Sony PlayStation

Warhawk, warhawk, and some warhawk: GamerStatus

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Gay and Transgender Divas Battle for Stardom in Bay Area's Ballroom Scene

Wii's Samurai Warriors Offers Dull Swordplay

Guitar Hero Peripherals Getting Cheesy, Lamer Than Original (in a Bad Way )

Xmas Present & Past

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

Bob Shaye's New Line

Movie mogul taps into his inner child

Hands Off

Final Fantasy XII: Role-playing on autopilot.

Glacial Profiling

Slow-paced Valkyrie Profile offers dull apocalypse.

Slithering Heights

The year's most shameless B-movie delivers exactly what it promises

Malleable

With a new owner opening a mega-mall down the street, the future of the Metreon is uncertain. Will you miss it? Find out where you stand!

Vince Charming

Vaughn ensures an amicable Break-Up

Ghouls on the Go

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

X-Man Reunited

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

This Game Bites

The new Castlevania is the last nail in the franchise's coffin.

Dramatic Understatement

Hip hop meets 1930s Germany in the theater piece Stateless

Asymmetric Warfare: The Game

Advances in ultrarealistic simulation let soldiers experience the war in Iraq -- before they go

In the Year 2005

Like killer bees and cheap labor, this year's music and fashion trends are charging up from the South (by Southwest)

Game On

Can they show penetration? Dog Bites visits the Game Developers Conference to find out.

Bouncer

You've got thirsty houseguests, we've got answers: Skip the Tonga Room.

Tech Toy Box

You've got thirsty houseguests, we've got answers: Skip the Tonga Room.

Cage Death Match

National Treasure makes us long for good Nic Cage movies ... like Con Air

Of Fads and Fingers

Do you raise your pinkie when drinking tea, you pretentious goof?

Get Lit

The Bay Area's homegrown literary fete offers an all-out orgy of word love

The Streets

A Grand Don't Come for Free (Vice)

On Grime

We look beyond the buzz to get to the bottom of British MC Dizzee Rascal's phenomenal rise to fame

A Fan's Notes

Ideas that were forgotten but not gone in 2003

Outfield

From the dugout, you could see small tents rising like goose bumps from the grass

Collect Call

Dropping in on Mark "Ultranova" at Blackhole for a little obsession with the art of things

Hear This

Experimental composer Koji Asano explores the beauty and terror of electronic sound

Band of Outsiders

Bay Area hip hop trio Foreign Legion has no use for gangstas, hos, or stale beats

The Closer

He's fallen off a third-story balcony, survived tuberculosis, and come back from four arm surgeries to lead the Oakland A's to the brink of post-season play. His name is Jason Isringhausen, and he IS the closer

Hot Wheels

Or: How Tony Hawk turned skateboarding into a multimillion-dollar international obsession

Fatman and slobbin'

DC Comics places its superheroes in the RealWorlds

Pirates at the Dock

Sony, Electronic Arts sue, alleging Bay Area residents were part of international video game piracy ring

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Pirates at the Dock

Sony, Electronic Arts sue, alleging Bay Area residents were part of international video game piracy ring

Riff Raff

Sony, Electronic Arts sue, alleging Bay Area residents were part of international video game piracy ring

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Sony, Electronic Arts sue, alleging Bay Area residents were part of international video game piracy ring

Market Report: Earth Island Expands into Former PlayStation Store, Adds Vendors

Meredith BrodyCupcake maker Kingdom of Cake is one of 10 new vendors.​On Monday last week, the Earth Island Farmers' Market in the Metreon (101 Fourth St. at Mission) expanded into the former Sony PlayStation store on Fourth Street, adding more than 10 new vendors. The market opened in mid-May ... More >>

Worlds Apart

Federal law gives gay citizens with foreign partners tough choices: Leave the U.S.A. Lose your love. Break the law.

Funny or Die

Federal law gives gay citizens with foreign partners tough choices: Leave the U.S.A. Lose your love. Break the law.

FarmVillains

Steal someone else's game. Change its name. Make millions. Repeat.

'Halo: Reach' Earns $200 Million, Shows Console Games Are Still Big Business

Still printing money, it seems​One of the more vivid side discussions provoked by our story last week on social-gaming company Zynga's allegedly predatory business practices was about the merits of Zynga-style games. The company specializes in Facebook apps that entice users to compulsively build ... More >>

"Immortals": Extravagantly Violent Epic is Glutted With Videogame Action, Imagery

Still printing money, it seems​One of the more vivid side discussions provoked by our story last week on social-gaming company Zynga's allegedly predatory business practices was about the merits of Zynga-style games. The company specializes in Facebook apps that entice users to compulsively build ... More >>

Wu-Tang Clan: Show Preview

Still printing money, it seems​One of the more vivid side discussions provoked by our story last week on social-gaming company Zynga's allegedly predatory business practices was about the merits of Zynga-style games. The company specializes in Facebook apps that entice users to compulsively build ... More >>

The Eight Most Memorable Pop Culture References on Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers)

​The rap game -- well, any game -- could use more people with the ambition of the RZA and the ability to make good on it. The man born Robert Diggs is more than an MC, a producer, and an actor. His resume also includes "DICTATOR" in big, bold letters: When the Wu-Tang Clan was just a bunch of ... More >>