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Rage Against the Machinima: As YouTube becomes increasingly wealthy, its stars and the networks who contract with them battle for money and creative control

Blues Off to Mediocre Start in Simulated NHL Season

The NHL lockout may stopped professional hockey in North America, but in the virtual world of EA Sports the game plays on.   The maker of the popular video game NHL 13 is simulating the NHL season online, and so far the St. Louis Blues are off to a less-than-stellar first half. As of Sunda ... More >>

Music from Final Fantasy at Powell Hall, 3/23-3/24/12: Review, Photos and Setlist

Distant Worlds: Music from Final Fantasy Powell Hall March 23 and March 24, 2012 The most interesting aspect of a Final Fantasy concert could be the audience. The orchestra was often met with thunderous applause and screaming between pieces or at the start of familiar and popular songs -- more like ... More >>

The Best of Covers of Mario Paint, Unlikely Video Game Composition Forefather

Mario is a versatile video game character. In his long career in the digital world, Mario raced go-karts, fought adversaries in hand-to-hand combat and even got kidnapped to teach kids about geography. Yet Nintendo's plumber extraordinaire may have inadvertently been a trailblazer in the realm of v ... More >>

A Tradition Virtually Like No Other

Interview: Kai Huang, CEO of RedOctane, a.k.a. The Company Behind Guitar Hero

Last Night: Guitar Hero at the Tin Can, St. Louis

Nintendo's Wii Fit ignites yet another fitness fad

Iron Chef America -- The Game!

Thinning Crowds: It's always dead at The Club

Text Adventure: Words get in the way of an otherwise stellar Lost Odyssey

Gaming for Good

No amount of sharpening can save this dull blade.

Samurai Warriors: KATANA

Axes to Grind

The Guitar Hero frenzy careens toward overkill.

Shift Happens

Indy Legends brings Brickyard history to life.

Almost Famous

It's never been easier to start your own (fake) band.

Shred Cred

You wanted the best — you got the best: Guitar Hero III.

Bang Bang For Your Buck

It's five great games for $60 -- shoot first and ask questions later.

Party Pooper

The Wii's latest pool game is a cue stick in the mud.

Trick Play

NFL greats shake off the rust in All-Pro Football.

Student Bodies

Brooktown High takes you under the bleachers.

Prepare for Burnination!

Rolling Paper

Super Paper Mario is flat-out fun.

This Is Madness

PSP players, tonight you game in hell.

My Name Is Mud

Like its muck-puddles, MotorStorm is a shallow mess.

Virtually Perfect

Virtua Fighter 5 delivers . . . exactly what you'd expect.

All Dressed Up . . .

PlayStation 3 has potential -- but for the moment, little else.

Encore Performance

Don't fret. Guitar Hero II kills the opening act.

Hands Off

Final Fantasy XII: Role-playing on autopilot.

Latin Bummer

Just Cause features acres and acres of . . . foliage.

Cold as Ice

NHL 2K7 looks pretty, but fails to light the lamp.

Brush With Greatness

Okami shows that videogames can be art.

Puddle of Fun

LocoRoco is the perfect one-night stand.

Glacial Profiling

Slow-paced Valkyrie Profile offers dull apocalypse.

Dogs of War

Chromehounds tests patience as much as skill.

Final Fantasy

7:30 p.m. Tuesday, August 22. Creepy Crawl (3524 Washington Boulevard).

It's Not Insect-inside

You'll be outdoors, friend

Pong 360

Like the real thing, Table Tennis shouldn't be played alone.

The Brain Game

Can Nintendo really make you smarter?

A Real Knockout

Fight Night Round 3 comes out a winner, despite taking punches.

Ghouls on the Go

A Resident Evil remake captures all the creepy fun of the original.

Tae Kwon Ho

Dead or Alive 4 finally gets hardcore.

Exit the Matrix

The Matrix: Path of Neo is more chop suey than chopsocky.

Monkey Shines

Peter Jackson's King Kong earns its crown.

They've Got Game

Barbarians, brain-eaters, and beagles round out the best of 2005.

They've Got Game

Barbarians, brain-eaters and beagles round out the best of 2005

Puppy Love

Nintendogs' charm will win over the most jaded of gamers.

Joystick Cinema

It's man vs. machinima when video games become, ahem, movies

PROPPING THE DATA

Even though the instruments of choice are computers, Paul Davis and Joe Beuckman of Beige Records make music brimming with energy and personality