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Ever wonder what's being dumped unto the shelves of video game stores every week? Wonder no more! Karli Winata will attempt to bring to light the many releases that come out each week. Won't you join him in his self torture? Check out what's coming out on the week of 3/26/2012.

The argument of whether or not video games are legitimately art ended last week when The Art of Video Games opened at The Smithsonian's American Art Museum in Washington, D.C.! Check out this interesting recap of all the exhibit has to offer, as well as some interesting thought you may have not realized about video games over the past 40 years!

Ever wonder what's being dumped unto the shelves of video game stores every week? Wonder no more! Karli Winata will attempt to bring to light the many releases that come out each week. Won't you join him in his self torture? Check out what's coming out on the week of 2/6/2012.

How much freedom should games give a player? What's the deal with bad writing in games? Our panel of community members discusses these questions and more in the Bitmob Roundtable.

In this month's reboot-themed episode of the Mobcast, the crew discusses what constitutes a reboot, which games deserve one, which franchises developers have successfully restarted, and which old PC titles could use a modern update.

Obsidian's surreal realms offers a deep insight into the subconscious and artificial intelligence like no other game. Here's some aspects of each realm that stand out from the rest.

Chris Melissinos, curator of the Smithsonian's The Art of Video Games, talks about the upcoming exhibition, its public voting process, and the evolution of gaming.

In this episode of the Mobcast, Britain invades! Freelancer Pete Davison and his well-known brother, GameSpot and Metacritic VP John Davison, join Bitmob's Dan Hsu and Brett Bates. The group discusses their early contenders for game of the year, genres and tropes that have fallen by the wayside, how younger people approach the medium, and more.

After a long decline, adventure games are back from the dead. Here are three reasons why they're thriving, and three ways to avoid a second demise.

Video Games Live, a concert series devoted entirely to video games, is an amazing show, but its creators boast that they're raising awareness of video games while presenting them to be something they're not.

Can you figure out which item does not belong in this video-game puzzler?

This week in video-game history we celebrate Nintendo's birthday. But that's not the only monumental event that happened in the last seven days, oh no.

Did you find Xbox Live's Summer of Arcade underwhelming? Check out Drawn: Dark Flight, a new adventure game from Big Fish Studios that's sure to scratch that downloadable-game itch.

The "Video games as Art" debate has, for some, been played out. For others the discussion has really only just begun. "We" examine movie critic Roger Ebert's role in the debate as compared to our own industry pundits. Is Ebert "ill-informed or troll-tastic"? Do his words "ring true" or is he just "a voice among many"?

Video Blips for April 15, 2010. A trailer for the hack-and-slash action of NIER, some otherworldly footage of Persona 3 Portable, a colorful look into the making of Split/Second, and more.

In the course of writing my three-part series on Mac gaming I came up with a lot of excess material, which I elected to cut in order to strengthen the individual pieces. But some of that material is worthy of publication, so I have collected the best 'outtakes' from the series and included a brief note explaining why it was cut.

A portrait of the rocky history of gaming on the Mac.

A collection of 22 must-play PC and console games that probably slipped under your radar.