The Patchwork Game
What if you could take the best blurbs from cheap games and combine them to describe one title? I'd say the resulting game would be worth at least ten dollars, but you can decide for yourself.
Multiple Sentence Review: Dragon Knight Saga
Someone forgot to tell these guys to stop after making the action part of an action/RPG, so they went ahead and made one of the best RPGs of the year.
If It Was A Good Game...
If Gran Turismo 5 was a good game, a collision between two cars wouldn't sound like the side of a plastic trash can being lightly tapped with a bongo.
Kinect Launch Roundup
The Kinect is finally here, and Microsoft's hands-free peripheral been getting everyone so excited about motion-based gaming that a few people momentarily remembered the Playstation Move.
A Link To The Past - Easy Mode
Is Link's uncle just a helpful guy, or an enabler?
You're Ruining Games
In the future, all gamers will be divided into two categories: Those who have an inflatable boat in their living room, and those who should kill themselves.
Multiple Sentence Review: Dead Rising 2
Holding my daughter close, I tell her that she means the world to me, and that I will always protect her from the madness brewing outside. I am wearing superhero boots, overalls, and an oversized Blanka mask that covers my entire head. A bloody fireaxe rests in my hand.
The Greatest Adventure Games Of All Time
After fading into obscurity in the late 1990's, adventure games made a comeback in recent years and are poised to become more dominant than ever. In honor of this fine genre, I humbly submit my favorite adventure games of all time.
What Are Valve's Three Big Surprises?
What surprises was Valve hinting at in the newest PC Gamer? I have some guesses that are uninformed, highly speculative, and sure to be completely wrong. Thankfully, those are the best kind.
Fallout: New Vegas' Hardcore Mode
If there's one thing video game players love, it's being badass, unstoppable gamelords that blow through every supposed "challenge" thrown their way in record time with a cocky grin on their Gamer Grub-encrusted mouths while weaker nerds toil in obscurity.
Translating The Kinect Patent Application
We dig through Microsoft's patents for the Kinect and uncover a whole mess of previously unknown tidbits about this remarkable piece of technology.
Patch Notes: Red Dead Redemption
Fixed a bug which caused skinned/harvested animals to get up and whimper, following the player even after console resets, reloading of previous saves, or starting new games.
The Internet Hates Dragon Age 2
The internet is only good for a handful of things, and one of them is ruining discussion through the use of hyperbole and emotionally driven leaps of logic. Take, for instance, the reaction to every other word from this week's press release announcing Dragon Age 2.
Puzzle Agent's Toughest Puzzles
Nelson Tethers: Puzzle Agent is the newest project from Telltale Games (Sam & Max episodes, Tales Of Monkey Island), promising to occupy a space between Professor Layton, Fargo and David Lynch. So, basically Doom with guns.
What If?
Scholars define history as "things and stuff happening and then time passes so we remember it". Makes sense to a thinking man, I suppose, but what do those lofty words mean for you and I?
Iwata Asks: Super Mario Galaxy 2
In a regular feature for the company's website, president Satoru Iwata asks key Nintendo figures about the process of creating games and hardware. Today he sits down with Mario Galaxy 2 designer (and series creator) Shigeru Miyamoto.
Choice Choosing In Alpha Protocol
Alpha Protocol is an upcoming spy RPG from some of the people who brought you Star Wars: Knights Of The Old Republic 2, Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines, Lionheart: Legacy Of The Crusader, and even some games that were mostly finished when they went on sale.
Arcade Intros For Modern Games
Everything you need to know before jumping into a game, in one screen of blocky and vaguely incorrect text.
X-COM: Disappointment From The Deep
The very silly news that 2K Marin is making X-COM into a "story-based" first person shooter that promises to be "immersive" and a "gripping narrative ride".
The Inaugural Bicentennial VGA Reader Challenge
Every two hundred years, readers of this feature will be given a chance to test their mettle and possibly be immortalized in the pantheon of digital warriors - masters of power ups and high scores and extra men.
Bad Luck In Bad Company 2
You fall behind by one point, and half your team switches to the winning side. Don't expect any reply but "cry more, n00b" when you ask to even things out. How they know you're actually crying in real life is a mystery.
Sony's Biggest PS3 Blunders
From this week's worldwide glitchtacular to the GameSony Bestdevice, join us on a journey through the most boneheaded moves Sony has made in this console generation.
Civilization V: Exclusive Details!
Now it's 2010, and thanks to recent innovations in Nvidia 3D Vision and the incredibly useful Games For Windows Live, we can now use hexagons - in this case, six-sided ones.
The Definitive Mario Timeline
While Nintendo has never provided an official timeline for the many adventures of Mario, forensic science holds the key to piecing together the complicated life of one of this generation's most iconic figures.
Star Trek Online Retailer-Exclusive Bonuses
Become the ultimate captain with exclusive access to Big Head Mode! Everyone's head will be larger.
Mass Effect 2's Biggest Improvements
Miranda Lawson (portrayed by Yvonne Strahovski from Chuck) has a glorious mane that cannot be contained by the infinite reaches of space, let alone a standard-issue N7 helmet.
