Don’t look for a Pac-Man machine in 
Marshfield, Mass. And forget finding a place to play Golden Tee as well.
Located 25 miles southeast of Boston, the small city of 4,297 is the only town in America where arcade games are illegal. And it likes it that way.
The video game industry is littered with 
terrible gadgets. But while the gaudiest gear — Nintendo’s ROB the Robot and PowerGlove, or the original Xbox’s massive Steel Battalion setup — score headlines, it’s the smaller bits and baubles that can really make you crazy.
Intended to make your gaming experience smoother, easier, smarter, or prettier, the worst extras often wind up spending more time in a drawer than your hands. Here are a few pieces of gaming hardware you should probably play without:
Washington D.C. is about to be invaded 
by a who’s who of video game icons.
The Smithsonian American Art Museum has unveiled the 80 fan-selected titles that will be on display at an upcoming exhibition on the art of video games — and a lot of familiar names appear on the list.
Even the unfortunate people whose personal 
information was stolen in the great PlayStation data heist of 2011 have to feel a little bad for Sony these days – or maybe some Schadenfreude.
Between the initial hack — in which 77 million accounts were compromised — the continued disruption of the PlayStation Network and the subsequent discovery that another 25 million accounts had been hacked, the once proud tech giant has been brought to its knees. Can it rise again?
With a new console set to be released
next year, Nintendo has cut the price of the Wii.
Beginning May 15, the system will drop from $200 to $150 and will come bundled with hit title Mario Kart along with the Wii racing wheel peripheral. At the same time, the company plans to launch a ‘greatest hits’ line of games — called Nintendo Selects — that will cost $20 instead of the usual $50.
L.A. Noire may be a video game, but it 
sure does have its toes in a lot of ponds.
One week after being showcased at the Tribeca Film Festival, the game is exploring the literary world, gathering a collection of noted crime novelists to contribute short stories set in the game’s universe for an eBook that will come out next month.
Fallout fans jonesing for more time
in the wasteland are about to get their wish.
Bethesda Softworks has announced plans to roll out three new add-on packs for Fallout: New Vegas this summer. Each will come out simultaneously for the Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 and PC.
The data breach into the PlayStation 
Network continues to worsen.
Sony announced Monday it had discovered another 24.6 million accounts had been hacked, this time in the company’s PC online gaming division. The intrusion is on top of the 77 million accounts that Sony has previously acknowledged were breached.
Come this summer, that trip to the corner 
convenience store for a Slim Jim and a Coke will also give you the chance to check out the newest video game releases.
Redbox, whose vending machine rental kiosks revolutionized the film industry, is moving into the video game space with plans to begin offering titles at 21,000 locations starting June 17.
While the 3DS shot out of the gate at 
launch, the system lost its breath pretty quickly.
Nintendo has acknowledged that sales of its new portable gaming system have slowed down — and it’s not entirely sure why.
Chris Morris: Journalist 