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Of all the terms one could use to describe a video game soundtrack—exhilarating, emotional, sad, uplifting,…

I'm about as old as Watergate and it has had a constant and vaguely Oedipal influence on me. Dad was a newsman; I'm…

The headlines around the world about Sean Smith last year were mostly about how he left this Earth. But this is a…

During the two-and-a-half decades I've been playing JRPGs, I've learned three important lessons: 1) If an NPC tells…

Mass Effect is about a lot of things. Shooting. Flying. Driving. Talking. Space magic. It's also a series about…

April Fool's Day is definitely a thing in Japan. And here is a round-up of some, certainly not all, of the country's…

Mario is king, no doubt ‒ but not in this game. In Luigi's Mansion: Dark Moon, Mario's brother Luigi is the star.…

In less time than it takes to make a new BioShock, but in more time than it takes to crank out a new PlayStation…

For football enthusiasts picking a Madden cover boy from a a field of 64 candidates, graced by some of the game's…

I ran a test yesterday. I loaded the always-online SimCity—the game that EA says just can't be easily made to run…