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Are Video Game Shows Dying Out?
The status of E3 has been known for some time. Many have questioned if PAX--the Penny Arcade Expo--is taking the place of E3 sufficient for it to be the new E3. E3 has been rapidly falling off from its previous...
Did Zynga & Relativity Media Just Shift A Paradigm When No One Was Looking?
Earlier today, I got word about a new promotion, in which Relativity Media was getting together with recently beleagued games firm Zynga to promote both a movie and a video game at the same time. This combination made me take...
Will Steam's Big Picture Make PC Gaming The Next Big Console?
I admit, I was once a PC gamer. At the risk of dating myself, I was a PC gamer back in the days when knowing your way around a config.sys file wasn't just a smart idea, in many cases, it...
Games Are King On Kickstarter
Kickstarter today revealed that, when it comes to things getting funded on their site, the absolute best category to be in if you want a completed project is video gaming. On average, more projects go from launched to funded in...
The Future Of Gaming: Mobile Games, Fewer Gamers?
A new and unsettling survey was released from the NPD Group, and it's a survey that has some very disturbing implications for the gaming community in general. In that survey, the clear direction in gaming was going mobile...and there were...
Will Continuing Updates Break Gaming As We Know It?
While it would be easy to think that Labor Day would leave things kind of slack as far as news went, one item about the major upcoming release of Assassin's Creed III slipped out that may well make the whole...
Ever Want To Run Your Own Arcade?
The arcade, ladies and gentlemen, has seen better days. The rise of home consoles, of widespread network gaming, of significantly superior technology necessarily driving the prices up on full-size machinery to the point where huge prices have to be charged...
Cheating Pool: Changing The Online Gaming Landscape?
Once is a novelty. Twice is a coincidence. Three times is a pattern. We're well on our way to a pattern with the recent announcement that Awesomenauts is looking to join in Max Payne's method for dealing with online cheaters:...
End Of An Era: Is Nintendo Power On Its Last Life?
Some dark stirrings today in the gaming world, yet at the same time, dark stirrings that make all too much sense: word is that Nintendo Power, long the bulwark of Nintendo fans and kids everywhere, is coming to an end.The...
Connecting Games: Wave Of The Future?
Something has been catching my attention lately, and though the news itself may be a bit old, the dots are starting to connect, or at least look like they're connecting. And like Rorschach told Nite Owl II, if it looks...
Katamari Damacy Hits Museum Of Modern Art In New York
Admittedly, the idea of Katamari Damacy as art is a bit of a puzzler, yet then again, the game itself is so bizarre that calling it art isn't out of line. Agreeing with my perception that Katamari Damacy isn't out...
Best Buy Summer Gaming Blowout Looks To Make Big Splash
As we've all known for some time thanks to the magic that is a calendar, it's summer. While summer used to mean long hours of high heat and brightness that would scorch the paint of your retinas, so to speak,...
Roccat To Roll Out Power Grid At Gamescom Show
With E3 now just a fond memory, and the next PAX show so far off in the distance you can't even really see it from here, the next game show, such as it is, will be the massive German extravaganza...
Quantum Conundrum Episodes Release Featuring Kevin Pereira
For those of you who've been wondering what Kevin Pereira's been up to since leaving kind-of gaming network G4, the answer is simple, and somewhat surprising. He's been involved in promotional videos for the upcoming game release of Quantum Conundrum,...
Mass Effect's Next DLC Said To Involve Leviathan
After just yesterday encountering the newest downloadable content for Skyrim--which, by the way, is every bit as impressive as I'd hoped it would be--it seems another major franchise isn't planning to be counted out. Word is starting to circulate about...
Max Payne 3 Cheaters Get Lockdown In Cheater's Jail
We've seen a lot of different ways to take on cheaters. We've seen games that suddenly and horribly ratchet up difficulty levels, we've seen direct ejections, we've seen direct objections complete with humiliation. But Max Payne 3 is going to...
Diablo 3 Brings The Deals With A Real-Money Auction House, Now Live
The concept of gold farming has, alternately, amazed and horrified me by turns. I love the thought of people being able to make money by playing video games, by finding things and offering them up for sale so people can...
About Me
Steve Anderson has been writing about gadgets, movies, and video games for years, and loves all stripes of games from action to RPGs and beyond. Most recently, he has grown enamored with the action RPGs from Bethesda, the Elder Scrolls...
