Surgeon Simulator 2013 is, for reasons mostly comedic, the best damn game most of us have played this year. It’s even better when there’s a live audience – real or otherwise – to see you fail. Or, someho...

According to a report on German IT site Golem, Valve engineer Ben Krasnow told an audience at the recent EHSM 2012 conference in Berlin that the company’s long-awaited “Steam Box” custom PC/console/thing will ...

Ask just about any gamer for their thoughts on LEGO’s video game franchise, and you’ll likely hear the same thing again and again: “You know, they’re surprisingly decent.” And it’s completely true. Given...

Yesterday I sat next to my spouse in a dark and surprisingly luxurious movie theater, watching a childrens’ movie. Aside from a group of four late-teenaged boys across the aisle, we were the only adults in the room not sh...

When discussing the state of contemporary Japanese RPGs, people are split into two primary schools of thought. Some gamers think the genre has persevered, that JRPGs haven’t gotten worse, but that the once-core audience that fe...

The annual, unchanging Naruto Shippuden: Ultimate Ninja Storm series has little to offer anyone but hardcore fans. For that particular audience, though, it’s a consistent, reliable giver. It rarely shakes up the core mechanics ...

At the conclusion of the God of War: Ascension panel at PAX this weekend, key members of the development team treated the audience to a world exclusive: the video reveal of the “big bosses” to appear in Kratos’...

In drama, there’s a thing called the fourth wall. It’s the imaginary wall that separates the audience from the action they’re watching. You see it all the time on shows like The Office, where Jim Halpert mugs ...