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In this week's Community Spotlight, we look at an interesting indie game, analyze the new Pokemon's effect on the 3DS, share some food in I Am Alive, and bump into monsters until they die in Ys Chronicles. (It's more fun than it sounds.)

Side content can often seem like it's shoehorned in at the last minute to increase replayability, but in I Am Alive, Ubisoft Shanghai fills the world with pitiful characters in need of your hard-earned supplies. It's you or them - what do you choose?

Someone behind Ubisoft's survival adventure I Am Alive really knew how to build the kind of suspense its genre demands, but one thing undermines all that built-up tension.

While the big AAA-titles draw all the hype, here are five smaller (but no less ambitious) upcoming games that deserve your attention in 2012.

Video blips for January 23, 2012. Get pumped for the new digital title, I Am Alive, new character in Skullgirls, new fights in Soul Calibur 5, and a new popular character in Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3.

Video Blips for January 19, 2012. Check out the upcoming content for Star Wars: The Old Republic, learn about Max Payne 3's combat tech, fend off looters and bandits with a shine of the old .45 in I Am Alive, and more.

Video Blips for Dec. 16: Q.U.B.E., Twisted Metal, I Am Alive, and more.

Piracy is definitely a problem for PC gaming, but companies like Ubisoft are fighting it the wrong way.

Ubisoft is increasingly finding the rewards of PC development not worth the risk of piracy.

Piracy on PC is practically unavoidable in this day and age but should that really get in the way?

The Weekend Recap will take you to the movies, then curb-stomp your face.

News Blips for September 29, 2011. Battlefield 3 producer Patrick Bach always feels there's room for improvement, Gears of War 3 sells a whopping 3 million copies so far, and I Am Alive gets a release date.

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.

Film studios make billions of dollars off of disaster movies. Why aren't more game makers interested in tapping this potential?

News Blips: Ubisoft Delays Crapload of Games, Fat Princess This Thursday, Dead Space, and More.