One 
of gaming’s greatest mysteries might soon be uncovered.
You’ve likely heard the tale before: Millions of unsold copies of the disastrous ET: The Extraterrestrial game for the Atari 2600 lie buried in a New Mexico landfill. Despite a slew of believers and evidence supporting the story, doubters remain. But in the next few months, we’ll have the answer once and for all.
The 
history of Star Wars games is filled with hits and misses. For every Battlefront, there’s a Masters of Teras Kasi.
But Bioware’s Knights of the Old Republic, released in 2003, has always stood head and shoulders above the rest — and now it’s coming to the mobile gaming world.
Monopoly 
is one of the most beloved board games of all time, so you’d think we’d all know how to play it correctly.
Turns out we don’t.
When 
you’re creating a new way of storing and processing data for global business infrastructure, a little fun can go a long way toward relieving the pressure. No one knows that better than Doug Cutting, chief architect of Cloudera and one of the creators of the curiously named Hadoop.
When he was creating the open source software that supports the processing of large data sets, Cutting knew the project would need a good name. Fortunately, he had one up his sleeve—thanks to his son.
Peter 
Molyneux is more than a legendary video game developer. It turns out he’s also equal parts Willy Wonka and Ryan Seacrest.
Six months ago, Molyneux released an experimental game named Curiosity to the app store . The game was simply a giant virtual cube that millions of players could pick away at. Molyneux teased that the cube held a “life-changing” prize for the lucky person who reached the center. This weekend, that prize was revealed: God status in Molyneux’s next game, Godus. And the winner was an 18-year old from Edinburgh, Scotland.
Nintendo 
has seen its share of rough patches over the years, but the past 12 months have been a doozy.
After revolutionizing the video game industry with the Wii, the company’s follow-up console has consistently failed to connect with core gamers, casual gamers and, perhaps most worrying of all, game creators themselves.
The 
fate of used games on the Xbox One continues to get murkier.
While Microsoft has confirmed its new console will support used games, the methods behind that process have been somewhat confusing thanks to mixed messages from Microsoft executives. But a new report sheds some light on why there hasn’t been a clear answer yet.
Just 
a few years ago, meteorologists regularly shared an inside joke about forecasts: Anything beyond three days is a guess.
But on the heels of this week’s disastrous tornadoes in Moore, Okla., and Hurricane Sandy last October, it has never been more critical to be able to forecast long-range events. Big data analysis is turning the guesswork of yesterday’s meteorology into a more precise and predictive science.
There’s 
a difference between being a Star Wars fan and being a Star Wars fanatic. We’re pretty sure the folks at LEGO fall into the latter camp.
Tourists who wander into Times Square this week are going to be shocked to see a full-sized X-Wing fighter made entirely of LEGO bricks. A stunning 5.3 million of them, to be precise. That makes it the biggest ever, surpassing a LEGO robot at Minnesota’s Mall of America by a good 2 million.
The 
Internet might be a haven for cat lovers, but when it comes to gamers, dogs rule.
Activision has a viral hit on its hands with Call of Duty: Ghosts, but not for the reasons it likely expected. The German Shepherd seen wearing a motion-capture suit in the game’s first official trailers and screenshots has become something of an internet sensation.
Chris Morris: Journalist 