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This week's Reviews Spotlight features Diablo III, Prototype 2, Minecraft, and more.

Based on the Russian Novel by Dimitry Glukhovsky, Metro 2033 is a highly overlooked gem from 2010. Seriously, check this out!

Generating sympathy with causes, movements and/or people in games is tricky, as they cannot evoke it in the same way movies do. The player needs to feel sympthy, not the character he/she is playing. The guerrilla setting of Homefront and Red Faction: Guerrilla is one place where it all could be so right, but it all failed so badly.

News Blips for Monday, January 16, 2012: THQ refutes claim that it has canceled its 2014 lineup of games; Dead Rising 2 dev working on a new property for Capcom; and Mass Effect 3 won't be available on Steam.

Do you want to be good or evil? You don't have to have played a lot of video games to see that choices often boil down to these abstract, polarized terms. In this article, I delve into how games may deliver more meaningful choices. For choices to have true meaning, the players mustn't know they're making them.

17th century political theorist Thomas Hobbes could've coined the entire post-apocalytpic genre of games with his theory of the state of nature.

Video Blips for June 1, 2011. Live out your cyberpunk fantasies in Deus Ex: Human Revolution, test your detective skills even more with L.A. Noire's bonus content, feel fear once again in Aliens: Colonial Marines, and more.

News Blips for May 31, 2011. Details on the Call of Duty Elite service, a hacker group named "LulzSec" intends to continue the attacks on Sony, the ESRB describes some of the bizarre creatures encountered in Catherine, and more.

An interesting story and post-apocalyptic setting can't make up for a boring ride.

This week, Kusoge Sunday dives into the exploitative world of Russian anime action title X-Blades. Believe it or not, it's even worse than it sounds.

A teacher living in Japan shares his reactions to the recent natural disasters and questions the general lack of docu-games.

A gamer talks about limiting himself in a way that forces himself to play games he doesn't really like just to be able to play the games he loves. Oh yeah and also because it sort of helps reduce his massive backlog.

Frank looks back at all 76 games he played this year.

What does the Bitmob Staff want for Christmas? A whole lot of games that only Santa Claus can deliver.

Bitmob and Alan Wake inspired one community member to return to writing fiction.

The tale of a harrowing, but brief encounter in the oppressive world of Metro 2033.

Splinter Cell: Conviction has caused one gamer to consider the pros and cons of changing game conventions. Does the practice attract new audiences or merely irritate fans?

We interviewed the author of the Metro 2033 novel to find out about his gaming background, what other piece of literature he feels needs to be turned into a game, and how he feels about multiple endings to a story that originally had only one. Oh, and he says something we think the Metal Gear Solid developers ought to pay attention to....

The Bitmob Reviews Spotlight has returned, and it's looking more sleek, slim, and attractive than ever! This content-rich version features Tetris lookalikes, abnormally long reviews, and spooky Russian tunnels.

Those helmets look real nice, but is Metro 2033 worth spending your military-grade bullets for?