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Dead Island's amazing trailer promised an emotional roller-coaster, but that's not what Dead Island is. Here's how to get the game we saw in that three-minute spot.

What do game characters do when they're not busy shooting, jumping, and dismembering their way to a better tomorrow? Our panel of gaming greats spills their secret pastimes.

In SOCOM 4's new 32-player Bomb Squad mode, only one guy truly matters...and that changes how everyone plays the game.

What caught Bitmob's attention at GDC 2011? Oh, just the future of gaming. And smell-o-vision evolved.

Crysis 2 in 3D might make for an interesting visual gag, but does it make the game better?

El Shaddai is a big, beautiful bag of biblical insanity. That's why it deserves your full attention.

Excited to play Dead Island? Then forget its really cool trailer.

Two very good reasons you should never bother to cover old ground...and the one thing that could invalidate them both.

Are music games deader than Elvis? Our roundtable of gaming icons weigh in on the (possible) demise of a genre.

Rampant sexism is a core component of gaming's DNA, from developers to players to the journalists who cover them. But there is a solution.

Guitar Hero's franchise cancellation might be bad news for its supporters, but it's even worse news for Call of Duty fans.

A game should end better than it begins, but lately a lot of them don't stick the landing. Here's a quick primer on what's gone wrong and how to do it right.

When Roger Ebert said "video games can never be art," he nailed a major issue facing the industry...and issued a compelling challenge.

Mark Wahlberg as Nathan Drake? It makes perfect sense in Hollywood, and that's why video game movies are almost always horribly miscast.

If you're a gamer, you fail. A lot. And you wouldn't have it any other way.

Episodic games aren't big now, but they're going to take over the industry. Here's why.

Quick-time events suck, even in otherwise great games, but Heavy Rain showed us how to make a great QTE-focused game.

As the year draws to a close, some of gaming's biggest icons share their resolutions for 2011.

Every game needs one truly memorable moment, and Battlefield: Bad Company 2: Vietnam nails it perfectly.

What's Tron: Evolution's biggest problem? It's a movie tie-in game.