One day after Walmart asked employees to remove signage for “violent” video games, a news report said that Walmart…

Mortal Kombat 11 is a brutal game. That’s what you come for—sensational, over-the-top violence that’s inventive and…

Mafia III’s perspective on racial tensions in the United States is something rarely seen in games. Accordingly, some…

Today, the American Academy of Pediatrics published a powerful statement about the effects of “virtual violence” on…

The Evil Within’s downloadable content has been...interesting, to say the least. The first two add-ons were…

Ah, Brutal Doom. The last place a gore-hungry gamer can go when drowning people in The Sims and exploding opponents’…

The world raised an eyebrow when it was revealed Batman: Arkham Knight would be M-rated, since the previous games—Ar…

As Mortal Kombat escalated during its early years, the series introduced more ways to finish fights. Fatalities were…

It's taken Mortal Kombat X to show me how much I've changed since 1992.

Hatred is a game about the wanton slaughter of people fueled by nothing but pure, well, hatred. Its trailer came…

Last week, I wrote about a strange issue Shadow of Mordor players have been reporting since the game came out: Orcs…

We've killed a lot of things in a lot of video games over the years. But not all video game deaths were created…

A whir, a pop, and then the head explodes. Ceases to exist, really. Ropy tendrils of gray-black goop spiral…

We normally think of game ratings as little more than a useful marker of where we'll be able to buy a game, or…

Nowhere in video games is the phrase "evolution, not revolution" more apt than in first-person shooters. As proof, I…

After this thing the other week here’s some actual science proving actual things. Specifically: “’immoral’ virtual…

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…

Now that YouTuber Game Dave and his army of young, free-spelling youngsters have weighed in on the console war, it's…