Toy builder Jon English has come up with these incredible custom He-Man figures, some of the heavily modified…
It can sometimes be rough trying to find enough quality cosplay to feature in this weekly roundup. Not this week.
While everyone gets excited over Firaxis' very-promising XCOM remake, it's easy to forget that there was once anothe…
Mike Sass worked at BioWare for twelve years. That's an astonishing amount of time for an artist to stay put at the…
It's at least a five-day drive from Burnaby, British Columbia to Maitland, Fla.—if you're using Google Maps, that…
Say this for Performance Designed Products, makers of the Afterglow Wireless Headset, a slick, luminous gaming…
Football is a role-playing game. That's how Chris Kluwe, the Minnesota Vikings punter and noted World…
If you are a company who rakes in millions making social games for Facebook, I have good news for you. Researchers…
As someone who gets hit all the time with the "HEY I COME HERE FOR GAMES NOT POLITICS SO KEEP THAT TO YOURSELF,"…
Despite feedback from Tecmo's overseas offices to "tone down the sexuality" of Dead or Alive 5's female fighters,…
Are you an Xbox Live Gold subscriber with a Gamerscore of more than 3,000 but not more than 10,000? Well, good news…

If you got in on this summer's bar argument over which U.S. Olympic basketball team was better, and were convinced…
What's happened in the business of video games this past week ...
For those with their eyes on Assassin's Creed 3—well, its console release anyway—NewEgg has a discount on its…
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Piploop became Piplup because Piploop sounds too much like poop. Another Pokémon was almost called Doncrowleone,…
You probably don't know Elizabeth Tobey. She didn't voice an outrageous character or design an outlandish weapon in…
Or outrage, or scorn. Video games are just one pushcart in the vast marketplace of ideas, where everyone shouts down…
Why is the PlayStation Vita floundering? One reason is that people just weren't interested in developing games for…

You city slicker video gamers think farming simulation video games is nothing but updating the roster with the…