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Why morality games are foundering, the fashionable solutions make them worse and mine will make them great.

News Blips for Wednesday, March 07, 2012

Being a picky gamer makes it difficult to find games I'll continue to play.

Does morality play a part in video games?

To the Moon is a new indie game by Ken Gao featuring breathtaking aesthetics and a truly thought-provoking story. In this interview, I ask Gao about his new game, its inspirations, and the lack of hair gel vendors in most JRPGs.

It heard that you like Demon Summoning so they put a Persona Gun in your Sim City so you can Demon Summon while you play city plan.

This week's Reviews Spotlight features VVVVVV, Street Fighter 3: Third Strike Online, Deus ExL Human Revolution, and more.

Skilled players should have no problem identifying games by looking at pictures of their endings. Right?

Most big-budget video games issue DLC packs intermittently within their first year of release, in the hopes of rekindling interest and generating more income for the developers post-launch. RailWorks 2, however, has kept the DLC stream going for well over three years -- that’s 82 packs in all (totalling more than $1,300).

With the blessing of receiving hundreds of quality games each year, there is also a downside for some other developers that see their dreams crushed. Some games deserve a little more time in the spotlight. Who knows, you might even find a game that surprises you with its presence? At least, I'm pretty sure you won't expect this number one entry!

Despite all the doom and gloom, the PC is not a dying platform.

This Week in Video-Game History is a little slow, but we get to celebrate the birthday of one of the most important figures in gaming. Happy birthday, Nolan Buschnell!

A gamer explores the depiction of homosexuality in Fable 3 and Fallout: New Vegas.

In this week's Mobcast, community members Michael Pangelina and Larry LeBron join Bitmob co-founders Demian Linn and Dan Hsu. The group discusses whether they prefer Halo or Call of Duty, the innovation of new gameplay mechanics, great stories set in less-than-desirable genres, the place of minorities in modern titles, and more.

A Bitmob editor documents a week in the world of The Sims 3.

User-generated content is the industry's newest business model, so should gamers get paid big bucks for the work they do? Turns some already are.

Video games are addictive, but are we really addicts? And how bad could that possibly be?

While the portrayal of women in games is a problem, is it really the biggest?

Minecraft is not only a pretty cool game, it's also a different kind of power fantasy that gives you great control over your world but does not asks you to rip a dudes head off.

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.