No one is playing Hunted: The Demon's Forge. No one has heard of Hunted: The Demon's Forge. It's a forgettable, poorly made co-op game that tries to put a Gears of War-inspired cover system in a fantasy RPG. I have nothing but pity for anyone who bought and played Hunted: The Demon's Forge.

I'm saying that I feel very sorry for myself for having bought and played Hunted: The Demon's Forge.

We have finally reached that point in the summer where all the local schools are out. Swarms of children roam free; already, their vacation-slackened brains have started atrophying, their feral instincts taking over. Ice-cream-truck drivers patrol the streets with caution, fearing the packs of errant urchins who might ambush them.

It's Boston. We know a little bit about revolution here. We've also got a pretty good handle on innovation, meaning we know that whole "tea-in-the-harbor" thing probably won't work more than once. So how can you get people talking?

Enter TEDxBoston, a conference that brings local luminaries to the stage for a chance to share their revolutionary ideas and inspire others.

Google's Tuesday launch of its new social network Google+ has had the Internet abuzz (not to be confused with the clunky Google Buzz communication platform that never really took off, was pretty much forgotten about, and apparently still exists).

Buzz didn't turn out to be the Twitter-killer some initially hailed it as, and its precursor Google Wave didn't really do much other than confuse people

Whether it's the clacking of the Orange Line as it comes above ground or the unmistakable screeching of a B train pulling into Park Street, there's a rhythm to the T. And public transit in Boston is an emotional experience -- an express train can make your day; a missed one can break your heart.

Where there's rhythm and emotion, poetry logically follows, so a collection of local writers took to the stage at the Cantab Lounge Wednesday for Boston Poetry Slam's tribute to the MBTA.

We've always known that robots would take over the world someday. And thanks to this fascinating, slightly horrifying presentation shown at last Tuesday at TEDxBoston, seems clear that we're just a little bit closer to our inevitable droid-dominated future.

Or at least the droid-dominated future of online commerce: Mick Mountz, the founder of the Woburn-based Kiva Systems, has enlisted an army of robots to take over order-fulfillment for such online-retail behemoths as Zappos, Staples, and Diapers.

Post-holiday-weekend lag got you down? Did last weekend's boozing, barbecuing and fireworking set your expectations so high such that the prospect of a return the weekend routine of eating ice cream and watching True Blood suddenly seems so banal?

Fear not, because we have not one but TWO awesome weekend-long cons to save you from the brink of desperation.

In 1893, British photographer William Friese-Greene filed a patent for a 3D film viewing process that placed two images side by side, creating a "joined" three-dimensional image through a stereoscope. Now it's 2011, and you can have movies, Youtube videos and even pornography pop out at you.

The 3D trend has expanded past the screen and become, what some have said, the future of gaming as well.

Some of the best things in life are free, and I don't mean the taste of new toothpaste or laughing with friends. Sure, those are great, but that warm fuzzy feeling we call happiness can be achieved with more creative ways, like scoring free Slurpee's, learning how to make art out of trash and attending a sand sculpture festival.

Comic Con 2011 begins today in San Diego, as if every nerd were not already painfully (or joyfully, if attending) aware. Laser Orgy is here to rub salt into the wound by reminding our readers and ourselves of all the amazing things we are missing.

The end of the Harry Potter film series means the end of many things, among them its licensed video game franchise (Or does it?) HP's future might seem tenuous with the final film's release. But it's the perfect opportunity to look back at the best and worst of Electronic Arts' Harry Potter gaming franchise.

Remember that Harry Potter thing everyone was so crazy over? There were a bunch of books, or something? Then some movies? Well, you had better remember, because it is not going away. This week, Boston has more than one Potter-based celebration. The Harvard Museum of Natural History has an exhibit, and wizard rock band Harry and the Potters are playing a free concert in Harvard Square.

I thought I'd never live to write a headline quite like that. Sometimes, the Japanese come up with something so baffling -- yet genius -- that there's nothing to do but just gape. And it's no surprise that Suda51 of Grasshopper Studios, who is credited with the weird and violent Killer7 and No More Heroes, is the guy who plans to reinvent the zombie genre with Lollipop Chainsaw