Jack TramielLegendary entrepreneur Jack Tramiel, founder of Commodore and a pioneer in personal computing, died Sunday at the age of 83 in California.

Born Jacek Trzmiel in Lodz, Poland, in 1928, he was interned with his family at a Jewish ghetto after the start of World War II.  Later, Tramiel's family was sent to the Auschwitz concentration camp.  Relocated to another camp at Ahlem — where his father died — Tramiel was rescued by U.S. troops in April 1945.

Having watched fans flock to NBC to flash-mob protest the apparent cancellation of critical-darling 'Community', comedian Joel McHale knows a thing or two about the power of a viral movement.

Now, he's loaning some of that knowledge to Nintendo. Sort of.

The war on terror has taken an odd -- and kind of fun -- turn.

The U.S. government has hired a white hat hacker collective to dig through used video game systems in an effort to track down bad guys.

The Navy is leading the charge in this hunt, last week hiring California-based Obscure Technologies to head up the "Gaming Systems Monitoring and Analysis" project. The company will be paid just over $177,000 for the job of developing tools to extract sensitive information from six modern gaming systems and examine how it might be exchanged through messaging and chat networks.

They might not have any brains, but zombies sure are persistent.

Take, for instance, the undead stars of PopCap's legendary tower defense game, Plants Vs. Zombies. Since first clawing their way out of the ground in 2009, they've chomped through PCs, snacked on Macs and shambled over to smartphones, trashing gardens left and right. We keep killing them, but they keep springing back to life -- most recently, on your PlayStation Vita.

John RomeroJohn Romero, one of the chief architects of the seminal first-person shooter Doom, is returning to the genre that made him a celebrity.

It's been a dozen years since Romero has made a shooter, but in an interview with Eurogamer, he confirmed plans to return to making action games, though he's not ready to divulge a lot of details yet.

"Yes, I'm definitely going to be making another shooter and it will be on PC first," he said. "I don't want to talk about the details but I already know what it is. I've already kind of designed the thing and it's pretty cool -- though of course, I am going to say that. I think it's a neat design, I haven't seen the design anywhere else."

Sick of fighting off wave after wave of baddies in tower defense games? How about giving the towers a taste of their own medicine?

That's precisely the plan in Anomaly Warzone Earth, the world's first tower offense game.

A pesky alien horde has taken over Earth's cities, setting up giant, ugly, laser-y turrets all over the place. Your job? Blow them back to their homeworld by guiding a squad of armored vehicles through the streets. A variety of power-ups will help you heal, camouflage and upgrade units as you carve a path through the carnage.

Fallout's mascot, Pip-Boy"War… war never changes."

Set the WABAC machine to 1997.  Bill Clinton's in the White House, the Spice Girls are tearing up the pop charts, and a gritty post-apocalyptic role-playing game is dazzling critics across the PC gaming world.  The game's name?  Fallout.

Finding secret features of your DVDs, games, and websites is no easy task

By Mike Wehner, Tecca

An Easter egg hunt is always a good time for kids and adults alike. And while finding a colorful canister filled with candy or other goodies is always exciting, "digital Easter eggs" can be just as enjoyable. Many games, DVDs, and even websites contain Easter eggs — a term used for hidden extras can be discovered as long as you know where to look. In celebration of the upcoming Easter holiday, we've compiled five of our favorite virtual secrets that are just waiting to be found!