An ex-Gamestop employee explains how Gamestop truly operates.
While consoles seem to dominate the gaming landscape now more than ever – as indicated by once PC-only developers like id Software, Valve, Crytek and Epic flocking to consoles – Lorne Lanning of Oddworld fame actually views consoles as a significant problem for this industry.
As the best video game in 4.5 billion years finally launches this weekend, PM's resident geek crawls the best of Spore Creature Creator for the handful of otherworldly invaders, from Predator to the bloodsucks of H.G. Wells, that will bring the customized gameplay back into this world.
Given that South Park revolves around four pop-culture savvy eight-year-olds, how could they avoid addressing game culture? It shouldn’t come as a surprise that our favorite episodes revolve around skewering this hobby o’ ours, so we thought it apt to chronicle our favorite South Park moments for all the internet to bitch about.
Gears Of War 2 is going to be great, right? Huge battlefields comprising hundreds of warriors. New levels of devastation that genuinely elevate things to the state of all-out war. A truly, truly epic fight for the future of the planet. It absolutely cannot fail to be fun. Read on to find out why we've been playing the bad guys all along.
It's not rare to hear talk about the pressure developers put on game writers for favorable coverage. What is unusual is hearing someone from the other side describe how he or she can break game writers... and why they think it's perfectly ok to do so.
Last month, VG247 had a super secret Rockstar source telling them that the Grand Theft Auto IV DLC wouldn't be available until January. Now, Eurogamer has a different super secret source saying that things are still on track for a November release. We don't know which one is telling the truth, and we don't care ... we just want one of them to love
Here’s a bunch of bunch of corporate logos infested with gamey nonsense. Because it’s fun.
A few suggestions to overcome chronic irritants in video games.
If you want to turn your lady friend into a gaming fan, here’s some advice from Xbox Live community manager Christa Phillips: Don’t be a jerk and don't make her play "Halo".
Nobody really expected Lego Star Wars to be as good as it was, or to sell as well as it did, when the game dropped in 2005 - but developer Traveller's Tales surprised us all by turning what should have been the ultimate crappy licensed game into a fun, well-designed runaway hit. Here are 10 other lego games we'll love to see.
One of the the biggest selling points of Nintendo's Wii video game console since its launch nearly two years ago has been that it was the lowest-priced of the trio of next-generation machines, which also includes Microsoft's Xbox 360 and Sony's PlayStation 3.
Ever wondered where Epic Games drew from when designing “Gears of War”’s over-the-top blood and guts? We have the answer: cult classic 80s horror films.
While we've seen countless story regarding children using Grand Theft Auto as their inspiration to do wrong, it's extremely rare that we see news about GTA being cited as a cause for good. It happened on August 27th around 9pm, as the Norris family of five was heading to Diamond, Illinois to visit relatives. Their 2000 Jeep Grand Cherokee swerved o
For Mac users, one of the best pieces of news of the year was the announcement in January by Electronic Arts that it would be releasing a version of its long-awaited evolution game, Spore, on their beloved platform.
Spore is arriving more than a year late, which EA attributes to the need to polish the game and work on features such as social networking. And besides development work, the company has been grappling with a tough marketing task: explaining what Spore is all about.
The story of developing BioShock is an epic one. It took a visionary to make the creative choices to guide the game, and an incredibly talented and hardworking team to bring that vision to life.