Nintendo recently held an event to unveil the final details including price, release date, and software lineup for its upcoming portable, the 3DS. The new handheld borrows several design elements from its DS predecessor including dual-screens and touch controls. The 3DS introduces glasses-free 3D technology, creating an effect that has …

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 …

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 …

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 …

After years of waiting, millions of Actions Per Minute, and the unrelenting cries of pro Korean players, Blizzard has finally given gamers a sequel to its wildly popular real-time strategy game entitled, StarCraft II: Wings of Liberty. Like any PC gamer worth their salt, no StarCraft player will be caught …

Just when you’ve read the last “First!” comment you can stand and accepted that Facebook friend request from your grandmother, the internet has a way of reminding you why you fell in love with it in the first place. Gamervision, the same team behind the amazing Inglorious Plummers, has released …

Stand in awe of youtube user DJ17Nario and his fancy footwork. Not content with simply beating 8-bit classics like Castlevania with the usual NES controller, he has taken things to the next level by completing them with a Dance Pad. For his latest feat, he has taken on the original …