Spartan Echo

   REDMOND, Wash. (AP) — Microsoft thinks it has the one. The company revealed the Xbox One, its next-generation entertainment console, during a presentation Tuesday, May 21, at its headquarters in Redmond, Wash. Don Mattrick, Microsoft’s president of interactive entertainment business, called it an “all-in-one home entertainment system.” He said the company has spent the past [...]

  HAVANA (AP) — Fight your way through mangrove swamps shoulder-to-shoulder with bearded guerrillas clad in the olive green of Fidel Castro and Ernesto “Che” Guevara. Your mission: Topple 1950s Cuban dictator Fulgencio Batista. Out to foil you are helmeted Batista soldiers and police in mustard-yellow uniforms who pop out from behind trees and fire [...]

  SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The beloved but long-gone video game franchise “Thief” is sneaking into the next generation of video games. A highly stylized fourth “Thief” game is set to debut next year on the PC, PlayStation 4 and other next-generation consoles. For the developers at Eidos Montreal, crafting a next-gen “Thief” game means using souped-up [...]

  PHILADELPHIA (AP) — Philadelphia is getting ready for a supersized game of “Pong” — on the side of a skyscraper. The classic Atari video game will be re-created later this month on the facade of the 29-story Cira Centre, where hundreds of embedded LED lights will replicate the familiar paddles and ball. Organizers expect hundreds [...]

  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Easter Bunny, dozens of professional athletes and thousands of children were hippity-hopping across the White House’s South Lawn Monday, March25, as President Barack Obama and his family were leading the annual Easter Egg Roll. The theme of this year’s event is “Be Healthy, Be Active, Be You!” — fitting with first [...]

  SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — It’s back. The virtual reality headset, the gizmo that was supposed to seamlessly transport wearers to three-dimensional virtual worlds, has made a remarkable return at this year’s Game Developers Conference, an annual gathering of video game makers in San Francisco. After drumming up hype over the past year and banking [...]

   Blockbuster game franchises like Epic Games’ “Gears of War” don’t just fade away — even if the primary antagonist, the voracious Locust Horde, was obliterated at the end of the initial trilogy. Not to worry. With “Gears of War: Judgment” (for Xbox 360, $59.99), Microsoft takes players back in time to the beginning of [...]

   Kratos is angry. That’s all you need to know about the motivation of the durable protagonist of Sony’s “God of War” series. Yes, the Spartan warrior got tricked into murdering his wife and daughter, but he’s been rampaging across ancient Greece for five games now. Given the thousands of corpses he’s left behind, you’d [...]