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"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 Criterion Collection is well known for the restoration of classic films. With gaming having become a part of pop-culture; there is a demand for classic games that are at times unavailable. This is a logical look at why the Criterion Collection should take an interest at the restoration of iconic video games.

An overview of the ongoing Xbox Live hacking problem, theoretical causes of the attacks, potential fixes, and the stark difference between Microsoft's and Sony's responses to these kinds of network breaches.

Here they are: The hottest, most popular community articles from 2011, as written by you, the Bitmob community.

Peter Moore believes the future of gaming lives in the cloud, and he isn't the only one. When the revolution comes, how will it change gaming, variety, and the huge trade-in market offered by companies like GameStop and Best Buy?

Do we have reason to prefer buying games in their physical, retail format instead of through digital distribution?

While social media open up brand new ways to play games and interact with friends, how much personal information are you willing to divulge?

Hackers went a little crazy and the message Anonymous was trying to send looks like it will get lost in translation.

This is my review of the Sega Genesis classic, Sonic the Hedgehog.

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

Another hacking group broke into a Nintendo server to cause even more Internet paranoia among console gamers.

Sony officially announces the timeline for full restoration of PlayStation Network services.

Sony's public-relation missteps didn't start with the Great PSN Outage of 2011...they've said and done cringe-inducing things for years. Here's the best of the worst things Sony's done to hype the PlayStation 3.

Proving once and for all that true badassery is timeless.

One gamer confesses to accidentally turning off PSN. Is this the truth behind the network outage? Decide for yourself!

It took Sony 24 days to get the PlayStation Network back up and running, but earning back customer confidence will take much longer...and Sony only has itself to blame.

The long nightmare of the PSN outage is over...probably. Here's how Bitmob's Facebook and Twitter followers are feeling.

Escapist Editor-in-Chief Russ Pitts argues that gamers devastate the industry through used purchases from retailer GameStop, but do consumers really owe developers and publishers anything?

Simple research by a poster at Beyond3D reveals the often repeated claims that PSN servers ran old server software are bogus.

Although PSN is down, we still have much to play on our PS3s.