Computer/Console Gaming Category

It’s been a long time coming, but the female Commander Shepard is finally getting her time in the spotlight. Last year BioWare promised that FemShep would be starring in some Mass Effect 3 trailers, and even held a vote over Facebook to determine what the new default FemShep for Mass [...]

Skyrim update 1.4 became available yesterday on both PS3 and Xbox 360, and along with it came a fix for the PS3′s lag problem, which has been dubbed “Rimlag” by those unlucky enough to afflicted by the issues. Naturally, the patch features a ton of other fixes, but the lag [...]

Right before CES 2012 took place last month, rumors that claimed the next Xbox would feature a tablet controller similar to the Wii U’s started making the rounds. Those rumors said that the Xbox 720 would be revealed – or at least teased – at CES, but the show came [...]

As far as the video game community is concerned, 2011 will go down in history as the year of the security breach. Not only was the PlayStation Network completely brought down and kept offline for more than a month, but countless video game websites were hacked as well, often with [...]

Back when both DOTA 2 and Blizzard DOTA were announced, I was wondering why neither Valve nor Blizzard appeared to have a problem with the other company using the phrase DOTA in the title of their game. As it turns out, Blizzard does have a problem with Valve’s use of [...]

It was something of a surprise, reverberating throughout large chunks of the blogosphere that–surprise, surprise–ladies like the gadgetry too. Indeed, the word from the Consumer Electronics Association–you know, those guys who put on the Consumer Electronics Show every year?–says that eight out of ten ladies surveyed said they were interested [...]

After almost two years of waiting, Alan Wake is finally about to come to the PC. After all of the positive press the Xbox 360 version received back in 2010, there’s definitely going to be plenty of people ready to hand Remedy their money when Alan Wake launches on February [...]

We’ve already relayed some information from Activision’s recent financial report, but the fact that Modern Warfare 3 is one of the most popular games ever and that people are willing to hand over a subscription fee for a Call of Duty stat-tracking service isn’t all that surprising. What is surprising, [...]

You can complain all you want about how the Modern Warfare series isn’t bringing anything new to the FPS scene or even say that the Call of Duty series is bound to fail, but apparently millions of people will disagree with you. In fact, if anything the Call of Duty [...]

Tim Schafer is a legendary game designer, as many of you already know. He will go down in video game history as having a penchant for thinking outside of the box, but this ability to come up with quirky idea is something of a double-edged sword. Since he doesn’t always [...]