Sweet games like this year’s Maxim top 10, plus those left off like Rock Band, and the always-out-of-stock Nintendo Wii have fueled a record year of game sales. New sales numbers from NPD Group put the console and game total for November at $2.63 billion. The total for 2007 is now $13.1 billion. Even without [...]

‘Tis the season for top 10 lists, and Maxim found 10 games better than Halo 3 in 2007. If only it were a top 11 list, I’m sure Master Chief would have been included. Instead, Halo 3 had to settle for the “user pick,” an accolade on par with “most improved.” But at least Halo [...]

2K Sports announced it is developing Don King Presents: Prizefighter, a boxing sim for the Xbox 360, Wii, and DS. GamePro quotes King as saying, “In all my years working in professional boxing, I have never seen anything come as close to re-creating the thrill, the intensity, the courage and the spectacle of the sport.” [...]

Rock Band players without a drumming background may not know there are three “right ways” to hold drumsticks.
Now that you know … learn them. They all have tradeoffs and one may work better than others, but all give better control and use less energy than gripping the sticks like hammers and pounding away. Use these [...]

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