• Great Pencil-and-Paper Pastimes Online

  
  Crossword puzzles, Boggle, Jumble, logic problems, and more: If you enjoyed tackling it with pencil and paper, you can find it online. Here are some of the best.

• Atari Laid the First Easter Egg

  
  Analysis: Programmer, tired of hiding his light under a bushel, put his name in pixels.
• Rock Band: Unplugged Launches June 9
• Fire Words for IPhone
• Choose: Wii Price Cut? Or "Better Entertainment"?
• Acer's AspireRevo Nettop Taps Ion Platform
• Hands On with Nintendo's DSi Gaming Handheld
• CTIA Recap and Nintendo GameBoy DSi On PC World Podcast Episode 24
• Scooped: Red Faction Guerrilla Demo
• Rumor: PSP2 Out Before Christmas

Gaming How-Tos

• DigiYumi: Peta 2 Kills Virtual Seals in World of Warcraft Peta 2 kills seals to show that killing seals is wrong.
• Hack: How to Play DVD Movies on Your Nintendo Wii How to play DVD movies on your Nintendo Wii using the Homebrew Channel. No warranty voiding mod-chip required.

Gaming News

• Great Pencil-and-Paper Pastimes Online Crossword puzzles, Boggle, Jumble, logic problems, and more: If you enjoyed tackling it with pencil and paper, you can find it online. Here are some of the best.
• VP Announced Hearts of Iron 3, Elven Legacy Games for Mac Virtual Programming has announced plans to release two new games for the Mac: Hearts of Iron 3 and Elven Legacy. Pricing and...
• Preview: Firemint's Real Racing for IPhone Firemint's Real Racing promises to be the first serious racing simulator on the iPhone.
• Rock Band: Unplugged Launches June 9 Rock Band is coming to the PSP, with a special Rock Band Entertainment Pack bundle offered in North America.
• CTIA Recap and Nintendo GameBoy DSi On PC World Podcast Episode 24 PC World Editors Robert Strohmeyer, Denny Arar, Darren Gladstone and Ginny Mies join in a lively discussion about the CTIA conference and the Nintendo GameBoy DSi

Gaming Playing in PCW Video

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  Hands On with Nintendo's DSi Gaming Handheld Nintendo's recently released DSi handheld has a host of new features. Senior Writer Darren Gladstone tells you what works, and what doesn't.
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  World Tech Update: DSi Launch, Robots, and More... Nintendo’s DSi handheld launches worldwide, iRobot updates the Looj, Casmobot mows the lawn, and more...
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  New Nintendo Games: Zelda for the DSi System, Punch-Out for the Wii Nintendo announces a new version of the game Zelda for the upcoming DSi, as well as Punch-Out for the Wii system.

Gaming Slideshows

• Great Pencil-and-Paper Pastimes Online Crossword puzzles, Boggle, Jumble, logic problems, and more: If you enjoyed tackling it with pencil and paper, you can find it online. Here are some of the best.
• Gadget Autopsy: The Nintendo Game Boy Nintendo’s classic gaming handheld turns 20 years old this month. To celebrate its birthday, we took one apart on the workbench to see what makes this gaming legend tick.
• The Best (and Worst) of GDC 2009 Learn about what you'll be playing (or avoiding) this year, as we look at some of the best bets--and the weirdest tech--to come out of the 2009 Game Developer's Conference.
• Hands-On With OnLive Streaming Gaming Service at GDC 09 A close-up look from the 2009 Game Developers Conference at Rearden Studios' up-and-coming game-streaming service, plus some random thoughts after playing the games, asking the game developers what they thought, and taking the pulse of the crowd.
• The Most Violent Video Games Ever Made Ready for a bloody good time? We dissect some of the goriest video games ever made.

Gaming Reviews

• Fire Words for IPhone Fire Words is one of the first games I installed on my iPhone when the App Store launched last year. Countless games have come...
• Hands On with Nintendo's DSi Gaming Handheld Nintendo's recently released DSi handheld has a host of new features. Senior Writer Darren Gladstone tells you what works, and what doesn't.
• Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3 Armored attack bears. Time traveling Russians. Sarcastic female commandos. Yes, the mirthfully bizarre and chronologically...
• Bobby Carrot Forever for IPhone Bobby Carrot Forever is a tough game to peg. Visually, the pretty landscapes and cartoony characters seem focused on children...
• TNA Wrestling iPhone Review A wrestling role-playing game? On your iPhone? Strange, but true--and it is actually fun. Read the review.