Many people remember when Resident Evil 5 was first shown and how there were questions from some in the gaming community (and outside it) that the game had racist undertones. Some of the stuff being thrown around was really ridiculous if you ask me, such as people dropping the race card simply due to the…

International research firm Parks Associates has found that “premium casual games” will exceed $1 billion dollars in revenue by 2013 according to Edge. “Gaming has proven remarkably recession-proof,” says Parks Associates company president Stuart Sikes. He added that social networks (such as Myspace and Facebook) and gaming communities should be seen by developers and publishers…

Midway is looking to sell their Mortal Kombat franchise by offering huge bonuses ($3,755,000 altogether) for those employees that manage to make the deal. One of them was apparently already successful as it was regarding Midway’s “Wheelman” game which was recently picked up by Ubisoft who will now be publishing it. In addition to this,…

Is THQ in trouble of going bankrupt? A Denver financial analyst has stated that he thinks there is a 50% chance that THQ could in fact go bankrupt. He bases this on their “dwindling sales and weakened core brands”. This includes their two most recent titles: Warhammer: Dawn of War 2 and 50 Cent: Blood…

A college professor (and thus, an accomplished adult) defending the virtues of video games? Blasphemy! News has surfaced of Arizona State University Professor of Literacy Studies, James Gee defending video games in a recent lecture that he gave. No stranger to challenging people to look at video games in a positive light, Dr. James Gee…

The age of the Xbox 1 has long passed, ever since Microsoft transitioned to the Xbox 360 upon it’s release on November 22nd, 2005. However, officially, Microsoft continued to offer support for those players who hadn’t yet upgraded to the Xbox 360. The support came in the form of fixing broken down consoles if you…

UK researchers have discovered that playing a puzzle game like Tetris can help reduce the effects of traumatic stress. This was discovered when the researchers exposed volunteers to “distressing images” and then gave them the game to play half an hour later. Players who played Tetris directly after being exposed to the images had “fewer…

De Blob has sold over 700,000 copies on the Nintendo Wii where the paint-coloring platformer is exclusively available at a cost of $50 (the game is also available on DS although the announcement apparently doesn’t concern that version). This is quite a feat considering the state of the economy because, as THQ CEO Brian Farrell…

BattleForge is EA Phenomic’s upcoming card-based real-time strategy game (RTS) in which gamers can win as well as buy new cards (via microtransactions) and play in both PVE and PVP matches. If you are curious about trying the game then you’ll be happy to know that the game is now in open beta which means…

The UK video game industry charity “GamesAid” has announced that they have raised over £125,000 ($175,244 USD according to the online XE converter) since October of 2008. To quote from the press release: “The staggering figure has been raised for children and young people by a number of leading games industry companies including Codemasters, who…

The popular and influential 90′s Computer Shopper Magazine is taking it’s last bow with the April issue. The magazine used to be as thick as a phonebook and is one of the longest running PC magazines, but will finally bow out of the print publication race and will be going digital only at computershopper.com. A…

Tom Clancy’s HAWX is set to take the realistic military action players know and love from the Tom Clancy universe to the skies for the first time in a dogfighting flight game that releases for Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 on March 6th with the PC version shipping on March 13th. Rather than go in…

Tomb Raider: Underworld – Beneath the Ashes is now available for the Xbox 360. Beneath the Ashes is an Xbox 360 exclusive episode from Eidos that is meant to be “more than just an expansion pack” and instead will add a whole new story and adventure elements to the title. This includes highly involved and…