Some bits of this conference sort of passed over me. Since I don’t really watch (or understand, or care about) sports for the most part, I didn’t get the import of EA Sports’ portion of it. Just keep that in mind

However, there was a decent mix of stuff that …

In a move that surprises absolutely no one, Activision Blizzard has taken the lid off of a new subscription-based business model for Call of Duty games going forward. The program is being referred to as “Call of Duty: Elite,” and is set to include additional content not available to non-Elite …

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 …

Last night, Sony’s Playstation blog updated with news from SCE President Kazou Hiari that the Playstation Network was finally ready to return. We heard rumblings of the service being restored. Hours earlier, the company pushed firmware update 3.61 to Playstation 3s in preparation for the network’s rollout. Version 3.61 brought …

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 …

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 …

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 …

Capcom appears to be stuck in the past when it comes to the Resident Evil series. Two years after the release of Resident Evil 5, everything on the RE radar seems to be revolving around re-releases and going back to the long destroyed Raccoon City.  Resident Evil 4 and Code …

Hooray for trans-media. The marketing team over at Zenimax Bethesda seems to be trying to hit all bases with RAGE–a comic book series via Dark Horse and now a newly announced novelization through Del Rey. It’s only a matter of time before the RAGE serialized television show comes about, followed …

SURPRISE! Yes, today Gearbox Software announced that the much maligned Duke Nukem: Forever is going to be delayed yet again.  As if we didn’t see that coming.  I am still morbidly curious to see what this game actually looks like when I have it in my hands, because at this point it …