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Analyst PW Singer, of the Brookings Institution, has written several books examining how warfare and the military…

There are plenty of games out there that posit alternate realities. Upcoming MMO The Secret World bases its whole…

I spend a lot of time with the quarian lately; she's become my favorite. Though if I'm being strictly honest, she's…

MTV has been active in encouraging younger voters to get to the polls for well over 20 years. In 1992 they brought…

Game designers and enthusiasts have, for many years, faced the challenges of preserving history in a digital…

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology has a long (long) history of student "hacks," harmless but clever pranks.…

Free-to-play games are all the rage here in 2012. With MMOs, social games, and mobile games leading the way, some…

A preschool-aged boy in Saudi Arabia reportedly fatally shot his father this weekend because of a PlayStation.

Usually when "video games" and "depression" show up in a sentence together, there's a research team trying to prove…

Do you want to be able to connect to your Battlefield, Need For Speed, and Sims, games at all times? Do you want to…

Apple CEO Tim Cook and Valve head Gabe Newell did not actually meet last week as rumored, according to a new…

Staying current on gaming isn't cheap. The consoles themselves cost about $300, and new retail games launch at $60.…

The last few years have been rough for British game developer and publisher Codemasters. Despite a lengthy and…

We know video games are big in pop culture: millions of us, of all ages, play them every day. We know they're big…

BioWare's Dragon Age franchise, like its science fiction spiritual sibling Mass Effect, creates a great deal of…

One case modder out there in the world has finally found a use, a true purpose, for the featureless square "houses"…

Microsoft has Xbox Live; Sony has the PlayStation Network. Nintendo technically has WiiWare, but their download…

He was a stranger. I knew his first name, and he mine, but that was the extent of our acquaintance.

Last month, we first saw concept art from Disney's upcoming animated feature Wreck-It Ralph. Set inside the world of…