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In this week's episode of the Mobcast, GameZone's Ben PerLee and Chemical Bun Productions' Carlos Rodela join Bitmob's Brett Bates and Demian Linn. The crew discusses the newly launched 3DS, films that find inspiration in video games, the dangers of facile gameplay, and more.

Swarm is a great downloadable game that helps you channel your inner a-hole, but it's missing one little thing.

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.

Alright, so it's just the UK, but still. I'm only here for a few months, but I've run into my fair share of difficulties trying to keep up on my gaming habit. It's strange to say, given that gaming is a habit some people struggle to break, but the less games are a part of my life, the less I feel like myself.

Check out 10 of the best indie titles to come out in 2010. The year had zombies, soccer, creepy dolls, dreamy worlds, aliens, good stories, great characters, humor and plenty of combat.

Recently, we asked you to select your favorite Bitmob community articles from last year. Now, we'd like your help picking the best games of 2010 -- but we're going to ignore the traditional (read: boring) ranking system and instead turn the selection process into a game itself. Check this post for more information.

Welcome to the Mobcast Holiday Clip Show, hosted by your favorite Bitmob editor, James DeRosa. (Who!?) It's a sitcom-style clip show featuring favorite Mobcast clips from Bitmob's editors. Guests include Seanbaby, Tim Schafer, and more!

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.

Think it's hard to support your gaming habit? Try living on an island in Alaska like this gamer.

DeathSpank's unique visuals have me wondering whether the makers of Generic Big-Budget Shooter XYZ are after the wrong prize. Should developers abandon the race to realism and focus on interpreting reality instead? The art movements of the 19th century may provide the answer.

News Blips for September 27, 2010: A mock trial of the violent-video game supreme court case rules against games, Bungie "accidentally" hints at Halo: Reach DLC, Ron Gilbert and Tim Schafer reunite at last, and more.

This week's debut of The Twitter Verdict -- which focuses on Twitter users' responses to the goings-on of the games industry -- asks a simple yet semi-controversial question: how soon is too soon for a DeathSpank sequel?

From the intellectual to the hyperviolent, this week's Reviews Spotlight runs the gamut of media flavors.

Wherein we discuss alien invaders, boring jobs, DeathSpank, Limbo, digital distribution ad nauseam, StarCraft II’s impending release, San Diego Comic-Con 2010, the Avengers movie, the Burn Notice movie, the Suicide Squad videogame, Street Fighter x Tekken, Marvel vs. Capcom 3, the Avengers’ new comic book line-up, and more.

If you read many of my articles I show favoritism to the companies I like. One of the main companies I have always enjoyed is RARE. These are my thoughts and no one is prompting me to say this stuff at all or in any way. Now time for me to go into when I think talent maybe wasted at RARE.

Deathspank - Ron Gilbert's latest release - comments on the very nature of the games industry. This definitely makes it an important game, but does everything click nicely or are Gilbert's comments themselves hypocritical?

DeathSpank's humor might not make every player laugh, but there's a solid -- if dated -- RPG experience to be had.

DeathSpank is an awesome action RPG, with a great sense of humor, beautiful art work, solid RPG trappings, and controls that generally work -- at least most of the time. But when you run up against a boss that takes real gamepad skills, it just gets too hard. At least for me.

I don’t understand game pricing one bit, but as a gamer I sometimes get great deals, but others I just wonder why. Take for example Mario Kart for the DS which has been out for four years at the same price of 34.99.

So this game came out back on Tuesday for the PSN and Wednesday for the Xbox 360. I won't say that this won't be on the Bandwagon or one sided. At least I am honest so if you don't want to read this biased based review of the demo then find another great Bitmob article.