Can games be considered art?

Or, for that matter, will they ever? This has been a gigantic issue for years on both sides, whether games like Shadow of the Colossus or Flow can be considered forms of art, or if they’d be let into the medium. I tend to explain things from my perspective. So sit back, relax, grab a [...]

Scribblenauts 2 Announced, Detailed

Scribblenauts 2 is announced in the latest Nintendo Power.

Portal 2 Announced

Well, it seems the dual updates to Portal earlier in the week actually meant something solid, and weren’t just an endless rabbit hole. Portal 2 has been announced. Rejoice. Yes. Oh yes. YES. Details are incredibly scant at the moment, as this is breaking news for the day. Thankfully, Gamestop’s product pages are actually worth [...]

Infinity Ward Fights Back; new details emerge

New details have come in about the gigantic, industry-shaking debacle between Infinity Ward and parent company Activision. As reported earlier, two of the head staff members at Infinity Ward were abruptly fired for no discernible reason. This, mere months after producing the megahit Modern Warfare 2. We now have answers to the question “Why?”. According [...]

Portal has been updated. Again.

This mid-afternoon, very much like on Monday, Valve updated Portal with yet another nugget of joy. Monday’s was much more cryptic that today’s is…to begin with. It unleashed a new achievement where you carry around radios (26 of them) to detect interference in the various test chambers, and finding the exact point on the map [...]

Gamer’s Ides of March

By the time you read this, it’ll already have passed…. but it’s happenings will be felt for a long, long time. Maybe even a week! The Ides of March, as you may or may not know, is the supposed day Julius Caesar was stabbed to death. And yeah, that’s pretty much what it feels like. [...]