How does Battlefield and Dragon Age for Mac sound? Count on it, because DICE is working to port the Frostbite game engine to OS X.
Battlefield 3 down for planned server migration tonight.
Investors are worried about the U.S. retail game market. But overall game-industry sales are at $68 billion, growing 7 percent a year.
Valve's Steam service and the Mac App Store must be trembling in fear right now.
Editor's Pick The game industry set a new record for the money spent on acquisitions, but the number of deals dropped.
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Don't cringe when video games are offered in public libraries. In fact, a well-maintained collection just might bring more kids, youth, and young adults into the hallowed halls of a local library than books ever will.
BioWare's Star Wars MMO will allow same-gender romances on a single planet.
Electronic Arts and Warner Bros. are interested in bidding on THQ properties.
EA will provide off-screen play in the Wii U version of Criterion's latest racing game.
From game violence to sex chat, game companies got into hot water in 2012.
You're being charged more and more money for less and less content these days. How do you feel about that?
We had some decent trends in gaming this year, but let's go negative.
2012 went by fast. Here are the trends that mattered in gaming.
Editor's Pick Before you read our forecast for 2013, take a look at how we did on last year's predictions.
Those gifted with new mobile devices this holiday season have a world of fun awaiting their fingertips -- maybe too much fun.
EA has a special signup page to get Dead Space 3 demo access one week early.
This was an outstanding year for game soundtracks. Whether chiptune or orchestral, the top 10 soundtracks of the year are beautiful and moving in vastly different ways.
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