video games

Classic games are great, but they have a tendency to get stale over the years. Enter the gaming makeover.

Ah, the 1990s--a time where game console technology was rapidly changing and most video games could be beaten in a single day. A time with colorful action figures and small hand-held tech toys in a pre-cell phone world. As kids who grew up in the 80s and 90s, we find ourselves missing some of the games and toys we used to hold so highly. Luckily, we're seeing ports of classic games--and modern spins on older hits or classic toys--onto mobile platforms popping up more and more. Although they don't have quite the same feeling, they come pretty close. Here are three games for iOS that are sure to inspire nostalgia for gamers in the 90s.

Microsoft has cut the prices of many of its Xbox console titles. The software giant showed off the first round of discounted games Monday as part of its ongoing "Ultimate Game Sale."

Games from the new Ludum Dare challenge and other minimalist diversions.

If you weren't one of the early backers of Ouya's $100 Android game console, you'll have to wait a little bit longer to get one.

Drexel University has its own classic game project to challenge MITris, only this one is much bigger.

Build those towers and stop those creeps where they stand! These tower defense games are sure to please your inner strategist.

'E.T.' is the most reviled game in history, but a group of dedicated fans hacked its ROM, and turned the title around.

Artificial intelligence, a field of programming employed by video game developers to make characters smarter and improve their decisions, still has a ways to go before it actually yields intelligent characters.

In just the span of a few days last month, Real Racing 3 went from being one of the most-anticipated iOS games of the year to arguably one of the most frustrating.

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and Stanford University have partnered to save for posterity over 15,000 software programs created in the early days of microcomputing.

This week we've got games that ask you to do the hard stuff. You know, like confronting a crush and landing on the moon. Some of these games are hard to play (some are downright sadistic, in fact) and some are just about difficult things; more importantly, they're all even more fun than they are challenging.