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The holidays are coming, and that means it's time for you to start thinking about what sorts of gifts you want to…

Most of the very best games on the PC need you to cough up at least a little cash, but if you absolutely must game…

The company that let us play The Secret of Monkey Island in our browser and just started letting people play a sort…

Is the flow of time constant, or can events that haven't occurred yet influence our behavior? A new paper provides…

Next January, upcoming role-playing game The Last Story will be released on the Nintendo Wii. But what day? I'll…

In this line of work, I'm continually reminded of how big a part games like Castlevania, Mega Man and Contra played…

People always ask me what I do. I guess I look like the kind of guy who you'd be curious what I do. I'm pretty sure…

The other day I was having coffee with friends who brought their 2 1/2 year old son over for a visit.

GameStop's brief listing of a "Borderlands Game of the Year Official Strategy Guide," now removed, hints that a…

Blizzard may have shrugged off coordinated community discontent in the past, but this week, we weren't talking about…