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I have a very love/hate relationship with games that let me make my own character. But lately I've started to question why I always pick a white, male human.

Can you pair up the celebrity voice actors with their video-game personalities?

Modern RPGs want you to make a love connection, but they all refuse to really commit.

The Weekend Recap fights a purple octopus and pays for sex for the fifth time.

News Blips for November 3, 2011. Grand Theft Auto 5 returns to sunny Los Santos, Battlefield 3 hasn't unseated the latest Call of Duty games in total Xbox Live activity, three Silent Hill games plan to chop your head off in early 2012, and more.

The Grand Theft Auto V trailer is a bounty of information about the next entry in the blockbuster series, if you're willing to get a little obsessive about it. But worry not -- we skipped our dose of antipsychotics so you don't have to!

Now that GTA V is official and a trailer is pending, I give my thoughts on what the game should be before anything is confirmed!

Bitmob's famous "My four-year-old son plays Grand Theft Auto" story made it all the way to a Chinese gaming magazine!

It's American setting has come to define the Grand Theft Auto series, does this mean it could ever be set elsewhere?

Part two of my journey to be a YouTube sensation sees me jump out of the frying pan and into the fire. What's a bitrate? Do I save in MP4 or WMV? And why does this crash noise come seconds after the actual crash?

Why do so-called "everyman" video-game characters fail to actually meet the definition of an "everyman"?

In this episode of the Mobcast, former Electronic Gaming Monthly staffers unite! Bigpoint's Michael Donahoe joins Bitmob's Demian Linn, Greg Ford, and Dan Hsu. The crew discusses their best EGM memories, which titles they've been playing recently, which reviews they wanted to write but didn't, and their New Year's gaming resolutions.

In this week's Mobcast, community members Michael Pangelina and Larry LeBron join Bitmob co-founders Demian Linn and Dan Hsu. The group discusses whether they prefer Halo or Call of Duty, the innovation of new gameplay mechanics, great stories set in less-than-desirable genres, the place of minorities in modern titles, and more.

News Blips for Dec. 9, 2010. The first details of Uncharted 3 are revealed, Rockstar gets sued by a Cypress Hill backup singer for using his likeness in Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, two more characters join the ballooning roster of Marvel vs. Capcom 3, and more.

Oftentimes, gamers seem to value the number of titles they play more than the experiences they have. Are video games a form of disposable media?

After countless robotic efforts from the likes of Rockstar and Bioware, Telltale shows them how to play cards in a narrative-based game.

News Blips for September 10, 2010. Paypal limits Minecraft developer's account, Treyarch plans to fight Call of Duty: Black Ops resale market by making a great game, Resident Evil: Afterlife is the "first video game movie filmed in stereoscopic 3D," and more.

Open-ended video games can be unpredictable in exciting -- and sometimes hilarious -- ways.

A short piece about playing games within the rules while redefining the objectives.