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A tale of leaving the World of Warcraft behind and rediscovering the vast, wonderful world of gaming beyond Azeroth. Complete with mention of robotic turtles, Congo Bongo, and much more. For anyone considering leaving WOW, this is worth a read.

We need more games that force players to make tough choices and deal with the consequences.

Find out what one player wants to see in the upcoming Elder Scrolls MMO.

If you consider all video games to be art, it renders the category meaningless and demeans the medium in the process. We need to be more selective about what deserves that label.

PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale is clearly a rip off of Super Smash Bros. But why is that necessarily a bad thing? Short Answer: It isn't. Long Answer: Click the link to read why!

An amazing singer adds haunting lyrics to some of the best themes from Mass Effect.

A gamers love for Mass Effect, turned bittersweet.

The first episode of The Walking Dead video game has been released, and boy, is it a doozy. In lieu of a proper forum here on Bitmob, I thought it'd be fun to do a book club-type of discussion as each episode gets released every month. Join us, won't you?

Character developer is alive and well in BioWare's Mass Effect series, and this points to video games as the future of storytelling.

Like the title says these are my favorite video game soundtracks of all time.

In this week's Community Spotlight, we jump in the pilot's seat of Hawken's mechs, look at how social media has affected the gaming community, and get indoctrinated in Mass Effect 3. Maybe. Or maybe not. You'll probably never know.

Keiji Inafune keeps going around saying Japanese games are crap. He's been doing so for a few years now. But what are his reasons for saying so, and why do we still care? More importantly, why haven't game journalists press him with hard-hitting questions to qualify his accusations?

News blips for April 12, 2012. Kinect comes to Skyrim, Sony reorganizes, The Old Republic gets families, and more.

Conservative groups? Gay agenda? Forget 'em. Gender bending and sexual experimentation is intrinsic to video games...and has been for decades.

Exercising my brain muscle. I decided to try and rewrite Mass Effect, for fun.

As games begin looking and feeling more realistic than ever, shouldn't our characters (specifically, our male and female ones) actually perform their tasks like they would in real life?

Are the hidden costs of digital distribution inherently anti-consumer?

In this week's Community Spotlight, we continue our journey in Shadow of the Colossus, talk even more about the story of Mass Effect 3 (and games in general), and cap things off with Halo's Master Chief doing something you might not expect. (No, it doesn't involve Cortana. Sickos.)

With Western franchises becoming more successful and influential, what will Japanese games need to do to regain our attention?

All of this hullaballoo over Mass Effect 3 got me thinking about my experience with the trilogy. In this op-ed, I discuss how BioWare created the illusion of a storytelling partnership with the player and why that might lead to ending disappointment.