Video Games

Rock Band DLC Shuts Down: How A Geek Sport Briefly Became A Party Phenomenon

Rock Band is over. Well--kind of over. It's been "over" in the people-who-wouldn't-otherwise-touch-a-Playstation-caring-about-it sense since a few months after Beatles Rock Band came out, but now it's "over" inasmuch as after April 2, when "American Pie" will be released (nice timing), developer Har ... More >>

Music Games Decline to Rage Against the Censorship Machine

Censorship is one of music's longer running conflicts, a struggle where the desire for marketability often trumps creative freedom. That's been the case for every music video game in existence, titles that constantly walk the aforementioned tightrope. One of the more challenging songs to appear in ... More >>

Ten Music Game DLC Releases That Stirred Up Controversy

It's not hyperbole to say that downloadable content sparked a huge revolution in console video gaming. Expansions prolonged replay value of many titles, especially music games such as Rock Band and Guitar Hero. The Rock Band franchise in particular has produced an impressive amount of downloadable ... More >>

Rock Band Blitz Takes Music Game Genre Back to Basics

Recent music games have become opulent affairs, pulling out all the artistic stops to capture gamers' attention spans. The Beatles: Rock Band for instance was a beautiful visualization of the legendary group's music, complete with dazzling virtual representations of the Fab Four. And various iterati ... More >>

What's Your Fantasy?

Final Fantasy's Majestic Music Comes to Powell Hall

​Final Fantasy IV was merely a collection of sprites shoved into a 16-bit cartridge. But under the simple exterior was a revolution, a game that helped make the Final Fantasy saga the most dominant role playing game series in the world. Today's beard-stroking gamers possibly encountered RPGs thro ... More >>

How Defunct Columbia Band Audio Ammunition Came to Appear on Rock Band

In addition to being a blast to play at parties, music video games such as Rock Band and Guitar Hero are a great marketing tool for bands. They allow artists to expose their work to new audiences -- and, in some cases, highlight the intricacies of their songs. And with the advent of the Rock Band Ne ... More >>

Video Game Tournament ... at the Library? WTF?

​Call us old fashioned, but should the city's library system really be hosting video game tournaments? That's what Daily RFT set out to answer yesterday after receiving an announcement for the St. Louis Library's Super Smash Bros. Brawl tournament this coming Saturday at the Carpenter Branch on So ... More >>

The Virtualous Life

Live's better with a reset button

William Sides Atari Party/Giveupnewyork

8 p.m. Sunday, August 3. The Bluebird, 2706 Olive Street

Blast Works makes blowing stuff up DIY-friendly

Guitar Hero and Rock Band give new meaning to "rock and roll excess"

Castle of Shikigami III tests the bounds of Wii loyalty

Steven Spielberg goes direct-to-video-game with Boom Blox for the Wii

There's more of the same in Mario Kart Wii, and that just might be plenty

House of the Dead returns for the Wii, stiff as ever

Guinness writes the book on gaming, but doesn't shatter any records

Digging Your Scene

B-Sides takes a pull of Earthworms' Burbon and rocks out to...Tetris?

Gaming's Greatest Hits

A look back at the best of 2007.

Xmas Present & Past

How yesterday's games spawned today's best-sellers.

Fun With Fluids

The Revolution will be televised — and plenty addictive too.

Hype Machine

Does Halo 3 live up to its billing?

Punk is Finally, Truly, Absolutely, Completely Dead

Bend It Like Bowser

Soccer gets a surreal twist in Mario Strikers Charged.

Star Dreck

Alien Syndrome will alienate some, infect others.

Mechanical Bull

A few more changes would've helped Transformers.

All Class

The Wii's Big Brain Academy makes summer school cool.

It Takes a Village

The terrorizing townsfolk of Resident Evil 4 shamble onto the Wii.

Bored Games

All the beer in the world can't save Mario Party 8.

Three's a Charm

A promising glimpse of the next Halo.

Superzero

Spider-Man 3 spins a web of mediocrity.

Balls of Fury

Marble Mania rolls out a winner for the Wii.

Hot Mama

Cooking Mama for the Wii looks good enough to eat.

For the Birds

Wing Island might make you cry fowl.

No Replay for Wii Play

There's not much besides an extra controller to these minigames.

BY CHRIS WARD

There's more than one way to play with your Wii.

Week of February 22, 2007

Resistance Isn't Futile

It's just the only standout in an otherwise shameful launch.

Wii Love It

Nintendo finally gets 1-Up on the competition.

Copycat Killer

Saints Row shamelessly apes Grand Theft Auto.

Next Big Things

The five biggest attention-getters at E3.

Sonic Bust

Sega's Hedgehog goes back to the grind . . . yawn.

Back to the Future

The Xbox Live Arcade is a high-tech twist on the old-fashioned coin-op.

Save the Princess!

X-Man Reunited

There's nothing rusty about Mega Man X's old-school 'bots.

Enter the Dragon

Dragon Quest VIII is the biggest thing from Japan since Godzilla.

Generation Next

Microsoft's Xbox 360 fires the first shot in the next-gen console war.

Generation Next

Microsoft's Xbox 360 fires the first shot in the next-gen console war

Near Perfect

Perfect Dark Zero isn't a bull's-eye, but it hits the target.

SoundBlaster Masters

The Nintendo Fusion Tour brings a pixilated party to the Pageant

Best Use Of Obsolete Computers

8-Bit Construction Set