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The industry has declared war on consumer rights. Their missiles -- always-on DRM, online passes, digital distribution -- run the gamut. But the intent is the same: to kill the secondary market, destroy the notion of “ownership,” and control all means of distribution.

At PAX Prime 2011, Kim Swift demoed Quantum Conundrum for the first time. As you’ll see, QC carves its own niche, while paying tribute to the rich legacy of Portal. Fans of Valve’s physics-based puzzler will feel right at home.

The latest from Portal co-creator Kim Swift is a physics-based puzzler called Quantum Conundrum. So...kind of like Portal.

David Jaffe hears voices. Don't worry; he's perfectly sane. His creative vision "speaks" to him...something about angry Greek albinos and anthropomorphic ice cream trucks.

A proper introduction to Jason Lomberg: Bitmob editor, Phillies/Eagles fan, and all around great guy. Yes, ladies, he's single.

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.

Some folks think Brown vs. EMA is a definitive victory for the industry and the validation of an art form. While this may be true, the war against games is far from over.

Most of us agree that video-game adaptations suck. And yet they keep making money. When audiences reward mediocrity, Hollywood keeps pumping it out.

L.A. Noire has many forebears, but one stands tall above the rest—Curtis Hanson’s “L.A. Confidential,” based on the hardboiled detective novel by James Ellroy.

Fox news ignores the facts in its recent debate over video games appearing in the NEA's 2012 Arts in Media Guidelines.

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?

As realistic as modern-day military FPSes like to think they are, they still pale in comparison to lots of today’s war movies (not to mention actual war). So what are these games getting wrong?

Something’s wonky in the consumer electronics industry. A certain three-dimensional bubble is on the verge of bursting. The captains of industry are betting the house on a technology that no one seems to want. Meanwhile, the gaming press has seemingly done a complete 180 on the 3DS—from giddy to cautiously optimistic.

David Cage is urging developers to embrace cinematic storytelling tropes. But is this really appropriate for every type of game?

It’s time to take a stand. For too long, those corporate fatcats at Sony have given us thousands of hours of glorious entertainment without handing over the keys to the kingdom! The unconstitutional actions taken by Sony against George “geohot” Hotz cross the line. Our ceaseless campaign of prank phone calls won't stop until our demands are met.

Have fervent opponents of video games finally decided to start acting rationally?

At GDC 2011, Nintendo president Satoru Iwata discussed the figurative “race to the bottom”, wherein the low-ball pricing structure of iOS erodes the perceived value of AAA games. Similarly, on Mobcast #96, the gang discussed microtransactions and indie game development—one guest remarked that a steady diet of .99 iOS Apps had made Tactics Ogre’s $39.99 seem excessively high. I believe this is endemic of a pernicious entitlement mentality that has expressed itself among gamers in recent years.

At CES, I got to try out Waterloo Labs' eyes-only gaming tech ("electro-oculography"). The tech is actually intended for medical applications--paraplegics, those with amblyopia (“lazy eye”), etc. But as you'll see below, it makes for a very cool gaming peripheral. Enjoy!

Video games are a bipartisan affair, uniting the moral right and paternal left. Thus, we have figures as diverse as Brent Bozell and Hilary Clinton decrying gaming’s purported harmful influence. Fox News releases wildly-inaccurate news reports, and Lt. Col. David Grossman labels FPSs “murder simulators.” None of these people understand video games.

A Reddit user recently caught a BioWare employee giving Dragon Age 2 a perfect score on Metacritic. But does it really constitute a conspiracy?