My 3-year-old daugh­ter has a video game con­sole made by Leap Frog. It helps her learn let­ters and stuff like that but it is very clunky and the graph­ics look worse than Joust. She has really out­grown it and is very curi­ous about my XBOX and PS3. She always asks to play games with me but COD and Splat­ter­house aren’t exactly age appro­pri­ate....

  I will be 100 % hon­est when I say that the fight­ing game genre has always been one of my favorites. Dat­ing back to Karate Champ on the NES. PS3, Wii and Xbox 360 gamers have enjoyed the cur­rent resur­gence of fight­ing games. With Super Street Fighter 4 lead­ing the charge gamers have been treated to some great titles. Mor­tal Kom­bat, MvC3, SF2...

The announce­ment of new char­ac­ters for Mar­vel vs Cap­com 3 has yielded mixed results so far. On one end peo­ple like some of the enhance­ments, but on the other hand most gamers feel that Cap­com is dou­ble dip­ping too much. The biggest dis­cus­sions on var­i­ous forums relate to the new char­ac­ters debut­ing in UMvC3. While some are...

  Remem­ber Street Fighter 2, then Street Fighter 2 Cham­pi­onship Edition? Then Street Fighter 2 Turbo, then Super Street Fighter 2, then Super Street Fighter 2 Turbo…..? (I might be miss­ing one or two) Finally Cap­com learned to count past two and Street Fighter 3 was released, then they got stuck on that num­ber for a bit with Street Fighter 3,...

  MORTAL KOMBAT! One can­not say the name of this series with­out yelling the name out as loud as pos­si­ble each time it is brought up. Maybe that’s just me, but in any case, Mor­tal Kom­bat has been out for over a month now and has been gain­ing a tremen­dous fol­low­ing of fans, old and new. The series has had its ups and downs since its debut...

In my years of gam­ing, I’ve gone through more con­trollers than I can count. Hav­ing been gam­ing since I was a child, I’ve dealt with the some of the best and some of the worse. For those of you look­ing to improve your game­play or just want some insight into some bet­ter con­troller options, read on for some of the Xbox 360 con­trollers that I...