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My better late then never review of Mirror's Edge.

Small yet irritating things that games do

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

"Fuck secondhand buyers." "Whatever. I don't mind." These voices in favor of online passes are too loud and too quiet, respectively, and they're the sentiments I usually see on this side of the debate. Some of the nay party’s arguments are flawed, too, so here's my case for the ayes.

The only problem with the platforming in games like Uncharted is that the platforming kinda sucks.

You don't want deals. You don't want high-end electronics or cars with bows on them. Our panel of iconic game characters knows what you really want for the holidays, and it's a basket of kickin'-your-ass awesome.

Violence and games have been sadly, inextricably connected, and mindless violence diminishes any point a game tries to make. We need a fresher, more clever approach to violence in games.

It's the battle royale of 2011, and our panel of iconic game characters hashes out who will win: Battlefield 3 or Modern Warfare 3.

Why do you play Prince of Persia games? Is it more for the moment to moment joy of platform jumping or just the story? What if there was no story at all? Wouldn't that be better?

Everybody deserves a sequel, right? Our all-star panel of game characters weigh the pros of rolling new games off the annual assembly line and the cons of cutting franchises short.

News Blips for Friday, September 02, 2011: Infinity Ward is making some changes to how kill streaks work in Modern Warfare 3; Activision funded the Find Makarov fan filmmakers, and Mirror's Edge 2 is a reality.

Introducing a 26-year-old freelance writer from Southern California. Jonathan is still hoping for his big break writing anything other than hair removal articles.

Today, we discuss crossovers in gaming. The best, the worst...and whether they even work in the first place. Starring Capcom fighting-game expert Seth Killian, Area 5 co-founder Ryan O'Donnell, and Bitmob's Dan "Shoe" Hsu and Demian Linn.

Our panel of management-level game characters weigh in: Should developers unionize, or are code monkeys made to be trampled?

We've all played the must-have Triple-A titles like Call of Duty and Alan Wake--but how often do we pass by could-be gems like Two Worlds II or Alone in the Dark? Join Pixel Perfect Assoc. Editor Jason Parris as he looks to the value that B-Games have for our industry in his comparative look at Alan Wake and Alone in the Dark.

Check out June's most-read submissions from the Bitmob community. Did you make the list?

Bitmob staffers pick their top three shooters from E3.

Mirror's Edge; Are you ready for this?

If we ever see a Mirror's Edge sequel, it could learn a lot from its Flash-based brother, Mirror's Edge 2D.

We did it! One more E3 without handing out traditional awards like so many county-fair blue ribbons. We do, however, have a whole stack of our Non-Award Awards to bestow on a variety of sort-of-lucky or not-at-all lucky recipients....