We were pretty certain the fully functional calculator was the most complex LittleBigPlanet mod around. Surely nobody could top that for sheer intricacy, could they? Oh Internet, you spoil us. PSN user 'Cristel' has gone and implemented a basic Tic Tac Toe engine, armed only with the LBP level creat...

Sooner or later someone is going to have to give us a definitive answer in the "will gaming survive the recession" debate. This week, 'analysts' reckon that the answer for casual gaming is 'maybe not'. The problem is in the 'Casual' bit. The scores of newly minted gamers attracted to shorter, shallo...

Researchers at Rice University make heavy use of high-end motion capture systems (glued on ping-pong balls and all) when studying how humans acquire and improve motor skills, but perhaps a WiiMote will do the job. In studying how stroke victims re-learn physical tasks, the researchers found that the...

Back in the good old days of home microcomputing, the only way to play some Super Mario Bros was on a console. Then in 1987, Time Warp Productions created Great Giana Sisters... This blatant Bros clone pissed Nintendo off no end, and they promptly cease 'n' desisted the game off the shelves, only to...

We joke about the iPhone being the Best Portable Device For Gamesâ„¢ but it has had quite a good year, games-wise. Apple has just released the top download charts for iTunes games. Of course, what these charts don't tell us how many people are still playing the games they downloaded. The App Store c...

I'll say this for Rockstar - they do like a controversy. Usually, though, they go in for cool controversies like sexy mini games or the sensationalised depiction of car crime and bullying. Lame kerfuffles about copy protection schemes just seem a bit off-message, somehow. C'mon chaps, you'll not get...

Van Gogh's De sterrennacht (The Starry Night) is widely hailed as the Dutch post-impressionist's masterpiece - a landscape drawn from memory and a perfect example of the Master's fascination with the nocturnal. Also, it makes a kick-ass Counterstrike map. de_vangogh: Counterstrike goes "The Starry N...

Hey, guess what platform exclusive games have sold over a million copies in the UK recently? Why, it's Mario Kart Wii and Wii Fit, of course. Trade organisation ELSPA has been counting the beans and both Wii titles have been selling like hot cakes made of chocolate-coated crack with porn sprinkles -...

The very definition of 'Neat Hack', Ken Moore shows us his DIY Wiimote Theremin with a virtuoso rendition of a piece traditionally associated with the instrument - the theme from Star Trek. It's not, in actual fact, a real Theremin. Rather than radio frequency oscillations, Ken uses tiny LEDs on the...

Sexist, racist, homophobic, misogynist, puerile and occasionally slightly amusing. This is the world of Bad Hacks - a celebration of the best/worst in old-school ROM hacking. Gasp at the thrilling adventures of Dragon Pervert ("take down an evil Dominatrix & her army of gimps using breasts or someth...