I totally didn’t see this one coming, but GameFly is trying their hand at kiosk video game rentals by installing touchscreen boxes at select 7-Elevens throughout Southern California. Unlike their core business, which requires a membership, the G-Box kiosk just requires a credit card and a burning desire for a video game at any given moment since rentals cost $2 a day; that’s twice the price of their intro membership. The G-Boxes - don’t even get me started on the name - will contains classics

When you’ve bought a new console, what’s the first thing you do? Charge the batteries, slot in a new game or extensively read the multi-lingual manual? For some avid YouTube vloggers or amateur photographers, the sight of fresh shrink wrap and the smell of a new product instinctively lead them to their digital camera or camcorder. Photographs and videos of new console emerging from boxes are about as titillating as paint thinner, but these gadget-stripteases are porn for geeks, with both hobby

I initially started writing this review in response to some negative reaction I’ve read to Punch-Out!! and to Nintendo overall, even drawing comparisons between the company and Canadian rockers Sloan. But after wading through thousands of my own words I realized that a forced 1990s music history lesson had as little place in a game review as arbitrary numerical scores and choice quotes pulled from the backs of boxes. Punch-Out!! is the successor to Super Punch-Out!! , itself a successor to

The gig: President and chief executive of Broadcom Corp., the Irvine semiconductor company that supplied more than a billion chips last year for cellphones, set-top boxes, televisions, computers and the Nintendo Wii. Broadcom made $215 million in profit last year on nearly $4.7 billion in revenue.