By Wired magazine contributing editor Brian Ashcraft In a country full of iconoclastic game designers, Japan's Keita Takahashi somehow manages to stand out even more. He gives press conferences barefoot. He doesn't like having his picture taken — his office couldn't get us one. He dreams of someda...

A recent survey conducted by Rubicon Consulting on the iPhone found that users "report very high levels of satisfaction"  with the product. That's not surprising considering almost half of the 460 survey-takers switched carriers just to use Apple's popular smartphone. Oddly and more i...

Once, the videogame industry had to fight against the perception that all games were for children. Nowadays, some game companies are struggling to make quality games for kids. Microsoft has assembled a crack team of studios that churn out Mature-rated titles like there's no tomorrow. The Xbox 360 ha...

With Viva Pinata: Trouble in Paradise for Xbox 360, the developers at Rare are taking another stab at the innovative game whose critical acclaim outpaced its commercial success. Lead designer Justin Cook tells us how they're trying to improve things this time round, and also spills some details on l...

Banjo-Kazooie: Nuts & Bolts for Xbox 360 is taking the classic Nintendo 64 platform games in an exciting new direction, letting the player build and customize vehicles out of an array of spare parts. We spoke with lead programmer Salvatore "Sal" Fileccia about the game, which has been ...

As far as first things in a presentation of a new game go, happily exclaiming that the main character has lost almost all his moves since the previous version isn't exactly a common one. And yet, that's exactly how I felt when I played Banjo-Kazooie: Nuts & Bolts, an upcoming Xbox 360 title that...

It's not quite a time machine, but this first-generation iPod unboxing photoset on Flickr will take you back to the early days of the millennium. What else was going on when Apple burst out its shell and began the iPod revolution? Let's take a look. The iPod has seen a countless number of revisions ...

LaCie has bumped up its line of rugged hard drives with this 500GB model, imaginatively called the LaCie Rugged Hard Disk. Portable storage solutions are a dime-a-dozen nowadays, but what makes this one quite exceptional is the means LaCie has taken to protect the hard drive. Inside of the tiny pack...

Since not everyone has enough technical know-how to properly connect an ordinary external USB hard drive to an Xbox 360 or Playstation 3, Iomega has announced the immediate availability of its new 160GB Media Xporter Drive. Iomega says that its wallet-sized drive has been tested for seamless compati...