I wear makeup. If my fiancé went in the bathroom and snapped my eyeliner pencil, I’d be fuming. But here I am watching these YouTube videos of girls smashing their boyfriends' consoles out of anger. All for different reasons: They don’t …
THQ has announced that it’s lost less than expected in the first quarter of its fiscal year — which actually good news for the video game publisher that recently escaped NASDAQ delisting.
THQ reported net sales of $38.6 million for …
You've set up your Nexus 7 as the perfect productivity device. Now start playing with five must-have Android games.
Zynga tries to create the ultimate cooking social game, avoiding possible new lawsuits in the process.
The $67 billion worldwide video game industry is breaking through barriers on the cultural, legal and political fronts, according to the annual report of the Entertainment Software Association, the U.S. industry's trade group.
DeNA and Ngmoco teams up with Marvel Comics for Marvel War of Heroes, a battle card game for mobile devices.
Riot Games hopes to turn its hit game League of Legends into a household name by dramatically expanding a professional-gaming league that rewards players with big prizes and recognition.
Jim Veevaert has crossed over from making games like Halo 3 to Zynga's social games like Ruby Blast. He says he's never going back.
Nintendo has another New Super Mario Bros. game, but is it fair to still call it new?
ARM Mali T600-based devices will be able to display eye-popping, beautiful 3D graphics.
Editor's Pick Innovative Leisure has raised a seed round to fund its "new arcade" mobile games.
Khronos Group's new OpenGL 3.0 software will raise mobile 3D-graphics quality, leading to better-looking zombies on our iPhone or Android tablets.
If you haven’t heard of it, the Tetris effect occurs when one devotes an excessive amount of time to an activity or game, and it begins to overtake the sufferer’s thoughts and dreams. It’s named for the classic block-stacking puzzler Tetris. …
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Spinning, zooming, creating, zapping and slapping: all in a day's beta with Little Big Planet Karting.
A private Team Fortress 2 server features a plethora of geeky Easter Eggs.
Here are seven (lame) ways that people cut corners in the most low-pressure games in existence.
The Community Spotlight features some of the best unedited articles that didn't quite make the front page. This week, we examine on-disc DLC in Capcom games, ponder the changing model of triple-A development, draw connections between Mass Effect and Nintendo …
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The music in the Mass Effect trilogy backs some of the most epic, poignant, and beautiful moments in recent gaming memory. Anyone whose played it will not soon forget the soaring strings and strident trumpets which helped make each game's …
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