The most lasting monument that will be built to honor me is likely to be a simple gravestone with my name and dates of birth and death etched into it. A tombstone is an enduring memorial, but it’s also an impersonal one. It’s difficult to express the wonder and the turmoil of a single human […]

Nintendo still struggles with the Wii U, PlayStation Plus has MORE free games, Xbox Ones are leaking, and will the Resident Evil series improve?

Valve cofounder Gabe Newell has explained why the popular Seattle studio does not churn out Half-Life sequel after Half-Life sequel, even though it could have been successful doing so. “When we started out, we were a single-player video game company that could have been really successful just doing Half-Life sequel after Half-Life sequel,” Newell told […]

Square Enix’s 2012 well-received open-world action game Sleeping Dogs is now available as a free download for Xbox Live Gold subscribers on Xbox 360 as part of Microsoft’s Games with Gold program. The game is free through January 15. From January 16-31, Microsoft will offer Lara Croft and the Guardian of Light as a free […]

Danny celebrates the new year by listing the top five games he’s most looking forward to in 2014 in no particular order.

Steam, the online service from Half-Life and Portal studio Valve, continues to set records. More than 7.6 million of Steam’s 65 million members logged in yesterday, December 29, setting a new record for peak concurrent usage. This is up from 7 million recorded over the Thanksgiving holiday weekend and a high of 6 million in […]

One child made a surprising discovery Christmas morning. After snapping some images with a 3DS he received on Christmas, Tom Mayhew’s 8-year-old son found various pornographic images saved on the system, WAVY News 10 reports. “He went to play his games, not knowing anything was on it,” Mayhew said. “After a while, [the kids] took […]

Following up on December’s offer of a free copy Borderlands 2 for PlayStation Plus subscribers, Sony is upping the ante for January. Starting January 2014, PS+ members on PlayStation 3 can download a free copy of BioShock Infinite, DmC: Devil May Cry, and Brothers: A Tale of Two Sons. PlayStation 4 owners will be able […]

[UPDATE] GameStop is holding a special sale December 26-28, featuring games like Grand Theft Auto V, Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag, Gran Turismo 6, and Battlefield 4 for $40. Xbox One units are also back in stock. Check out the sale page for more. Meanwhile, Target says it has both Xbox One and PlayStation 4 […]

In this, the first of four articles, we look back at highs and lows of 2013, beginning with the unveiling of Sony and Microsofts’ consoles and our collective reactions prior to E3. 2013 has been on the most hectic, exciting years in gaming in a long time. The launch of the PlayStation 4 and Xbox […]