Subject: Sony PlayStation

• Army recruiters plagued by fat kids

  Lieutenant Colonel Eric Reinkober, the head dude at the U.S. Army Recruiting Battalion Kansas City office, hates the term "Army Fat Camp." But he grudgingly admits that, because of America's ever-plumping obesity problem, the upper echelons of the U.S. military have started discussing the possibility of creating a special program within basic training for recruits who come in a little heavy.

  February 11, 2009

• Axes to Grind

  The Guitar Hero frenzy careens toward overkill.

  January 24, 2008

• Xmas Present & Past

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

  December 20, 2007

• Natural Disaster

  January 18, 2007

• Hands Off

  November 16, 2006

• Glacial Profiling

  August 24, 2006

• Slithering Heights

  August 17, 2006

• Vince Charming

  Vaughn ensures an amicable Break-Up.

  June 1, 2006

• Ghouls on the Go

  March 9, 2006

• X-Man Reunited

  February 9, 2006

• This Game Bites

  December 29, 2005

• Generation Next

  Microsoft's Xbox 360 fires the first shot in the next-gen console war.

  December 29, 2005

• A Fan's Notes

  Ideas that were forgotten but not gone in 2003.

  December 11, 2003

• This Bytes

  If they'd never met Joel Kocher, Bryan Heitman and Gabe Murphy still might have lost millions. But maybe it wouldn't have hurt so bad.

  June 12, 2003

• Various Artists

  Tomb Raider (Elektra)

  June 28, 2001

• Bad Aim

  At the Gates, a gripping showdown is bungled by a love triangle.

  March 15, 2001

• Hot Wheels

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

  August 17, 2000

• Fatman and slobbin'

  DC Comics places its superheroes in the RealWorlds

  April 20, 2000

• Santa's shake-down man, Krampus, should visit ... William Threatt Jr.

  Bill Threatt ... meet Krampus​Kids in the United States have a sanitized view of Santa Claus. Sure, he allegedly makes a list dividing the naughty from the nice, but, practically speaking, the only punishment for greedy little brats is not getting the latest PlayStation Whatever. European folklore is far different. For children in countries like Germany and Austria, Old Saint Nick has a terrifying companion who kicks ass and takes names. Krampus, a creepy demon with goatlike horns and mang

  December 21, 2009