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With PC gaming has long enjoyed a fervent following, there’s one nagging blemish on the platform: control is typically handled with equipment designed for scrolling through spreadsheets rather than securing headshots. Recognizing an opportunity, manufacturers ...

From Doom’s demon decimating BFG 9000 to Call of Duty: Black Ops II’s demoralizing PDW-57 submachine gun, first-person shooters have a long history of conveying empowerment through dominating devices. That said, few franchises can compare ...

There have been some noteworthy Kickstarter success stories so far, and the Cognition series by Phoenix Online Studios looks like it may be the next one.  While some of the graphical glitches and tedious technical ...

This week, Robert, Jeremy, Eric and Sage offer their often-irrelevant analysis of the PlayStation 4 presser as well as impressions of Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance, Big Sky Infinity, Bentley’s Hack Pack, Aliens: Colonial Marines, Unfinished ...

Beyond maps packs for two of the biggest FPS franchises (Halo 4‘s Majestic Map Pack and Call of Duty: Black Ops II‘s Revolution DLC) this week presents a number of remarkable offerings. Role-playing aficionados are ...

Literary critic Samuel Taylor Coleridge once proposed that if authors impart “human interest and a semblance of truth” into an otherwise far-fetched story, readers could temporarily suspend disbelief.  Over the years, this theory has been ...

Not long ago, if you wanted to seize the output of a game console, the sole feasible option was an expensive and bulky professional-level video capture device. Thanks to the introduction of consumer-level equipment developed ...

Beyond a pair of heavy hitters- Crysis 3 and Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance, several other notable new releases will be competing for discretionary income. The first of The Tyranny of King Washington’s three-part installment, entitled ...

While I’ve generally had little difficulty maintaining journalistic objectivism during E3 demonstrations, Randy Pitchford’s Aliens: Colonial Marines walk-through proved to be one of the rare exceptions, stoking the fires of a fervent Aliens fanboy. Driven ...

Although survival is a pervasive theme in interactive entertainment, the first two entries in the Dead Space franchise provided a pair of remarkably engrossing depictions of the struggle for existence. Pitting protagonist Isaac Clark against ...