Man, the wait for Diablo 3 is kind of a pain, isn't it? Not so much the waiting part, but the fact that it isn't even really necessary. As the …

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There was a time when a North American release Xenoblade Chronicles seemed like a lost cause.  Despite universal acclaim and the fact that the game had already been localized for …

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I will not be playing Mass Effect 3 this week.  Upon its release this Tuesday, I shall sortie to my local game emporium to acquire my prepaid Collector's Edition, return …

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Five levels from the maximum cap, my time with The Old Republic is finally drawing to a close.  It’s coming up against a barrier that all games strike sooner or …

You may not have voted for him, you may not respect him, but you gotta love having President's Day off from work. Quasi-holidays like PDay are the best because, unlike …

• PC

I prefaced my time in The Old Republic writing about storytelling.  Decisions, consequences, feeling like my character’s actions carried some weight within the game world: that sort of thing.  It’s …

February, 2012 is the month of three paramount events that are poised to gain the attention of millions of people across the nation, around the globe, and throughout the universe. …

• PC

I’ve just bought my commando a personal speeder.  Think of it like a Segway with engine wash and questionable stability.  My character arches off the back end like he’s wrangling …

• PC

Games can get off to a rough start for all sorts of reasons.  Adding game play elements too quickly or too slowly.  Poor tutorials or documentation.  Dense expository dumps, especially …

• PC

Huge multiplayer online games and I don’t get along very well.  Part of it is just the nature of the netcode: that feeling of rough approximation in every interaction.  Environments …

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Rage makes a poor first impression and closes out with a worse one.  With bookends like that, it would be easy to mistake the stuff in the middle as adequate.  …

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The worst gaming drought of my life struck in the summer of 1995.  I'm sure someone remembers that as the year their all-time favorite Super Nintendo or Atari Jaguar game …

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As the Holiday season brings in a torrent of games that will undoubtedly lighten your wallet and thicken your backlog, we sift through the pile and offer our opinion on …

• 3DS

I like the direction Nintendo is going with the 3DS in adapting to the smartphone framework of using separate apps to perform a variety of software functions. Although I feel …

Unless you've been under a rock for the past month or so, there's been a lot of hacking going on lately.  Sony, Codemasters, Bethseda, PBS, the US Senate, the CIA …