As [Brad] over at the LVL1 hackerspace watched his friend build a Laser tag/tazer mashup for Makerfaire Detroit 2012, he noticed these new laser tag guns were really cool. These Light Strike guns have ...

Laser tag is rarely (if ever) referred to as “The Sport of Kings”, but is a fun pastime nonetheless. While some are content to play with off-the-shelf toys, others prefer to make their own gear to ...

Children growing up in the 1950s and 1960s often entertained themselves by playing “cowboys and Indians” with cap guns and rubber arrows. In the 1970s and 1980s, air-powered rifles filled with ...

Nerf blasters are two things at once. First, and most obviously, they're fake firearms for flinging foam at your friends and foes. But secondly, they're also ingenious works of engineering, with ...

If the only thing missing from your summer is the ability to play laser tag at home without a vest, then Hasbro has got you covered. Today, the company announced its Nerf Laser Ops Pro blaster line, ...

When I think of laser tag, I think of all the times as a kid I was warned about playing with the plastic guns outside for fear that the police would see the “realistic” weapon and shoot me dead in ...

When his parents denied him a Super NES, he got mad. When they traded a prize Sega Genesis for a 2400 baud modem, he got even. Years of Internet shareware, eBay'd possessions and video game testing ...

Laser tag offers people of all ages a safe way to play an adrenaline-fueled tactical battle game. Rather than using potentially painful paintballs, these guns use infrared light to track hits. Most ...

Nerf's doing it, and so is Hasbro, but there's plenty of room for other folks in the laser tag market, and Hex3 is a startup looking to get in on the action. Called the AppTag Laser Blaster, it ...

Janet Coombs and her son Ryan Rinebold pose with laser tag guns near Stoltze Lumber Co. land they lease near Whitefish for Flashpoint Outdoor Laser Tag. Flashpoint is open year round and can set up at ...