Last week at the Final Fantasy 25th Anniversary event here in Tokyo, some of the biggest names in Square Enix talked…
According to reports out of Greece, two Czech citizens have been arrested for "spying". They were caught with photos…
Is there anything more innocuous than Japanese boy bands? Not when one of their members dresses like a Nazi S.S.…
Based in Montreal, concept artist Donglu Yu has worked on two of the prettiest video game properties around: Deus Ex…
Blizzard isn't just famous for its games, it's famous for a lengthy and considered development output. It's one of a…

Valve's new Big Picture mode for Steam sure looks nice in pictures, but how does look, and more importantly work,…

It's been two months since the internet first laid eyes on Parsec Productions' splendidly scary free horror game Slender

I really like weird games. Cubivore. Katamari Damacy. Gitaroo Man. As a gamer, some of my favorite experiences are…

Here's a heartwarming story: a man named Chad Ruble hacked a Kinect to allow his mom, a stroke victim, to send…

After a 13-year hiatus, Iron Chef is returning to Japanese television. The show, which originally ran from 1992 to…
Late last week, stories surfaced that Bingbing Li, the actor who plays Ada Wong in the new Resident Evil movie,…
In Japan, they're called "kaomoji" (顔文字) or literally "face character". In short, they're emoticons. These…
Beth Robinson is 13. She recently met a boy, aged 12, over Xbox Live. Beth lives in Houston and the boy, Dylan,…

While not the full game (impossible, since it's not even done yet), some enterprising types have managed to get…
No one I know seriously plays "Mascot Mashup" in NCAA Football, except for maybe the six-year-old son of a good…
Middle Manager of Justice, the latest zany game coming from Double Fine (previewed here by Kirk Hamilton) was one of…
The New York Times has a great feature on Valve and some of the things they've been up to recently, including these c…
Hackers armed with email addresses and passwords stolen from other sources are probing Guild Wars 2 accounts to see…
As the major-release machine spins up for its September-to-November finishing kick, NewEgg is guaranteeing $12 off…
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