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Conservative groups? Gay agenda? Forget 'em. Gender bending and sexual experimentation is intrinsic to video games...and has been for decades.

Sex in video games isn't the target it used to be, but not for the right reasons.

Ever wonder what's being dumped unto the shelves of video game stores every week? Wonder no more! Karli Winata will attempt to bring to light the many releases that come out each week. Won't you join him in his self torture? Check out what's coming out on the week of 3/5/2012.

Can you pair up the celebrity voice actors with their video-game personalities?

Are the most common character portrayals of men and women in video games a problem?

My personal account of 2011. The games I played (both new and old,) and my thoughts on the year's events.

As an older medium, comics have a lot of lessons to teach games. Too bad games didn't listen.

In this season of peace, love, and family, what does a misanthropic horde of violence-prone loners do to mark the holidays?

Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance's hack-and-slash reincarnation piqued a swath of mixed reactions from gamers. Now, publisher Konami wants to clear things up with a mini-documentary interviewing members of Kojima Productions and Platinum Games.

News Blips for December 13, 2011. Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance contains several dramatic changes from its previous concept, a judge throws out the remnants of a lawsuit against Sony's removal of its Other OS feature, and Star Wars: The Old Republic starts inviting pre-order players to play the game.

I orginally intended for this to be a neat, concise list. But after a few paragraphs, I realized I had some crap I needed to get off my chest! That's the last time I spend a night in Cleveland. Best read over the course of 5 days.

Instead of branding everything with the company logo, publishers need to celebrate video-game creators by name.

I spend some time with the recently-released demos for Sonic Generations and El-Shaddai: Ascension of the Metatron. Read on for my impressions and learn why our childhood favourite is (still) in another castle.

Bitmob's video team, led by hostess Chloe Dykstra, stormed E3 earlier this month and put a handful of booth babes to the (quiz) test in the first-ever 5HP: Booth Babe Edition. Check out the video to find out if you're smarter than a booth babe (spoiler alert: you are).

In honor of Duke Nukem Forever's 14-years-in-the-making release, we throw this very special ROUNDTABLE'D! over to the King himself to dispense his priceless wisdom.

Some of gaming's greatest icons put one very eventful weekend into perspective.

In this week's episode of the Mobcast, GameZone's Ben PerLee and Chemical Bun Productions' Carlos Rodela join Bitmob's Brett Bates and Demian Linn. The crew discusses the newly launched 3DS, films that find inspiration in video games, the dangers of facile gameplay, and more.

Striking a balance with in-game difficulty can be an arduous task for developers. What's the difference between "challenging" and "frustrating"?

Profile a female video-game character in this month's Bitmob Writing Challenge!

Publishers are becoming increasingly desperate in their attempts to stop you from trading in your games. Does a solution exist that could benefit both parties?