Yes that day has finally come. A video game is now part of a course curriculum at an accredited college, Wabash College, in Indiana. College freshman are now required to ‘read and play’ Portal as part of a class requirement for all incoming freshman students. Professor Michael Abbott, the glorified …

Artist Robert Overweg is a self-described “Virtual Photographer” taking his inspiration from the digital worlds in which many of us spend our time. Of course, every gamer knows the patchwork of code can occasionally tear at the seams, resulting in glitches. Whether it’s your character falling through a hole in …

At this year’s Gamescom, Sony held a press conference to highlight some of the company’s biggest upcoming titles. They ended the show with a bang, bringing out Ted Price of Insomniac to deliver the goods on what fans can expect from the house that Clank built. The Burbank-based studio has …

According to a report from Gamescom by ComputerAndVideoGames.com, Valve is set to release the sequel to their much-beloved portal-puzzling-platforming-I-don’t-know-what game early next year. Host of GameTrailers, Geoff Keighley tweeted the release date as well and the planets have aligned for our return to the Aperture Science labs on February 9, …

This week at Gamescom in Cologne, Germany members from the biggest studios, developers, and publishers debuted new details on some of their most-anticipated titles. EA was on-hand to deliver a new trailer for Dead Space 2 along with some new gameplay footage that had fans of the original at a …

Throwing rocks, shuffling zombies, lighting fireplaces, these are the things you remember when you think of the movie Friday the 13th, right? We didn’t think so. But the NES version of Friday the 13th had that along with some of the most frustrating gameplay moments this side of Battletoads. To …

Irrational Games, the studio behind the original Bioshock, has been keeping a tight lid on news regarding its current project. After weeks of speculation, mysterious teaser websites, and a press-only event, Ken Levine & Co. are finally talking about what’s next. This week, Irrational revealed Bioshock: Infinite. Coming in 2012 …

At this year’s E3, developer Treyarch recently showed off some of the explosive single-player campaign for the upcoming Call of Duty: Black Ops. set in several decades during the height of the cold war between the United States and Russia. While the campaign will take players from the Viet-Cong tunnels …

Since its reveal at 2009′s Video Game Awards, the sequel to Batman Arkham Asylum had yet to be given a release date or even a proper title. After months of speculating, some online detective work, and fervent fan anticipation, the team at Rocksteady is finally ready to give more details …

It’s no secret we here at GameShack are fans of Bioshock 2. So it’s no surprise that word of more single-player content taking us back to Rapture is very good news indeed. 2K Games has announced the team behind this winter’s worthiest sequel is hard at work on more story-driven …