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These three titles should definitely help a casual player rediscover his or her passion for gaming.

Ding! You leveled. Feels good, doesn’t it? Almost like payday. Developers put character progression mechanics in games for one reason: incentive. Reward systems make or break games. Currency has a presence in game worlds that comes off as intuitive and natural. That’s why it’s the ideal reward system that all others imitate.

The things In Game Currency do to me and games in general.

Ever wonder what's being dumped unto the shelves of video game stores every week? Wonder no more! Karli Winata will attempt to bring to light the many releases that come out each week. Won't you join him in his self torture? Check out what's coming out on the week of 2/6/2012.

We sometimes don't realize how simple game design decisions can affect how we play a game. I take a look at three popular action game franchises, and show how something as simple as a scoring system tied to the combat can influence the player in different ways.

As an older medium, comics have a lot of lessons to teach games. Too bad games didn't listen.

News Blips for December 20, 2011. The PlayStation Vita sells 321,400 units after two days in Japan, Australia gives Syndicate the heave-ho, and Devil May Cry HD collection

Video Blips for December 8, 2011. An entire city rages against Dante in Devil May Cry, Soul Calibur 5's legendary warriors are locked in eternal struggle, Touch My Katamari pokes the funny bone of pool players and obvious euphemisms alike, and more.

Game worlds and concepts have become stale lately...developers need to explore something new.

The recent glut of "HD collections" from the PS2 is a sure sign of the impending end of the current console generation. Why is this happening all of a sudden? If you said money... well yes, that, but also other things.

Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3 is about assembling your own team of Avengers -- one that is greater than the sum of its parts.

I'm just not cut out to play through intense hardcore games these days. Battlefield 3 is just better suited for my busy lifestyle.

Video Blips for November 3, 2011. Saints Row: The Third coalesces every kind of vice imaginable within one sprawling city, Call of Duty Elite's Facebook integration lets you track your friends' failures and triumphs, see Agent 47 easily swap between silent killer and ruthless gunman in Hitman: Absolution, and more.

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

Crazy Crossover that should be explored.

Video Blips for September 15, 2011. The entirety of Dark Souls' prologue crashes upon us with the weight of a thousand dragons, see some more of Devil May Cry's combo-tastic action, wage a gargantuan battle for dominance of an orbital platform in Starhawk, and more.

Introducing a 26-year-old freelance writer from Southern California. Jonathan is still hoping for his big break writing anything other than hair removal articles.

Video Blips for August 16, 2011. The Gunzerker shows off his namesake in Borderlands 2, Commander Shepard and crew takes down an armored walker in Mass Effect 3, witness a 64-player Battlefield 3 game in its full glory, and more.

You've died in games before, but El Shaddai kills you like the insignificant worm you are, and that has an interesting effect on the player.

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.