The Branch

It's a dispiriting law of nature, but everything in pop culture eventually grows old and starts to lose its edge.…

Violence in games can be great—not to mention really powerful, as we recently discussed. What about the other side…

There's really no getting around it: many, many games are about violence, and sometimes it can be a bit much. Kill…

You've been there before. A spam email pops up in your inbox and it's utter nonsense. A rancid word jambalaya of…

Downloadable content (DLC) is often a sore subject, with some gamers feeling shortchanged by map and weapon packs…

The best conspiracy theory in gaming this week just might be that Valve fixed the game they built around their infamo…

It was shortly after the fifth time I got clocked in the face by an errant elbow that I realized: this mosh pit was…

Remember Frontiers? It's basically The Elder Scrolls as created by two indies, and now it's getting hang gliders on…

Adding police to a series about large-scale warfare can create some... odd scenes. At the E3 demo for EA's…

An RPG party member who can't attack or even move, who spends every turn being the butt of more than a hundred…