The GamerGate movement drew its last breath this morning (10/17/2014) as the progressive feminists got their message out to the mainstream liberal media, including the Washington Post, the New York...

Ireland's postal service pays tribute to four iconic video games with its latest stamp collection.

Available on PC, Playstation 4, Playstation 3, Xbox One, Xbox 360 Rated M for Mature Distributed by Bethesda Softworks The Evil Within is simultaneously the best Silent Hill and Resident Evil game since the fourth installments of each series. Yeah… Continue Reading →

The important things on any and every video game controller: Two thumbsticks, a D-pad, four face buttons, some triggers. And that’s it.

Starting Thursday, Oct. 16, Steam will host a free weekend that Valve says is the service's biggest yet; 10 PC games in all will be free during the weekend-long promotion, which would total about $240 if purchased at their regular price.

Nintendo: it protects what it believes it owns with great vigor. The company has rarely missed an opportunity to make sure that other people are not allowed to alter or mess with the stuff Nintendo insists is Nintendo's. In an apparent effort to maximize the irony combo-meter, Nintendo also has been known to make sure that customers don't mess with or alter the properties those customers actually own, such as online support for games that Nintendo decided to alter long after purchase...

Out of all the sequels in the Super Mario series, the longest-spanning, most consistently popular and highly acclaimed game franchise in history, Super Mario Bros. 2 is the strangest and most important.Twenty-six years ago, the videogame starring Mario and three of his friends landed on American shores with a resounding roar. That first game was a phenomenon, the likes of which happen once or twice a generation. Super Mario Bros. for the NES would soon become the best-selling game of all time.

Cosplayer: Thunderbolt // Photo: Emma Meow

The first episode of Dreamfall Chapters, the Kickstarter-funded episodic sequel to Funcom's The Longest Journey and Dreamfall: The Longest Journey, will be released on Oct. 21, developer Red Thread...

"There was a time when computer games didn't have graphics. Or at least they couldn't have graphics and sound at the same time. They certainly couldn't have graphics, sound and enough content to keep even a human being amused for more than a few minutes. So they had text.

Sort of wish the old games of my childhood would be remastered into this caliber of graphics. This artist has some amazing talent! Linked his Deviantart profile in sources.

Sound design is often the unsung hero of video games. But when developers get it right, primal instincts are triggered, helping immerse players in the action.

Shovel Knight Knight Baby! A parody of Vanilla Ice - Ice Ice Baby

EarthBound fans of the world, I now present an amazing video tribute to one of gaming's bravest groups of kids. This video was published on the ProjectPKFlash YouTube channel in celebration of Mother 2/EarthBound's 20th anniversary. The animation is delightful...

The Flint Institute of Arts has served an important role in the life of the Flint community since its founding in 1928 and today, continues to play a major role in the growth and revitalization of the city of Flint. Through its exhibitions, interpretive programs, film screenings, concerts, lectures, family events and educational outreach programs, the FIA serves more than 120,000 adults and children annually from all over southeast Michigan. The selection and presentation of exhibitions and related programming is at the heart of the FIA’s mission which is to advance the understanding and appreciation of art for all through collections, exhibitions, and educational programs. The FIA has been accredited by the American Association of Museums since 1972 and in 2002 the FIA’s collection was designated a National Treasure by the Presidents Committee on the Arts. In 2007, the FIA received the Governor’s Award for Arts and Cultural Organization. The FIA’s 150,000 sq. ft. facility is a unique space with more than 25,000 sq. ft. of gallery space, a large light-filled and welcoming entrance and lobby area with visitor amenities including a café and gift shop, an Art School, a library, a theater ideal for presentations, films, and lectures, a video gallery, and a large 'great hall,' seating more than 200 for events of all kinds.  The FIA maintains a collection of nearly 7,500 objects, sustains a membership of 3,200, registers 1,700 students from pre-school age to senior citizens in Museum Art School studio classes, and presents school programs to 25,000 K-12 students annually.

Brecht Vandenbroucke Minecraft is the hot new videogame among teachers and parents. It's considered genuinely educational: Like an infinite set of programmable Lego blocks, it's a way to instill spatial reasoning, math, and logic—the skills beloved by science and technology educators. But from what I've seen, it also teaches something else: good old-fashioned reading and…

Eidos President for Life Ian Livingstone has applied to launch a free school in England that will deliver lessons to students using video games. Livingstone told the BBC that he wanted to start a school that uses games-based learning and get away from what he called the  "relentless testing" method used and most schools in the country.

Huntsville Symphony Orchestra starts its 60th season next Friday with a symphony show that's part rock concert with a playful twist.

Kissing can be fun, but fundamentally it’s a pretty gross human act involving the transference of saliva and tongues touching other tongues and ...

Chinese media are reporting on a new video game that makes no mystery about who the enemy is.

An MSDOS edutainment game by Sierra Online that was actually fun!

Welcome back to Rebel Sound Off! Last time we looked at boss music from Castlevania III: Dracula’s Curse and Gargoyle’s Quest II. This is what you guys had to say:

Cosplayer: Talia Mira Cosplay // Photo: Beethy Photography

With Red Bull Music Academy (RBMA) putting its focus on Japan this year, a couple of documentaries have sprung up online that delve into the music scene here. ...

"Who cares what the resolution is if the game looks gorgeous?"

How the granddaddy of fantasy games contributed to RPGs, adventure games, MMOs, first person shooters, and pretty much everything.

Noriega's lawyers argue that the First Amendment defense doesn't apply because Activision copied the ex-dictator's likeness without consent and did not transform his video game character into something different from his actual persona.

Sometimes, it's the anticipation that's the best bit. In the old days (and, in some cases, still now) the title screens for games were a mini work of art in themselves, and that includes the rather limited scope of the Game Boy canvas. So, this amazing/ridiculous video created by YouTuber NickspolsionFX deserves to be appreciated as a work on a level with Leonardo, or Van Gogh perhaps - as it features the Start screens of every (give or take a couple) original Game Boy game ever.

It comes with a very different kind of arsenal.