Part 2 of Bitmob's Best of 2009 awards: Brutal Legend, Halo ODST, Prototype, Batman's Mark Hamill, and many more!

Why's it so hard to be the bad guy in role-playing games like Mass Effect?

A stealth gamer's manifesto on the rise and fall of the stealth genre.

Every game I played in 2009 reviewed.

Glitch hunting in crappy (and good) games, and how game developers should embrace off-the-wall A.I. rather than obsess over realism.

inFAMOUS' Cole gets zappy armblades while the game gets a nifty price cut.

An in-depth look at the Antihero in both gaming and popular culture

Brian Petro-Roy borrows from Allen Iverson to explain why he's not good at multiplayer games.

How learning parkour has made me less interested in video games featuring parkour, such as Mirror's Edge, Assassin's Creed, etc.

How I came to buy my PS3 Slim

Sometimes shortcuts are fun and wacky, like the end of Ferris Bueller's Day Off. These are not those kinds of shortcuts.

Welcome to the Bitmob Reviews Spotlight, which we're considering renaming the Matthew Erazo and Brian Shirk Reviews Spotlight Bromantic Brouhaha, because those guys write about a million good reviews a week, each. Not that we're complaining! Of course, some of you out there not named Erazo or Shirk also wrote some excellent reviews lately, and they