As 
cancer began taking its toll on Roberta Firstenberg, it started stealing things she had long loved and taken for granted. Chief among those was the ability to take a simple walk around her yard.
Granddaughter (and game artist) Priscilla Firstenberg, though, managed to outwit the disease and give Roberta a few final strolls using an Oculus Rift headset.
Gamers 
may not be buying a ton of games these days, but they’re sure gobbling up game systems.
Sales of video game hardware in March were up a massive 78 percent in March as compared to a year ago, according to The NPD Group. Console sales more than doubled as demand continues for the Xbox One and PlayStation 4. That surge in hardware sales led to a 3 percent climb in overall sales versus March 2013.
Whether 
due to poor execution, game-crashing bugs, or corner-cutting development, sometimes the game you’ve been looking forward to the most turns out to be a waste of time and money. But nothing’s more wasteful than a great game that never comes out.
No matter how good a game might look in previews, publishers routinely kill off titles for a variety of reasons, often to the consternation of players. The latest victim? World of Darkness, an online vampire game that held tremendous promise. But instead of turning us into undead legends, it’s just another awesome game we’ll never get the chance to play.
The 
breakout star of Call of Duty: Ghosts was the dog. Could the breakout star of the game’s downloadable content be the Doggy Dogg?
Call of Duty: Ghosts, which has been getting stranger with each recent DLC release, has amped up the weirdness with a new ‘voice pack’ featuring none other than the rapper/actor/weed enthusiast.
Whether 
due to poor execution, game-crashing bugs, or corner-cutting development, sometimes the game you’ve been looking forward to the most turns out to be a waste of time and money.
But nothing’s more wasteful than a great game that never comes out. No matter how good a game might look in previews, publishers routinely kill off titles for a variety of reasons, often to the consternation of players. The latest victim? World of Darkness, an online vampire game that held tremendous promise. But instead of turning us into undead legends, it’s just another awesome game we’ll never get the chance to play.
You 
may think you’re a dedicated player of your free-to-play game of choice. But no matter how often you go on raids in Boom Beach or send help requests to Facebook friends in Candy Crush Saga, you won’t come close to Uli Kilian’s dedication.
Kilian, a 3D production director, loves Jurassic Park Builder. But like most free-to-play games, it requires players to check in regularly and tap on a dinosaur to earn in-game currency. The alternative, of course, is to pay real world money, but who wants to do that?
Some 
collectors have paid more than $10,000 to be able to play Nintendo World Championships. Now you can do it for next to nothing. Sort of.
What’s considered one of the rarest game to ever appear on a Nintendo system — if not the entire video game world — is about to become more widely available, though in a slightly different format.
For 
more than 20 years, rumors have flourished: Buried in a New Mexico landfill are millions of unsold copies of E.T.: The Extraterrestrial for the Atari 2600.
Last year, a pair of documentary filmmakers claimed to have finally found the location. On April 26, they’ll start the search — and they’re inviting the general public to come watch.
If 
you’ve spent any time with recent release Dark Souls II, you’ve doubtlessly asked why, exactly, you’re putting yourself through the game’s particular brand of torture.
It’s big, it’s beautiful, and it’s controller-throwingly difficult. To call it challenging is akin to calling this past winter “a bit nippy.” If someone new to gaming were to spend five minutes with it, they’d walk away and never look back.
And that’s exactly how it was designed.
The 
game many people consider to be the best to ever grace the PlayStation 3 is coming to the PlayStation 4.
A ‘remastered’ version of Naughty Dog’s critical and commercial smash The Last of Us goes next-gen this summer for $60.
Chris Morris: Journalist 