Use voice commands to play better in Mass Effect 3 (video)
Mass Effect 3 is one of the hot new video games coming this spring from BioWare, whose previous two installments have sold millions of...
News Blips: Max Payne 3 delayed, SOPA delayed, and cloud gaming’s future costs
The real reason for Max Payne 3's delay: Rockstar's artists were ordered to redesign the titular protagonist's tank top for a more believably off-white...
Video Blips: Street Fighter X Tekken, Starhawk, and Sherlock Holmes
I always wonder what happened to the monks managing the obligatory Buddhist temple and Shinto shrine arenas in fighitng games — unless the fighters...
A few reasons to have hope for Club Nintendo
Club Nintendo does have some cool rewards, but the items are highly subjective. Unless you’re 12 or into stickers, posters, and other Nintendo-related swag,...
Which anti-SOPA game companies are fighting back, and how
Bungie Bungie, creators of the record-breaking Halo series, made the following statement on its official forums: At Bungie we tend to keep our collective...
Alienware launches its $699 X51 gamer PC for the mass market
Dell’s Alienware division announced a gamer PC for the rest of us at an event in San Francisco tonight. At $699, the X51 gamer...
Six million LittleBigPlanet user levels created; here are some of the best
Marriage Proposal Another early LittleBigPlanet creation, this one has a particularly happy ending. Created as a playable marriage proposal, YouTube user Jed05’s girlfriend luckily...
SOPA controversy creates rival to game industry group ESA; LFG aims to be “the NRA for gamers”
Frustrated by the Entertainment Software Association‘s (ESA) support of the proposed anti-piracy SOPA and PIPA legislation, Red 5 Studios CEO Mark Kern has founded...
Mig33 launches Twitter-like Miniblog for emerging mobile markets
Mig33, which operates mobile social networks in emerging markets, is launching a new Twitter-like social communication service called the “Mig33 miniblog.” The move represents...
How to teach history (and lots more) with Minecraft
Randy Fujimoto has a mission statement on his website: “A quest to transform education through game-based learning.” That’s a big idea, to be sure,...