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A recap of my 2011, a year that I spent staring at small screens instead of my TV. Includes my favorite games of the year!

Thinking I could help my girlfriend with this game, I learned that I could use some help with being patient.

Think voice chat makes online games easier? Contextual phrases work just as well without breaking immersion or colliding with language barriers.

In this month's reboot-themed episode of the Mobcast, the crew discusses what constitutes a reboot, which games deserve one, which franchises developers have successfully restarted, and which old PC titles could use a modern update.

A gamer reflects on how DLC dominated his gaming time in 2010.

Part 2 of Frank's look back at the games he played in 2010.

Achievements are serious business, but developers often flub them when it comes to multiplayer. Here are the best and worst multiplayer Achievements I've come across.

The NES is now officially 25 years old, a with it a gigantic library of classics. How have they aged in the last 20 to 25 years?

Multiplayer is fine and dandy for a lot of gamers, but not every game needs to have it. Blacklight: Tango Down and Castlevania: Harmony of Despair are two games that would be better without it.

Scott Pilgrim vs. the World, Madden NFL 11, and Castlevania: Harmony of Despair highlight this episode of The Geekbox.

The week, the Geekbox crew talks lots of games, including Castlevania: Harmony of Despair, Metroid: Other M, EVE Online, and more!

Why are reviewers who enjoyed Castlevania: Harmony of Despair being harsher on the game just because it's not following "the formula?"

Xbox Live's Summer of Arcade Line-up, an indie game criticizing the BP oil spill, the state of storytelling in games and more await in this edition of the Community Spotlight.

Here it is: Bitmob's not-so-definitive Top 10 Games of E3.

Nothing says summer like staying indoors with the blinds closed and playing video games! Starting in July, Microsoft will begin releasing one game a week, for five weeks; and while it’d be pretty hard to beat last year’s releases for the Summer of Arcade event (Mavel Vs Capcom 2, ‘Splosion Man, Trials HD), the line-up is looking surprisingly good.

In terms of pure surreality, Konami's media briefing bested the Cirque du Soleil of Microsoft's Kinect event and the laser tag and don't-call-it-a-vitality-sensor of Ubisoft's press event. When else will you see luchadores in teeny bikinis, a multicultural Abbott and Costello schtick, and Def Jam mogul Russell Simmons, all in the span of two hours?