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This week's Reviews Spotlight features Chrono Cross, L.A. Noire, Saints Row: The Third, and more.

In a storyline-driven genre like role playing, a good setting can end up being a game's most important element.

Do we have the right to be disintereted in a successful franchise?

Amazon just started a crazy sale on select 3DS, DS, and PSP games. While not all of them are worth your time, some you cannot pass up.

In the latest Bitmob Roundtable, four Bitmobbers discuss the state of the JRPG genre and whether things are as bleak as they appear.

The DS has a lot of great games that, for whatever reason, weren’t commercial successful in one territory or another, or that publishers simply deemed too risky to bring over in the first place. Here's my five favorite, criminally-under-played games.

In this week's Tweetbook Q&A, we ask Bitmob's Twitter and Facebook followers what they want for Christmas and which TV shows they want made into games. Join the conversation!

From the humble Game Boy link cable to the 3DS's Crosspass system, Nintendo's handheld communications have always paralleled the development of phones & telecommunications.

Part 5 of the ultimate JRPG buyer's guide.

Nine great strips from Penny Arcade...don't miss them.

Travis McReynolds recently lost a loved one, and his loss has him thinking about how games and other media treat death.

What game developers need to do to make collectibles fun.

The final installment of my Penny Arcade Expo 2009 coverage.

I haven't abandoned action games (at this rate, I'll be playing Team Fortress 2 until the day I die), but three years ago, you wouldn't have gotten an ounce of enthusiasm out of me for Final Fantasy XIII, and now its one of my most anticipated games. I get it now.