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Sure, being able to call upon the Force at will and twirl my lightsaber aplenty is always appealing, but brokering tenuous peace agreements – which always seem to break down during the negotiation phase – and fetching foolhardy novitiates isn't my idea of being a hardened warrior of the Jedi order.

Last week I profiled Gerard Williams, aka The HipHopGamer, a member of the amateur video-game media who has garnered an appreciable amount of press...

When you name a game something like Donkey Kong Country Returns, you build up some very specific expectations in the minds of your future...

When I was a child, the best Christmas gifts I ever received were a copy of the Star Wars Trilogy boxed set and a...

Characters suddenly become unplayable as the player becomes aware of new pieces of information. Armed with that knowledge, she embarks on the next quest...

Open-world games operate on laws that are an amalgam of game tropes and simulated agents. The massive single-player RPG The Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion is a...