It’s always weird to see a “hardcore” PC series get transmogrified into a console-friendly title, and always a little bittersweet. On the one hand, it’s great to see new moneymaking opportunities for a quality series that deserves some revenue, but on the other, it sucks to see that same series …

Perhaps it seems a bit silly to be complaining about how a game will soon devour everyone’s free time, especially in this age where games are mostly getting shorter and we’re always crying about how we’re not getting our $60 worth, but dammit, we’re still terrified of certain impending releases …

Marvel’s latest superhero movie Captain America: The First Avenger is out next month, and they’ve just released a brand new trailer to remind us all about it. Unveiling a slew of new footage, this new look at the movie delves further into the sequence of events that leads to weedy …

Don Cheadle has revealed Iron Man 3 will probably shoot next February, as well as talking up a possible spin-off for his character War Machine. During press for his new film The Guard , in which he plays a ruthless FBI agent who’s teamed up with Brendan Gleeson’s curmudgeonly police …

The Game Critic E3 2011 Award nominees have been revealed, and it appears BioShock Infinite, Uncharted 3: Drake’s Deception and Batman: Arkham City are the titles that made the biggest splash with the gaming press at the latest E3 event in June. This list of ‘best of’ E3 hopefuls was …

Yoda The Creature: The Jedi Master who makes his debut in The Empire Strikes Back . A tricky, powerful being, he speaks in an unusual manner that has been the subject of much scholarly study. Henson Magic: Frank Oz manipulated and voiced the Yoda puppet on Henson’s recommendation, and earned …

Keep It Light Steve Schapiro : “This image was shot after the most violent scene in the film – the last sequence with all the shooting and stabbing and wrestling. “When Scorsese shouted ‘Cut!’, everyone just collapsed about laughing – it relieved a lot of the tension. “During filming, you …

All gamers are carnivores and savages. Oh sure, some of us rarely eat meat in real life, but when we’re in a game, the thing we most want to see is our enemies turned into meat, the more rare and bloody the better. There’s something almost primal about seeing your …

There are very few instances where it’s perfectly acceptable to fall asleep in the middle of playing a videogame.24 hour marathonscome to mind, as doesforced prison torture (opens in new tab). Though you may not see it, the commonality between those two examples is that the player has a greater …

Hey, videogames are a visual medium. Therefore, graphics are part of the package. How large a part they play is one of those things gamers will argue about for hours, withlots ofphrases like”graphics whore”, “frames per second”, “gameplay first”, and “realism vs art” thrown about. We say don’t overcomplicate things …