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How the pursuit of realism can shut down the player's imagination -- with a look at the evolution of the Silent Hill and Final Fantasy series, among others. ...

Following yesterday's NPD report, Piper Jaffray analyst Michael Olson points out that retail sales for the Call of Duty series have declined by 27 percent year-over-year. This is not isolated news, either. The Call of Du...

Killer Instinct for Xbox One is about to get a cup of Christmas cheer with patch 2.2, which will bring holiday-themed costumes for fighters TJ Combo, Orchid and Sabrewulf, as well as the re-introduction of Riptor, a figh...

GX3 - or "The Convention Formerly Known As GaymerX" - will be held December 11-13 at the San Jose Marriott, located in (good guess!) San Jose, California, according to an update on the event's Kickstarter page. Those loo...

The incredibly ambition Skyrim mod Enderal: The Shards of Order is coming together nicely. A new trailer from the team shows off some of the progress they've made thus far.Click To

Microsoft has announced Killer Instinct is getting a few new items to celebrate the holiday season and more details about the 2.2 update, which adds a new fighter, Riptor. Riptor, which Microsoft first teased last month,...

The week kicked off with a bang, as Xbox Live users found their weekend hijacked by the unlikely evil forces of the Lizard Squad. Things didn't stay down for too long, though, as services were back up and running to keep...

Should you be looking for a few good gaming deals, this weekend holds plenty of promise. For starters, Good Old Games is finishing off its Big Winter Sale with an encore offering of every daily bundle that was featured i...

What a year it's been for the Wii U! After struggling for a long time, Nintendo's latest console finally got the shot in the arm it desperately needed: great games. A good number of these remarkable experiences came from...

Digital games retailer GOG.com is sending off its Winter sale with a 48 hour finale that brings back two weeks worth of daily bundles. The Big Winter Sale Finale, which started this morning, has Divinity: Original Sin fo...

The developers behind the fan-favorite Mortal Kombat series have been courted by the WWE to develop a brand new wrestling title called WWE Immortals. Details are scarce, leaving plenty of room for speculation about the s...

With the exception of the Alpha, Alienware's gaming PCs and laptops have never been subtle. Motorised fan vents, curvaceous chassis, and a cacophony of LED lights have come to define a brand that proudly screams gaming P...

Alienware's Area-51 is a supremely powerful and quiet gaming PC, but like all pre-built high-end PCs, you pay a hefty premium for that performance.

Papers, Please arrived on iPad this week, but an initial build depicting nudity when players searched the bodies of travelers was rejected by Apple on the grounds of containing "pornographic content." That decision appea...

Bungie is aware of an issue where Xbox One players have to re-download a patch every time they play Destiny. For now, the developer suggests players user a wired connection when patching, attempt to clear their cache, or...

Europe is getting two special editions of Bloodborne and preorder bonuses, Sony has announced in a post to the PlayStation Blog. For €119.99, the Nightmare Edition comes with: Bloodborne PS4 game SteelBook case Premium...

(Some Of) The Big Stuff: It finally happened. For the first time since launch last year, the Xbox One outsold the PlayStation 4 in the United States (and Europe, too!) during November 2014. Not only were hardware sales s...

Update: Valve has restored Steam's Holiday Auction event and posted the following note: "On Thursday Dec 11th we had an issue with Gems that meant we needed to reset the Auction and start over. We apologize for the inter...

In the Constantine midseason finale, John heads down to Mexico to help an old friend recover a stolen baby.

From Star Wars to The Avengers, here are our picks for the very best movie trailers released this year!

On Saturday, December 13, Capcom is hosting the finale of their Capcom Cup Ultra Street Fighter IV tournament here in San Francisco. You can watch the entire event live through their Twitch channel above, but the bigger ...

In September, Microsoft revealed that core components of the Windows 10 operating system would be added to the Xbox One in a 2015 update, though scant further information was available. According to Xbox division head Ph...