I have something coming down the pipeline on Brink (Spoiler: Its not great, but I’m enjoying it probably more than I should). That said, Splash Damage and Bethesda released the first major update for the game. This patch attempts to alleviate some of the lag players have been feeling (particularly …

Internet “security” seems to be in a somewhat sorry state right now. Square Enix and Eidos Montreal confirmed yesterday that their websites were attacked by a group of hackers and personal data was compromised. The websites were immediately taken down so their respective companies could assess the damage as well …

This is something that came to pass over the weekend. Sadly, I wasn’t near a computer so I had to wait in order to post this. I haven’t seen very much on this floating around the internet, but it is extremely important for our medium. Yes, the National Endowment for …

This might be old news by now, but according to the official Playstation Blog the folks over at Sony are working to get the PSN system back up by this week. According to Patrick Seybold (Senior Director of Corporate Communication and Social Media) the process has already begun, but will …

In an interesting, albeit spoiler-ridden interview with key members of Portal 2′s design team at Fast Company, Valve’s VP of marketing Doug Lombardi announces the future announcement of DLC for the game. At the moment, hard details are scarce though as many of you probably know, there is plenty of …

It has been a fairly slow news week, but this little tidbit caught my eye. Do you remember Hydrophobia? Probably not, because it was kind of terrible by all accounts (though had a really neat water physics engine, go figure). Anyways, the game’s developer/publisher Dark Energy is re-releasing a “definitive” …

Game Informer Magazine claims it has confirmed, through multiple sources, that Nintendo is set to announce the successor to the Wii before or during this year’s Electronic Entertainment Expo. With Wii sales beginning to taper off and a rumored price drop to $150 for the motion control marvel, the current …

George Hotz, aka Geohot, the hacker who cracked Sony’s Playstation 3 protection code, has settled with the Japanese electronics giant. Amidst a series of sensational legal proceedings, trips to South America, group attacks on the PSN, and more, Hotz has decided to settle and accept the terms of his surrender. …

Those of you who have been following the ongoing Alternate Reality Game surrounding the release of Portal 2 undoubtedly know how insane it has become. For those who haven’t, here’s a basic scaffold: to promote the upcoming launch of Portal 2 on April 19th, Valve has created a very odd variety of …

Hi. I’m Syn, and this is my corner. I want to talk about games. To be more exact, with each of these articles, I would like to take a specific title and use it as a point of analysis of its underlying ideas or mechanics, almost as if it were …