Extra! Extra! Obama Saves Galaxy! Has Sex With Aliens!
Okay, so the title is a little misleading. President Obama has never saved the galaxy, nor has he done the nasty with aliens —...
The Indie Scene: A to Z — All Killer?
In the last Indie Scene, platformers ruled the day. And while I kick off this edition with another hop-n-bopper, we finally spy some new...
10 Characters We Hate to Love (Part Two)
Editor’s note: Omri wraps up his review of gaming’s most charming failures and pests. And he reminded me of one thing: that damn dog...
My Own Alexandria: Keeping a Video Game Library
Editor’s note: Brian’s a collector of games, but not for the reasons you’d think. His thoughtful discussion on why he’s amassed a video game...
Victory: A ranking system for what makes a social game into a blockbuster
Alok Kejriwal, chief executive of Indian game firm Games2Win, shared a couple of interesting charts with me that describe a way to rank social...
How BioWare tries to create realistic human faces in Mass Effect 2 video game (video)
Adrien Cho was the producer in charge of the artists for BioWare’s epic Mass Effect 2 video game, which debuted on Tuesday and has...
EA BioWare’s Mass Effect 2 sci-fi sequel sells more than 2M copies
Electronic Arts can claim that it has one of the first big video game hits of 2010. Mass Effect 2, a sci-fi game made...
U.S. gov. pledges to cut its own greenhouse gas emissions by 28 percent
President Barack Obama announced today that — in accordance with his ambitious plans to battle climate change — the federal government will reduce its...
Guess Who: Round Eleven
OK, eggheads — time to scramble your brain to figure out the mystery video game character below. It’s easy, really — all you have...
The Floating, Ethereal NES Controller
If you angered the Nintendo gods, it’s likely they would send a ghost to haunt you. But what shape would that specter take? How...