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I do not know if I have ever expressed my interest in mixed martial arts in this blog but let me tell you now ? it is one of the most exciting spectator sports for me. Perhaps it is due to the fact that I am a frustrated martial arts person. I cannot [...]

Whoever thought that video games would reach the heights that they have reached today? Long gone are the days when video games were merely for kids who wanted to entertain themselves. We all know this ? with the Wii, PlayStation3, and the Xbox360, more and more people are discovering the world of video [...]

Though a lot of people didn?t think that the video game industry was going to be seriously affected by the economic crisis, it happened. The video game industry actually reported lower sales this quarter and I am not really surprised. After all, when it comes to the crunch, entertainment is usually the first [...]

How can they do this if they were able to approve games such as GTA IV? That?s as offensive as you can get! Well, it depends on your definition of offensive and what kind of offensive language you mean. In the case of Little Big Planet, it seems that there were words [...]

Here is another casual game that might get you glued to your computers for hours and hours. Carnival Mania is relatively new tycoon game that challenges the player to create his own fair ground. The basic concept is fairly simple ? just like all the other tycoon games. The difficult part is [...]

It?s a first for presidential candidate Barack Obama and it is also a first for everyone. With the elections almost here, the candidates are stepping up their efforts in getting the votes of scores of Americans across the nation. And for the first time ever in American history, a candidate is extending his [...]

To paraphrase Stephen King, if you find you cannot horrify, you go for the gross-out. EA’s third-person “survival horror” game Dead Space (for PC, Xbox 360, and PS3) frequently horrifies and grosses out. It’s also ironically produced — if…

The word on the street is that Apple’s new high-end MacBook Pro is set to ship with an NVIDIA 9600M GT, arguably the most underwhelming GPU upgrade to Apple’s “pro” part in years. Don’t quote me on that, but…

Yes, that is for real. There is such a thing as a peeing game. Ok, the name is not that crude (I apologize if I have offended some with the title) but the idea is basically that. Dubbed the Super Pii Pii Brothers (there isn?t much of a difference, is there?), the [...]

I’ve yet to lay eyes on Warhammer Online’s digitally grim “waagh-ness,” and that’s looking increasingly like a mistake. “Increasingly,” because so many of you have. Laid eyes, that is. And fingers. And cannons, catapults, ballistas, rams, trebuchets, and Nurlge…

Compared to the PS3’s snappy X-meets-Y Emmy award-winning “XrossMediaBar” interface, the 360’s stylish whooshing tabs comprised of five horizontally swappable blades can seem sluggish and flabby. Wish Microsoft would just ditch the whole thing and start over? Wish no…

The idea Microsoft could somehow stave off the shift to optical-based high-def content by restricting its own solution to video downloads always seemed a little cuckoo, so today’s not-surprise is that the Xbox 360 may finally be getting the…

Nintendo of America president Reggie Fils-Aime says digital downloads may complement the business model for its new storage-centric handheld DSi, but they won’t overtake retail sales. That’s a big fat “aww shucks” for those of you hoping not to…

Leave it to GamePolitics to tease (if not quite answer) that question by pulling together an ad hoc list of republican and democratic contributors that at first blush looks awfully Obama-friendly. Using publicly available records provided by Newsmeat (“America’s…

In the second in a series entitled “The Future of Reading,” New York Times critic Motoko Rich speculates about books pitched with video game tie-ins expressly in mind. Sound counterintuitive? Shouldn’t that be the other way around? Yes, for…

Did you hear the one about the guy who once sold computer games in plastic Ziploc bags blasting off in a Russian spacecraft on October 12th for a multimillions orbital cruise? Game developer and NASA astronaut offspring Richard Garriott…