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Every year has its best-of lists when it comes to gaming. This time, let's look at the biggest disappointments of 2011.

News Blips for Friday, November 18: Torchlight 2 delayed, Splash Damage working on new game, MechWarrior reboot will use CryEngine 3, and more

In this week's Community Spotlight, we've got a layered approach to gaming, an examination of the industry blogosphere, a tale of customer service woe, and more Street Fighter confessions.

When I get a new game, I have a very specific layout for how I want to experience it for the first time. It's a bit intense, but every game deserves a chance to totally immerse me.

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.

In this week's Community Spotlight, we've got musings on choice and consequence, a blow-by-blow account of a Halo: Reach comeback, dissatisfaction with Brink, and a buyer's guide for new Nintendo 3DS owners. (Those people exist, right?)

Video Blips for August 8, 2011. See some of Bodycount's familiar level design, check out a trailer for Star Wars: The Old Republic's Consular class, watch a developer diary for Stronghold 3, and more.

Brink lost me at launch with bad lag and cumbersome gameplay mechanics. Does Agents of Change bring me back? No, but at least I tried.

While social media open up brand new ways to play games and interact with friends, how much personal information are you willing to divulge?

News Blips for Wednesday, July 27, 2011: Portal 2 tops Steam's best sellers; Disney is looking to take over UTV Ignition; Capcom originally planned Ultimate Marvel vs Capcom 3 as DLC; and more.

Check out May's most-read submissions from the Bitmob community. Did you make the list?

Prey 2 wowed us more than Skyrim. Are you shocked? We know you are. Read on and allow us to explain why.

Why do we treat innovative games the same as those that offer "more of the same" when they both have been created in the same amount of time? We should be more tolerant with glitches and design flaws in original titles compared to the same problems in sequels.

Brink has been catching a bit of flak from critics, but at least it's not as bad as the Disney Channel original movie Brink!

Co-operative campaigns need to incorporate better stories and narrative; otherwise, what’s the point?

This week's Reviews Spotlight offers a slightly different group this time. We take a look at Brink, Dragon Age 2, and two gaming peripherals: the PDP Mortal Kombat Fight Stick and the Turtle Beach PX5 Headset.

Brink had a lot of new and interesting ideas that didn't quite work out, so what would make them better? Let's help a game to its feet, rather than take shots at it below the belt.

A few months ago, a talented group of videographers based in the U.K. got in touch with us about a potential collaboration. This is the result, or at least the first result: a behind-the-scenes look at Brink developer Splash Damage.

Escapist Editor-in-Chief Russ Pitts argues that gamers devastate the industry through used purchases from retailer GameStop, but do consumers really owe developers and publishers anything?

Ars Technica knows I’m excited about Brink. They’ve also taken the interesting step of not reviewing their Xbox 360 copy until it receives much-needed patches.