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News Blips for March 8, 2012. Meet BioShock Infinite's presidential Terminator, Deadly Premonition is coming to PS3, and Warner Bros. is bringing MMOs to the cloud.

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

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.

Another year, another slew of sequels and reboots. But fear not! Here are five original titles to look forward to in the remainder of 2011.

The Senate may soon pass Bill S.978, which could penalize video gamers posting copyrighted material on websites like YouTube and Facebook with fines and jail time. Is this necessary in the fight against piracy?

Bad games happen to good people. Fortunately, there's help. All it takes is a proper mindset and some helpful tips to make a subpar game a worthwhile experience.

In this week's episode of the Mobcast, Epic Games Design Director Cliff Bleszinski, Ignition Entertainment Director of New Business Development Shane Bettenhausen, and 343 Industries Content Producer David Ellis join Bitmob's Dan Hsu. The group discusses the creation of new game types, the evolution of price-pointing, the future of controllers, an

Here they are: The most-read community stories of the year. See what the Bitmob staff had to say about them.

A gamer talks about limiting himself in a way that forces himself to play games he doesn't really like just to be able to play the games he loves. Oh yeah and also because it sort of helps reduce his massive backlog.

These 10 games didn't get a fair shake from reviewers or even the gamers themselves.

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

It's a New Year, and (30) Days of RPGs is back to inform you on the month's RPG releases, including Kingdom Hearts Re:coded, DC Universe Online, Two Worlds 2, and Lord of Arcana.

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.

Frank looks back at all 76 games he played this year.

One gamer ponders television shows that Telltale should turn into adventure games.

Ten of the best horror video game covers of our time. Games is art debate rages on, but these horror covers are definately art.

Wherein we discuss Reservoir Dogs-style openings, Castlevania: Lords of Shadow, camera angles, budget price points, Deadly Premonition, Monkey Island creator Ron Gilbert’s new job, Final Fantasy 14, Minecraft, Civilization 5, accessibility in games, lots of TV shows, Venture Bros. non-talk, DC Comics’ new editor-in-chief, and more.

What are the 5 best bad games of this console generation? Read on to find out...

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