Video Games

Booze, Nostalgia and RPGs: Redstone Meadery Honey Wine with Vanilla Beans and Cinnamon Sticks

My dork resume is long and varied. Much more so than its professional counterpart. Band, debate, drama ... the list goes on and on. For the purposes of this article, we're going to focus on the RPG bullet. I haven't been much of a gamer since I had kids of my own; the little bastards always want to ... More >>

Celebrity Tech Endorsements: 5 Cool and 5 Highly Annoying Examples Of Product Pimpage

Celebrity endorsements are nothing new. They have been around as long as there were celebrities and companies willing to pay them to say they smoked Kool's or drove Chevy, or force us to explain to children and the elderly why we would giggle every time we saw the milk-stained upper lip of a famous ... More >>

MLB 2K11 Version of Houston Astros Makes (Terrible) History

Hmmm, who should I pick as Halladay's opponent?​Video games have always been one of the more underrated enemies of society. When I was a kid, sitting around and playing Atari or Intellivision all day was completely frowned upon by parents. The mall arcade was where the "hoodlum" kids went to ... More >>

Chronophage: A Sedate Sort Of Black-Metal Band

It's a well-known fact that most band names are essentially gobbledygook, but here at Rocks Off we're trying hard to find the meaning in some of the odder monikers. ​We know of Kenny Khaos and his band Cronophage through the orifices of Justin Whitney and his band Church ov Melkarth. Cronopha ... More >>

Saturday Night: The Houston Symphony Does Final Fantasy At Jones Hall

Photos courtesy of Houston SymphonySaturday's cast (from left): Alan Halverson as Kefka , Rachel Smith as Yuffie, Amanda Ayr as Tifa​The Houston Symphony Jones Hall July 24, 2010 While everyone else in Houston was going gaga for Gaga, Aftermath headed down to Jones Hall to hear the Houston Sy ... More >>

Opera: The Video Game

​Recently, Valerie Alberto gave you a list of video-game theme-song covers that sent your humble narrator hurtling back into his childhood, a time when beating a game was called "flipping." And when Rocks Off thinks of video-game music, only one things comes to mind - the opera scene in Final ... More >>

Rice Getting Plaudits For Teaching Video Game Design

Photo by Hallie JordanRice senior Giacomo Ferrari with his game Box Wars​Computer gaming--usually a top procrastination activity -- has landed Rice University a spot in the Princeton Review and GamePro magazine's top 50 schools for computer game design.Computer science professor Joe Warren star ... More >>

DJ Hero: A Review

​The geniuses that first let you rock 'n' roll with guitar legends in Guitar Hero decided to bring out a new instrument for gamers to party on. This time, Activision brought out the turntables for their newest title, DJ Hero. Available for the Playstations 2 & 3, Xbox 360, and Nintendo Wii, DJ ... More >>

You Down With OCD? Yeah, You Know Me

Video games linked to obsessive, Tony Shalhoub-type behavior

Spore Isn't the Leap You've Been Led to Believe

The Revolution Will Be Televised

Annoyed Parent Wants Wii Out Of The Children's Section Of The Library

Video Gaming at the Games? Not This Year, Pal

Olympic Scold

Diminished Expo-tations at E3

E3 revelations are hit and miss — unless you really dig chopping wood

An Old Flame, Scorching: Space Invaders Extreme

Forget that shiny new shooter. A new Space Invaders is all the extreme you need

Atari's Alone in the Dark is scary for all the wrong reasons

Leave It Alone

Majesco's Blast Works: Blowing stuff up DIY-style

Blast Happy

Castle of Shikigami III tests the bounds of Wii loyalty

Empty Castle

Direct to Video Game: Steven Spielberg's Boom Blox

The king of Hollywood takes on the small screen

Still Lapping It Up with Mario Kart Wii

Nothing you haven't seen, but still a welcome sight

Undead on Arrival: The House of the Dead 2&3 Return

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

Paging Freaks: Guinness World Records Gamer's Edition 2008

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

You Look Like a Freak When You Play With Your Wii

Gamers Become Stars with Rock Band or Guitar Hero

Meet the newest kind of bar band

NiGHTS: Journey of Dreams

NiGHTS's second coming feels more like a first draft

The Best Games of 2007

A look back at gaming's greatest hits

Halo 3

Does Halo 3 live up to its billing?

Mario Strikers Charged

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.

Big Brain Academy

The Wii's Big Brain Academy makes summer school cool

Resident Evil 4

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.

Halo 3

A promising glimpse of the next Halo.

Cooking Mama

for the Wii looks good enough to eat

Wii Play

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

Channel Surfing

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

Wii Love It

Nintendo finally gets 1-Up on the competition.

Copycat Killer

Saints Row shamelessly apes Grand Theft Auto.

Super Mario Symphony

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

X-Man Reunited

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

Hollywood Halo

Texas teens turn video games into movies and get millions of hits

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

Near Perfect

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

The Halo Challenge

Master Chief, a weapons-toting super-enhanced human, is the only being who can save the earth. A video gamer from Texas is the world champion at helping him do just that — thousands of times over.

She's Got Game

Video game vixen Morgan Webb stops by for a little X-Play

Game On

Young warriors gather for battles in cyberspace