Prepare to paint the town red. And blue, yellow, green, purple and ... well you get the idea. THQ is known for its highly entertaining games based on popular children's licenses like "SpongeBob SquarePants." "de Blob," its latest game, shows the company is more than capable of publishing a fun and surprisingly addictive platform/puzzler without a licensed cartoon character.
Legos have invaded both the "Star Wars" and "Indiana Jones" universes, and now the plastic Danish building blocks have zeroed in on "Batman."
The biggest mystery among this fall's video games could be Sony's ''LittleBigPlanet,'' a gorgeous PlayStation 3 title that combines running, jumping and puzzle-solving with a complete tool kit that allows you to assemble your own levels. The question: Once ''LBP'' is out there, will we see a flowering of player creativity? Or will most buyers pack it away once they've conquered the built-in levels?
TOKYO--Nintendo's hit DS portable machine will come with a digital camera that will allow players to mix images, scribble on photos and create new faces, the Japanese game maker said Thursday.
It used to be that few video-game companies held the belief that there was a place for casual video games.
Sandra Guy: Two Park Ridge natives' Chicago company is launching an online golf game today that lets people play in tournaments for fun or money. GimmeGolf.com is designed so people can "play" 18 holes on their lunch hour in a foursome with friends or in a tournament of up to 50.
As I was making my way through Will Wright's strange and occasionally interesting life-simulation game, "Spore," the Associated Press picked up a story that brought the whole thing into bigger importance: At this very moment, a team of biologists and chemists are closing in on creating life from unliving material. Sure, the actual discovery is still a few years off, but the fact that they are even this close is somehow both wonderful and frightening.