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Article | 21/05/2010 Q&A with Mount & Blade creative team

Mount & Blade is definitely not the prettiest game out there. But if we were to judge titles on aesthetics alone, Avatar: The Game would have been the...

Article | 11/05/2010 PES 2011: Pro Evolution Soccer to get radical overhaul

In the midst World Cup fever, Konami Digital Entertainment GmbH has just announced the 2011 version of the popular Pro Evolution Soccer franchise.

Article | 30/04/2010 Bungie and Activision discuss new partnership: Call of Duty, fresh IP and Halo on the Wii?

As one of the largest-scale partnerships ever forged in gaming, the 10-year deal brokered between Activision and Bungie has raised many questions abou...

Article | 27/04/2010 Dungeons and Dragons Character Builder

We've come a long, long, way from "Roll 3d6 6 times." While character creation in <a href="http://www.pcworld.com/downloads/file/fid,83732-order,4/des...

Article | 24/04/2010 The ASUS ROG G73Jh: For Gamers and Beyond

Real gamers hate marketers' lures. Those suits ambush gamers with branded drinks, razors, and PCs. Just create great products instead of selling extre...

Article | 23/04/2010 Virtual horse rakes in $2.5 million per hour for Blizzard

Last week, Activision-Blizzard released a new in-game item for its mega-hit MMO, World of Warcraft. This time out, it was the Celestial Mount and it w...

Article | 21/04/2010 Marvel vs. Capcom 3: what we know so far

Yesterday, Capcom released new information about its hotly anticipated fighting game; Marvel vs. Capcom 3: Fate of Two Worlds. Confirmed characters on...

Article | 19/04/2010 Prince of Persia: The Forgotten Sands preview

Ubisoft’s upcoming “interquel” in the Prince of Persia series, The Forgotten Sands, brings the series back to the Sands of Time universe and leads fan...

Article | 16/04/2010 Top 10 fan-made video game movies and trailers

Fan-made films based on popular video games have become an interesting phenomena over the years. Just what drives these people to shed their blood, sw...

Article | 14/04/2010 How green is my game?

In recognition of Earth Day, which is later this month, we take an investigative look into the environmental impact of video games at all states of th...

Article | 14/04/2010 Underappreciated gaming jobs: Roster men

We take a look at one of the least glamorous, but absolutely integral, jobs in the world of sports video game development. Meet the 'roster men,' the ...

Article | 14/04/2010 The 25 best iPad games

The iPad is now available in stores and there are already over fifty games available for purchase on Apple's new platform. The following article inclu...

Article | 14/04/2010 Apple's new MacBook Pros not for serious gamers

Hoping Apple's new MacBook Pro updates might finally be able to chew through GPU-pummeling games like Crysis, Battlefield Bad Company 2, or Mass Effec...

Article | 9/04/2010 The whole world consumed by video games. Amazing video

See New York (and eventually the whole world) overrun by Space Invaders and Tetris blocks before being eaten by Pac-Man and jumped over by Frogger. An...

Article | 10/04/2010 Hands-on with Red Dead Redemption multiplayer

This week, we checked out Red Dead Redemption’s multiplayer mode with a posse of the good, the bad and the ugly (otherwise known as the Australian gam...

Article | 9/04/2010 The rise of Facebook gaming

Facebook video game designers, including the creator of Civilization series Sid Meier, talk about the jump from developing traditional games to making...

Article | 9/04/2010 Is Apple's iPhone OS 'Game Center' a Nintendo DS killer?

Is the iPhone a legitimate gaming platform? Ask anyone who's ever fiddled with one for more than a few minutes anyone that isn't Nintendo, anyway). As...

Article | 9/04/2010 In pictures: Modern Warfare fan-made movie

If you're a die-hard Modern Warfare fan, you've probably seen 'Frozen Crossing' by now -- the MW2-inspired live-action short that was made for just $2...

Article | 8/04/2010 The 23 best XBLA games

From addicting puzzle games like Peggle to Epic Games' exceptional 2D shooter Shadow Complex, we provide a comprehensive list of over twenty great vid...

Article | 5/04/2010 The iPad review: a gamer's perspective

The word "revolutionary" gets bandied about quite a bit, particularly when Apple is involved. And to hear some people talk, the iPad tablet threatens ...