Should Japanese Games…Be Less Japanese?
Keiji Inafune sounds like a lone Horseman of the Apocalypse for the Japanese gaming industry if you've followed his press over the past year....
Review: Metroid Other M
It's a Metroid game developed by Team Ninja. When Nintendo dropped this (morph ball) bomb on us at E3 2009, I didn't know what the guys who made "jubbling" a verb with their Dead or Alive fighting/volleyball games would do with our beloved Samus.
Reviews Spotlight: BioShock, Comic Jumper, and BOGOs
Fears are preeminent in this week's Reviews Spotlight. Bitmobbers display their acute phobias of water, women, and Matrix filmmakers the Wachowskis — and in some cases,...
A Brief History of Stealth Games
Stealth-action video games fill out a genre that asks its players to surreptitiously navigate through an enemy-occupied area while maintaining discretion and avoiding detection....
Dungeons: Tourism Never Was this Evil
Greetings, fellow dungeon taskmaster! Are your skull-adorned candleabras not providing enough visual zest? Does your blood-filled reflecting pool tiredly drip when it should boldly...
Proper Villainy
Considering how many games exist for the promise of bringing you exciting action and adventure, it's a shame how few of them have memorable...
News Blips: Old Controllers Support First Ammendment, Official Shenmue Social Network Game, and More
To combat California's violent video game bill, the Video Game Voters Network wants you to send in your broken controllers. Never mind that most...
The Curdled Milk of Human Kindness: How Folding@home Turned Friends against One Another
The gradual perversion and mutation of Folding@home didn't take very long for me. At first, I thought the initiative was a remarkable way for...
Location game MyTown now lets users check-in around the globe … sort of
MyTown, a mobile check-in game for iPhone and iPod Touch, today announced its global availability. While the company claims global access, it’s really just...
Lord of the Rings Online doubles its revenue after going free-to-play
Turbine’s online role-playing game Lord of the Rings Online has doubled its revenue since it moved from a subscription model to a free-to-play model...