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In this episode of the Mobcast, Britain invades! Freelancer Pete Davison and his well-known brother, GameSpot and Metacritic VP John Davison, join Bitmob's Dan Hsu and Brett Bates. The group discusses their early contenders for game of the year, genres and tropes that have fallen by the wayside, how younger people approach the medium, and more.

After a long decline, adventure games are back from the dead. Here are three reasons why they're thriving, and three ways to avoid a second demise.

I feel that some games currently made and promoted as full titles would be much better if they were cut up into episodic chunks.

As more developers try to forge a symbiotic relationship between gameplay and narrative, here are five games that did it best.

Every game I played in 2009 reviewed.