For some beautiful reason, Nintendo, the company that is still charging $60 for Mario Tennis Aces, opted out of putting a full live-service ...

Video games are a symbiotic relationship between software and art. As a unique modern entertainment medium, games combine the technological capabilities inherent to ...

Electronic Arts devalues the games it publishes. Whether it be frequent studio closures or excessive in-game monetization via microtransactions and lootboxes, bad business ...

We all know that publishers make games to make a profit, but sometimes games are released as “free” when in reality they’ll cost ...

Question: “Why does publisher X have such greedy business practices?” Answer: “Companies exist to make money!” I see this exchange a lot, and ...

[folder_nav][folder_nav] My initial impressions of Dead Space 3 were more than a little bit on the negative side. The cover shooting, weird pacing ...

Shooter multiplayer modes live or die by two things: partners and options. The importance of having partners varies from game to game. Someone ...

[folder_nav][folder_nav] Blizzard has begun selling the Celestial Steed mount to World of Warcraft players. That is, they will sell you a pretend animal ...

Free-to-play, microtransactions, social game networks – the online gaming space is changing, and at this year’s Game Developers’ Conference in Austin, developers and ...

I don’t mind subscription fees. I’ve never understood the vehemence with which some people refuse to ever consider paying a recurring fee – ...

I like MMOGs. Well, all things considered, I probably should like MMOGs, what with them being my job and all. You could even ...

Exteel: We Dig Giant Robots I make absolutely no secret of the fact that I love giant robots. I love Japanese giant robots ...