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Saturday Soapbox: Death of the MMORPG
MMORPGs had a good run. There’s no shame in admitting their time in the sun is over, and that it’s time to…
GTA Vice City PC ‘temporarily’ pulled from digital distributors over music licensing issue
Rockstar has decided to pull the PC version of Grand Theft Auto: Vice City from digital distributors for an undisclosed period while…
Street Fighter X Tekken tags in big balance update Jan. 29
You know that big update coming to Street Fighter X Tekken in mid-December? We hope you marked your calendar in pencil because…
GDC China: How cross-promotion for mobile titles can hit big
In a talk kicking off the Smartphone & Tablet Games Summit at GDC China 2012 in Shanghai, Chartboost’s Clay Kellogg discussed the…
Dishonored, Skylanders, Street Fighter, tons more cheap next week on Amazon
Amazon’s Black Friday deals are worth staying in for, thankfully, as are your health and safety. The retailer posted a list of…
Toys ‘R’ Us offers ‘buy one, get one for $1’ game sale, lots more on Black Friday
Toys ‘R’ Us’ Black Friday ad is 32 pages of red and green deals, and as usual, the toy store’s got plenty…
No midnight launch for Wii U at EB Games Canada
Before you pack up the 3DS, blankets and folding chair to go wait in line for Wii U in the Great White…
WRUP: What are your Thanksgiving gaming plans?
We’re working on a holiday feature and plan on using your comments for it. So, instead of the standard “what are you…
You have until December 14 to get OpenFeint out of your game
Heads up to those of you who have games with OpenFeint support: bad things could happen if you don’t get rid of…
The future of the Western role-playing game
This is a weekly column from freelancer Rowan Kaiser, which focuses on “Western” role-playing games: their stories, their histories, their mechanics, their…
Rumor: Next-gen Xbox details spilled in penultimate issue of Xbox World
Xbox World will stop revolving come December, but it plans on going out with a bang. Specifically, the UK publication’s second-to-last issue…
‘Angry Birds Star Wars’ Review – The Force Is Strong With… You Know The Rest
Angry Birds star in an excellent adventure in a galaxy far, far away….
PlayStation Blogcast 051: One Year Older, 70 Million PS3s Wiser
Firstly, I want to apologize for the lateness of this week’s Blogcast – we’ll be back to our regularly scheduled Thursday afternoon…
The TouchArcade Show – 78 – Carbonated Chemicals, "Board Games," and a Pair of ‘BLOPS’
This week, we didn’t stay on topic so well. At the top, we don’t discuss iPad mini or iPad 4. Instead, we…
How RPGs can avoid descending into early game hell
This is a column by Kat Bailey dedicated to the analysis of the once beloved Japanese RPG sub-genre. Tune in every Wednesday…
Rock Band Weekly: The Band, Allman Brothers, NIN, Dragonforce, etc
Fun fact: The Band and The Allman Brothers Band were originally one group called “The The Allman Brothers Band Band.” Their power…
Fullbright On The ’90s, How Many Guns Gone Home Has
I recently had the privilege of putting on my ’90s-appropriate detective hat and rifling through all sorts of (metaphorical – and some…
Tropico 4 ‘Megalopolis’ DLC available for import
Tropico 4 Gold Edition launched this week, and what better way for El Presidente to celebrate the compilation than with an upsell?…