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The Best Free-To-Play Games Of 2011: Our Favorite Ways To Waste Time, Not Money
There’s no denying that free-to-play games on the PC have taken over the gaming industry over the past few years. While there…
Cat Plays ‘Fruit Ninja’, is Basically Better than Me
With the holiday season upon us and the iTunes freeze halting any new games or updates from popping up, there’s been a…
Schell Brings Craft Culture To Games With Puzzle Clubhouse
Amid a heyday for commercial video games, a number of designers are looking at ways to democratize games as a medium of…
Sonic the Hedgehog 4: Episode 2 tidbits roll out
Sega Digital Brand Manager Ken Balough stopped by the GameSpot offices to drop off a trailer for… OH MY GAWD, what’s that…
Borderlands 2 Gunzerker Class Detailed
Borderlands 2 is shaping up to be an interesting game, capitalizing on the strengths of its predecessor and throwing some interesting new…
Usability Evaluation For Video Games: Gulfs Of Execution, Evaluation
[In this reprinted #altdevblogaday in-depth piece, European University Cyprus assistant professor Georgios Christou begints to look at how to evaluate the usability…
60beat creates a full gamepad for iOS devices
The idea of a gamepad sticking out of your iPhone may be hilarious, but it’s still not as funny as attempting to…
Happy Holiday Wishes from thatgamecompany
Happy Holidays, PlayStation Bloggers! (Or are readers considered to be “bloggies”?) We just hit a major milestone on Journey, and are super…
Game Music Battle 13: Yuzo Koshiro Special (Ys vs. Streets of Rage 2)
Vote on the work of a composer so great we had to handicap his entries….
Sega Announces ‘Sonic the Hedgehog 4: Episode 2’; Releases Teaser
Hey, remember Sonic the Hedgehog 4: Episode 1? It came out over a year ago, we liked it a lot in our…
Still Don’t Have an iCade? Pick One up From Bed Bath & Beyond for $49.99
Here’s a small shout-out for our American iPad-owning but not iCade-owning audience: Bed Bath & Beyond, which seems like a strange place…
XBLM discounts Red Dead DLC in ninth day of savings
With discounts being offered daily on Xbox Live across Microsoft’s “12 Days of Deals” winter promotion, we’ve seen big price drops in…
Editorial: EA's response to FIFA 12 'money laundering' on Xbox Live, part two
Last night, Shacknews detailed a hack that has been plaguing Xbox 360 users for a few months. Some players have seen their…
Famitsu Reveals Taito’s ‘Rayforce’; Coming This Winter
It’s always great to see companies with so much history (like Taito, in this case) bringing some of it to the App…
GameStop’s iOS Trade-In Program Doing Better Than Expected
So, that pilot iPhone, iPod, and iPad trade-in program at GameStop? Apparently, it isn’t doing so shabby. In a thrilling press release,…
The Metal Gear Solid snakeskin 3DS is not to be eaten
Despite its subtitle, Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater should not encourage you to consume the snakeskin-embossed Nintendo 3DS coming out alongside…
NintendoWare Weekly: VVVVVV, Bionic Commando
Two games hit the eShop today, and they both seem worthwhile! Terry Cavanagh’s devious puzzle platformer, VVVVVV, is now playable on the…
60beat’s New GamePad Sure Looks Like A Winner
With it being extremely doubtful that Apple will ever roll out any kind of official game controller for use with iPhone and…