EA’s ulterior motive behind killing the Online Pass

Electronic Arts ended the unpopular Online Pass program aimed at cashing in on the used-games market, but the reason may have more to do with Sony and Microsoft's new consoles than customer dissatisfaction.

Metal Gear Rising’s prediction of a privatized American police force mirrors reality

Walking tanks and full body cyborgs are some of the outlandish predictions made in Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance. But Kojima Productions' vision of privatized police forces may just be their most accurate to date.

BioShock Infinite, ludonarrative dissonance, and “next-gen game design”

What can designers do about the ludonarrative dissonance that exists when you try to mix a deep storyline with a shooter?

3 retro Disney games that don’t deserve remakes

Not all Disney games were so great. Here are three retro titles from the Mouse that deserve to stay in the past.

More realistic graphics should make us reconsider video game violence

Games invoke empathy but never from our acts of digitized violence. As games move ever-closer to photorealism, this will cease to be the case.

5 other retro Disney games that deserve remakes

We're already getting new versions of DuckTales and Castle of Illusion. Here are five other Disney classics we'd like to see get the HD treatment.