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Developers need to stop snatching control from players with short cut-scenes. Instead, start trusting them to figure things out on their own.

Games either want to hold your hand or leave you without any information at all. How can developers walk this fine line?

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 3/28/2011.

News Blips for March 17, 2011. The results of the BAFTA Video Game Awards are in, Frontier's David Braben clarifies his Metacritic idea, Volition still supports the PC even in the face of piracy, and more.

How important is in-game music?

Part 2 of Frank's look back at the games he played in 2010.

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.

A Bitmob writer's details his friend's fascination with Metacritic and explains why he won't go gaga for a game with score lower than 85.

News Blips for December 10, 2010: Mass Effect is probably going to be at the VGAs tomorrow with a surprise in tow, EA thinks that gaming offline is finished, Square Enix CEO apologizes for Final Fantasy 14 and delays the PS3 release, and more.

Juan captures the watershed moment of multiplayer gaming, only when the pawning of noobs becomes standard.

In this week's Tweetbook Q&A, we ask Bitmob staffers and our Twitter and Facebook followers what they scored on Black Friday and Cyber Monday this year. What did you pick up?

Wherein we discuss Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part 1 (spoiler warning!), Donkey Kong Country Returns, Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit, Pac-Man Championship Edition DX, World of Warcraft: Cataclysm, Xbox Live politics, The Walking Dead (spoiler warning #2!), Doctor Who, Netflix’s content-streaming strategy, and more.

We're looking for articles about Assassin's Creed Brotherhood, Gran Turismo 5, Donkey Kong Country Returns, and Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit.

In a weird experiment I try to avoid games that require any language skills at all and find the results surprising.

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 11/15/2010.

Video Blips for Nov. 4, 2010. Shred some air with your brand new Kinect in Sonic Free Riders, sing along to a well-known childrens' song in Dead Space 2, leave the police in the wake of your burning tires in Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit, and more.

In this week's Tweetbook Q&A, the Bitmob community discusses actors for roles in video-game movies and which holiday releases to look forward to.

Video Blips for October 4, 2010. Check out the new Fez gameplay video (!), a look at the shooter Vanquish from game director Shinji Mikami (Resident Evil series), the latest Need for Speed: Hot Pursuit trailer, and more.

A lot of newer racing titles have trouble making it to the finish line. Has the genre fallen out of fashion with the average gamer? Or are the just really hard to make?

Video Blips for July 30, 2010. Check out the awesomely hardcore Fractured Soul, Spider-Man creator Stan Lee talking about Spider-Man Shattered Dimensions, a producer interview for Goldeneye 007, and more.