2008 DS Summer Games Preview
Posted June 17, 2008 - Summer, at least for us U.S. folks, begins June 20 and ends September 20. In between stuffing out faces with hamburgers and checking out hot babes in bikinis,...

Bizarre Portable Game Commercials: Episode Two
Posted July 7, 2008 - Atari Lynx This commercial is awesome for three reasons. First, it pays homage to one of our favorite pastimes, playing video games on the toilet....

Interview: Tony Hawk's Proving Ground DS
Posted October 16, 2007 - Vicarious Visions has been making handheld Tony Hawk titles for several years now, but the company still manages to surprise with each year's new iteration....

Into the Past: Tetris and How the Pieces Fell Into Place
Posted April 27, 2006 - How could someone as simple as one man craft such an elegant time-waster that would take up hours, nay, days and weeks with such a simple puzzle structure?...

Love/Hate: The Phantom Hourglass
Posted January 10, 2008 - Welcome to the first edition of Love/Hate, Modojo's latest weekly column. We're going to let you in on a secret: most game writers have a... (wait for...

Love/Hate: The Simpsons Game
Posted January 25, 2008 - Hate: Stiff Controls Our beloved Simpsons have a long and storied history of awful games. The number one reason most of them fail? Ungodly controls. Just...

Portable Games We Never Thought Would be Good
Posted August 29, 2008 - To be successful, a video game publisher can play it safe and make something everyone wants, or take a risk and dare to try something new. In the portable...

Tetris DS Guide
Posted March 27, 2006 - April 3 - added puzzle mode solutions 51-100 Tetris - It's a name that's virtually synonymous with simplicity, while somehow still remaining to be...

Top Ten Handhelds
Posted June 20, 2008 - Although Nintendo has dominated the handheld scene, it isn't the only company that made cool systems. Behold the top ten greatest portables of all time....

Top Ten Portable Puzzle Games
Posted June 19, 2008 - 10. Echochrome (SCEA/PlayStation Portable downloadable) This perplexing, mind-bending puzzle game requires you to move figures around impressively...