags: video games
Sweet Sorrownew
Sony's Shadow of the Colossus is no ordinary game -- it's art.
Boston Phoenix |
Mitch Krpata |
11-08-2005 |
Video Games
