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Men of War: Condemned Heroes walks the line between "good A.I." and "fun A.I," which creates a fresh experience in the real-time strategy genre.

News Blips for February 16, 2012. Mass Effect 3 takes a ride on a beautiful balloon, Civilization 5 is expanding, and a bunch of people got married in Rift this week.

News Blips for Monday, January 9, 2012: First details for XCOM: Enemy Unknown; AT&T details pricing for PlayStation Vita 3G data; Call of Duty Elite's mobile apps are just about ready; and more.

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

News Blips for Wednesday, September 14, 2011: The man behind one of the worst movies ever gets his own video-game show; Civ 5: Game of the Year Edition bundles most of the title's DLC in one package; Codemasters shuts down the developer responsible for Bodycount; and more.

While Blizzard has axed mods for Diablo 3, Runic Games and Crate Entertainment discuss their support for user-generated content in the upcoming action-RPGs Torchlight 2 and Grim Dawn.

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

News Blips for Wednesday, May 11, 2011: Kotick says that console price cuts are "in the works;" MinecraftCon in Vegas is a possibility; Dark Souls will be arriving in October; and more.

Why does the games press only question social-network and mobile gaming's impact on the industry rather than feature those genres' successes?

In this week's episode of the Mobcast, Night Owl Games Art Director Peter Franco, PopCap Editorial and Social Media Director Jeff Green, and Community Director for Microsoft Connected Experiences Kathleen Sanders join Bitmob's Dan Hsu. The group discusses their favorite indie titles, the migration of celebrated developers to Facebook, and more.

For this Presidents' Day, we took a poll of the entire U.S. population of the top 10 gaming moments featuring the commander in chief. Then we threw those votes through an electoral system that made those votes worthless and decided those 10 moments ourselves.

Michael Soracoe (aka Sullla) observes how online communities unravel around bad sequels to well-loved franchises and how that's now happening to Civilization 5.

Michael Soracoe (aka Sullla) observes how online communities unravel around bad sequels to well-loved franchises and how that's now happening to Civilization 5.

I decided to look at four games from 2010 that force the player to face an unknown frontier and how we can relate those gaming experience to what settlers had to do in the North American expansion to the west.

News Blips for January 05, 2011: Ubisoft isn't killing its controversial DRM methods just yet, Jon Shafer joins Stardock, OnLive is coming to a TV near you (if it's a Vizio), and more.

Playing video games with my wife has made me think more critically about them. Plus, she'll destroy you at Settlers of Catan.

News Blips for December 15, 2010: Humble Indie Bundle makes over $600,000, Civilization 5 gets a gigantic patch, Spike's VGAs dip for fourth year in a row, and more.

In this week's Tweetbook Q&A, we ask Bitmob staffers and our Twitter and Facebook followers what they scored on Black Friday and Cyber Monday this year. What did you pick up?

Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more. (The campaign comes to its long-awaited conclusion.)

Tension and momentum build in this penultimate instalment of the Game Diary.