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In an attempt to chronicle and study the more than 50-year history of games, archivists have begun preserving games, consoles and game publications as cultural artifacts. This article profiles Stony Brook University's new game collection, breaks down some of the core principles of game preservation and takes a look at the future of the field.

I try to shed light on some money-savers for Aussie gamers on a tight budget. Some of these will work for those of you who live outside of the land of Oz as well. Happy bargain hunting!

Digital media robs consumers of the most fundamental of property rights: what’s mine is mine. For publishers, it’s win-win: reduced overhead, no first-sale doctrine, and a dead secondary market. For consumers, it’s a Faustian bargain: convenience in exchange for the forfeiture of ownership rights.

Peer inside the cloud, and see why Lou is concerned about the future of content distribution and ownership.

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

Damn this economic recession. Spending power is down and belts are tightened. And still there are idiots that spend frivolously. I am one of those poor Steam idiots. This is my sale tale.

Yesteryear, I longed for Steeam to offer an alternative to electronic payment, so that I might also enjoy it. Now that this day is here, I lament this feeling. Be careful what you wish for.

Steam's Summer Sale has arrived, already having made a dent in my wallet. While I love the opportunity to pick up games for a fraction of the retail price, I've come to fear Valve's circus of value. Do you have the stomach for nearly two weeks-worth of unbeatable value?

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

This is my review of Risk Factions, which is now available for download on Xbox Live Arcade, PlayStation Network and Steam.

I am not one to even try a tactics type of game because for me they are complicated. However, for awhile on steam there was this game nagging at me with witty humor, foolishness that should not work and an elegance many would over look. So the game I picked up is Grotesque Tactics: Bad Heroes on steam.

A beardful of laughs, Delve Deeper is a mixture of Worms, Lost Vikings and Lemmings. This Indie Steam title may well be worth your $5. Insert BEARDED thumbnail here.

Alright, so it's just the UK, but still. I'm only here for a few months, but I've run into my fair share of difficulties trying to keep up on my gaming habit. It's strange to say, given that gaming is a habit some people struggle to break, but the less games are a part of my life, the less I feel like myself.

A post-apocalyptic Mad Max universe that combines both RTS and FPS elements can't be bad. It's this idea that made APOX the game that it is today. Insert military thumbnail here.

Put on your robe and wizard hat for this reference-filled adventure of lulz and bugs that will thrill you and kill you. Insert funny thumbnail here.

Thanks to the various Christmas gifts I have received and the amazing annual holiday sale on steam I currently have a backlog of games that intimidates me in ways I can't explain. But I shall try. Mostly contributed to being a broke ass student this is the first time I have found myself in this position and coming up with a plan of attack has...

News Blips for December 06, 2010: IGN and Gamestop form an unholy alliance, Neil Patrick Harris will host the Spike Video Game Awards, OnLive plans to start video-streaming service, and more.

Multiplayer games can't seem to hold my attention for too long unless they have some sort of unlock and rank system, for stat whoring. Yet there are exceptions, and Team Fortress 2 is one of them. It's still being played Heavy-ly and updated by the developers three years after release. This is the chronicle of my first fifty hours of play.

Some people seem to think the success of Steam on the PC will directly transfer to the Mac platform, revitalizing Mac gaming. Unfortunately, it isn’t this simple. The Mac gaming market is a very different beast to its PC counterpart, and Steam may find an uphill battle in this world. Here’s why.

This summer's Steam sale has amazing prices on a lot of great computer games -- games you can play even if your PC (or Mac) isn't a NASA supercomputer.