Halo is the kind of juggernaut that every design team both hopes for and fears – a series so successful and well-known that ...

I’m sorry, SOCOM II. I tried my best, I really did. The plan was simple: In protest of SOCOM II‘s servers being permanently ...

There’s a certain saying that might be appropriate for Call of Duty: Black Ops 2 “two steps forward, one step back”, though in ...

One of the most important aspects of recreating the superhero experience in a videogame is making the player actually feel like the superhero ...

Taking its cue from the Family Guy episode, Road to the Multiverse, Activision has partnered with Family Guy creator Seth McFarlane to create ...

Just in time for the 50th anniversary of James Bond, comes 007: Legends, a GoldenEye-styled first-person shooter that covers six complete, classic Bond ...

If there’s one thing that can be said about Prototype 2, is that it does a good job of letting you raise some ...

There are two stories of videogame “plagarism” going on lately. One is the story of Zynga copying Tiny Tower and making Dream Heights. ...

2010: the year we make contact. Well, this year didn’t exactly pan out like Arthur C. Clarke had envisioned, but there was still ...

A lot of gamers are ignorant of where early games came from, who made them, and how things turned out for those people. ...

There is an entire subset of the Call of Duty fanbase – arguably the largest subset – that could not possibly care less ...

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