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Contrary to popular belief, video games can be good for kids: Here's why it can help to put them in front of the controller.

Something pretty exciting happened a few days ago. Tim Schafer obtained, though Kickstarter, 1,7mil $ in pledges for an unnammed, unspecified point and click adventure game no one wants to publish or fund. If this picks up as a trend, we will finally see more auteur-driven games instead of publisher-driven ones. Auteurs like David Jaffe, Tetsuya T

Dominion? A tabletop game on a video game website? There's an iOS version coming soon, so it's kind of relevant. Read on to hear my tale of discovering Dominion and the joy it has brought me.

Money talks even in video games. Write about in-game currencies and point systems for this month's Bitmob Writing Challenge.

News Blips for January 5, 2012. Game Informer teases new strategy title XCOM: Enemy Unknown, Epic Games opposes SOPA, and BioWare pledges weekly patches for Star Wars: The Old Republic.

Here they are: The hottest, most popular community articles from 2011, as written by you, the Bitmob community.

Facebook and mobile game developer just announced their first sequel, Mafia Wars 2, which looks a lot like a Grand Theft Auto-themed Civilization game.

With an ongoing recession and the fear of "growing up" looming over everyone's heads, here are three great ways to stretch your gaming dollar.

My description, just as my title, was not really a part of my vision for this socialist comic. It's a childlike drawing and perhaps it will contain some sort of message or commentary, you decide.

Keiji Inafune is just one of gaming's iconic developers who traded big budgets for creative liberties. Read on to know why.

Scientists have created a computer that does what few gamers do: it learns to play games by reading the manual.

Damn this economic recession. Spending power is down and belts are tightened. And still there are idiots that spend frivolously. I am one of those poor Steam idiots. This is my sale tale.

CivWorld replaces the soul of the series with an unshakable sensation of waiting for something interesting to happen.

Sid Meier's Civilization World has finally been released!

Arnar reflects on how his experiences when starting to play video games have helped him in life and how video games can be used as a learning tool. How video games sparked his interest in a foreign language and taught him some life lessons.

I can hear the shuffling sounds of people at market, mumbles of their chatter, clanking of construction, and sounds of the Earth around me. Hail the Age of Empires.

To accurately represent warfare, games must engender a sense of collaboration toward an overarching strategic aim, not focus on the tactical weeds of individual effort.

A lifelong PC gamer shares his story about overcoming bias to expand his horizons and enjoy a console.

Gamers Heart Japan video special: The video-game community shows its admiration for Japan & its role in the industry.

You voted, and we counted. Here are the winners of the 2010 Community Awards.