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In Payday: The Heist, you play as a cop killer who kills a whole lot of cops and earns big rewards for the cops you kill. Is that OK?

Tired of the same old control points, flag captures, and deathmatches? Here's five multiplayer modes that keep things interesting.

In this week's Mobcast, EGMi Senior Editor Patrick Klepek joins Bitmob's Brett Bates, Dan Hsu, and Demian Linn. The crew discusses their personal rules for game consumption; Gearbox's upcoming Duke Nukem Forever; which franchises they once loved, but no longer care for; and titles that redefined a genre.

A game should end better than it begins, but lately a lot of them don't stick the landing. Here's a quick primer on what's gone wrong and how to do it right.

This week, Dead Space 2 Community Manager Jay Frechette and Area 5's Matt Chandronait gather around the campfire with Bitmob's Brett Bates and Rus McLaughlin to talk about what scary games to right and wrong, their personal scariest moments from games, the horror of losing a save file, and what they'd write on the tombstone of the cheat code.

Are games in danger of putting style before gameplay? A few recent examples make me wonder.

Games are actually far more similar to music than they are to cinema. Could it be music, then, that finally provides us with alternatives to the horrid "casual" and "hardcore" labels? Could we start using the terms "pop games" and "classical games" instead?

Video Blips for August 12, 2010. Check out the debut of Bioshock: Infinite, the sweet RC car that comes with Call of Duty: Black Ops' Prestige Edition, an interactive trailer for Front Mission: Evolved, and more.

Cinematic trailers pervade this industry like a thick fog. Are they an effective tool for introducing the elements of an upcoming game to the masses?

Video Blips for August 6, 2010. Sonic Colors bedazzles the eyes and injures the ears with its music, Vanquish puts to rest any doubt of its manliness, NBA Jam's Trey Smith talks of authenticity, and more.

Video Blips for July 29, 2010. Check out a foreboding Halo: Reach trailer, the run-and-gun action in the grimy streets of Kane and Lynch 2: Dog Days, an informative video on the creation of Red Dead Redemption's soundtrack, and more.

Video Blips for July 21, 2010. Check out the new characters in Marvel vs. Capcom 3, a fresh trailer for Scott Pilgrim vs. The World: The Game, some shootout gameplay in Kane & Lynch 2: Dog Days, and more.

If games chose to self-censor their most violent and gory scenes, could they end up having a greater emotional impact on players?

Video Blips for July 13, 2010. The eponymous duo from Kane & Lynch 2 lays down the specifics of a plan, get an adrenaline rush from the perfect headshot in Sniper: Ghost Warrior, an overview of the classes in Divine Souls, and more.

Overwhelmed by all the new shooters announced at this year's E3? Fret not...here's a simple guide to them all.

Announcing the big winners (and losers) of our E3 2010 Non-Award Awards. This year, we include your winners (and losers) as well.

Video Blips for June 7, 2010. Check out a grimy Kane & Lynch 2: Dog Days trailer, a peak at the PBS documentary for Video Games Live, the debut of Red Faction: Armageddon, and more.

Video Blips for May 20, 2010. Take a look at some footage from Kane & Lynch 2's multiplayer, an action-filled clip of Knights Contract, the full trailer for Persona 3 Portable, and more.

Kane and Lynch 2's multiplayer levels were inspired by real-life heists. How do the stories created during a multiplayer session compare to the real thing?

Video Blips for March 19, 2010. Kane & Lynch 2: Dog Days get a not-so-warm welcoming in Shanghai, the Prince of Persia: The Forgotten Sands developers discuss the game, Trials HD has some brutal stunts, and more.