Yahtzee decided which game is best - Prototype or InFamous - by judging pictures of the games' main characters wearing women's lingerie. No seriously.
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Phillip Levin offers some advice to Capcom on how to reboot the Resident Evil series.
The fine print in exhibitor contracts for major trade shows is getting more and more dangerous. Here are the six worst examples from the current crop.
Champions Online has an incredibly robust character creation mode, and a bunch of really nifty ideas under the hood. Unfortunately, it needs a lot more polish before it's ready to go anywhere.
It's surprising how after a life spent slaying virtual monsters, we still know so little about how to handle death.
Downloadable content is a natural fit for multiplayer games, but falls short when it comes to the single-player experience.
Nathan Meunier goes behind the scenes to see how indie game classic Cave Story is being reborn on WiiWare.
Games tend to come apart at the seams if you don't play them the way you're supposed to, but some of the most enjoyable games are the ones that break in entertaining ways.
This week in gaming, we look back at Atari's First Computer and recall fond memories of trying to save lemmings from certain doom.
This week, we look at tragic love affairs between Atari and Nintendo, EA and Marvel, and Uwe Boll and good cinema.
Japanese developers make some of the most lush, creative games available...so why can't they do decent online?
This week in gaming history, we look at how scandals rocked San Andreas and Azeroth, and how West Virginia ushered in a P.E. "Revolution."
This week in gaming history, we head to the open sea as both pirate and scuba-diver, and wish a veteran Sim-game designer a happy birthday.
This week in gaming history teaches us that there are two ways to approach videogames: lawsuits and postage.
Looking back at our record of published material, we began to see that certain core values, unexpressed but ever present, had shaped which articles we'd published and which topics we'd covered. We resolved that in the New Year, we would compile and publish these values in a written statement. We'd clarify our biases. We'd express our positions. We'd be open about what we stood for, and encourage others to be, too.
These are our positions. This is what we stand for.
