Online shooter Dust 514 to require a $10 “cover charge”
Gamers interested in Dust 514, an online first-person shooting game that ties in with the EVE Online universe, will have to pay a “cover...
Reviews Spotlight: Duke Nukem Forever, Lego Star Wars 3, L.A. Noire, and The Phantom Hourglass
The Reviews Spotlight returns to give you a snapshot of what our community reviewers are saying about some of today's games. This week we've...
Nintendo’s glacial eStore and Virtual Console release schedule actually encourages piracy
Sorry, Operation Rainfall — Nintendo seems flood-proof. Let’s get this straight first: I don’t advocate piracy. I pay for my entertainment. Sometimes I even...
News Blips: Mainstream media as a tool, phones might outstrip consoles, and Witcher 2 lawsuit
If games need an extra visibility boost within the media, I hope they make more commercials like this gripping paragon of theater. News Blips:...
Video Blips: Rage, PlanetSide 2, The Lord of the Rings: War in the North, and more
I wonder why games continue portraying the government's final solution against an apocalyptic cataclysm as a failed initiative to store a portion of humanity...
EA’s Secret World online game is nothing like World of Warcraft
Electronic Arts already has a game like Blizzard Entertainment’s supergiant online game, World of Warcraft, in the works — but it looks like the...
Alan Wake vs. Alone in the Dark: The Case for “B-Games”
Alan Wake and Alone in the Dark are two games that are surprisingly similar. Both are western-developed survival horror games of the current console...
EA’s next mobile lineup features multi-platform multiplayer mayhem (video)
The next version of Electronic Arts’ mobile Scrabble game will let players compete against each other across multiple devices and platforms — at the...
Nielsen: games are the most popular smartphone apps
More than half of all smartphone owners played games and racked up about 8 hours of play time each month in the second quarter...
News Blips: Deus Ex lawsuit, Hideo Kojima on L.A. Noire face tech, Wii U’s online presence, and more
Lawsuits come and go, but this one holds special significance: I can finally joke that Square Enix's neural net got broken by rebellious hackers. Wait,...