With the awards season in full swing, excitement is growing around the games industry’s own blue ribbon awards, the GAME British Academy Video Games Awards, which celebrates and rewards creativity and innovation in the industry. Today, the UK’s leading games retailer and British Academy Video Games Awards sponsor, GAME reveals the shortlist for the only publically-voted award of this prestigious event, the BAFTA GAME Award.
The Award recognises the best game of the year, as chosen by GAME customers and the general public. Selected by a panel of esteemed representatives and …

The results are in and the 360G Community have spoken. In fact, with a resounding dragon shout, Skyrim was propelled up 7000 steps to High Hrothgar to its rightful place as 2011 Community GOTY. With titles like Gears of War 3, Battlefield 3, & Dead Space 2 making a strong showing, you’re sure to find a lot of your favorites in the Community Top Ten.

We’d like to thank everyone who participated and submitted a list. You might think there were just a few favorites and an undeniable gravitation to the …

So thats now 2011 behind us. And what a year it was. Whether you’re a fan of RPG’s, Shooters, Platformers or Racers, 2011 had it all. Starting out the year with the mighty Dead Space 2, the direct sequel to 2008s survival horror and closing up the year (well…the year worth talking about anyway) was The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword, the next iteration in this now 25 year old franchise.
If you haven’t had time or you’re still on Mass Effect 2 prepping your army for march then you’ve missed …

Unless you’ve been living under a rock for the last month or so, you can’t have missed out on how popular The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim has become. Developed by Bethesda, well known for their modern renditions of the Fallout franchise, Skyrim has taken the world of gaming by storm – selling more than 3.4 million copies in just the first two days, and gluing gamers all over the world to their lounge seats for days (or weeks) at a time. And the best thing about this runaway success is …

As a professional writer of tabletop role-playing games (the ‘pencil and paper’ kind), I’m well versed in selling to niche markets. Long have I wished that the love for tabletop RPGs (other than fantasy football…) would spread out into the general public. Instead, I’ve watched the market grow, then shrink, then grow, then shrink again, never really gaining any ground.

Of course, tabletop RPGs (TRPGs) really haven’t evolved in the last four decades. Sure, the genres have gone beyond simple fantasy war games, and new designers are always innovating rules, but …

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Gamers are trendsetters. Why else would we have such bad reputations if it weren’t for our uncanny ability to generate stereotypes about ourselves.  There’s the pot smoking COD player, the stinky expo queuers, the stunningly handsome amateur podcasters, etc.  …

Webby and Greedo with the Inside Xbox dudes

We get behind closed doors with Nolan North the star of Uncharted and Assassins Creed

Webby and Greedo with Nolan North. He is such a huge fan of the podcast that he even had our business card at hand

Greedo with the Dark side

Cinema Dan checking out Cat Woman

Inside the Developer Conference for Uncharted 3

Greedo loving abit of Zelda action

Webby posing

Greedo and Cinema Dan loving Mario

End of the first night

Webby and Voodoo with their new Onlive systems
Uncharted 3 Developer session
Battlefield Developer session
Webby and Peebs at …

I’ve been thinking a lot lately about your mum and the way the beads of sweat on her supple, mature body glisten with the glow of the neon sign from our cheap motel room. But I’ve also been thinking a lot about my gaming.  To this end, I thought I might help you burn a few minutes (while you’re at work) to explore our gaming time and choices a bit.  I promise you’ll be asking yourself all sorts of questions by the end of the page. (Like, does cheese smell …