Article by Contributing Writer Mario Mergola. The video game medium is unlike any other due to one distinct difference – interactivity. Gamers not only have direct input on the action unfolding onscreen, but a good game will leave them feeling immersed in the development of the plot and its direction. This level of interactivity was the reason horror games have been so successful throughout... more.

Every year, a certain week saunters by. This week is unlike any other seven day span; there are no Mondays, no Hump Days - even Friday is a distant figment of some forgotten higher will. Within this week, zombies, bats, ghosts, and vampires become commonplace, no longer frightening creatures of the night. In every storefront and in the lawns of the classless lie beacons of a singular day among... more.

Recently we had the opportunity to sit down with Ella Romanos, Managing Director of Remode Studios. Their upcoming title Mole Control, a sort of superior Minesweeper re-imagining, has garnered a good deal of attention and justifies a proper examination by any self-righteous casual gamer or PC aficionado alike. Thanks go to our Community Manager Chris Meichtry for help with the questions. ... more.

Side-scrolling platformers have a history of excellence dating back to the dawn of gaming -PC gaming in particular. From the original Duke Nukem to Mega Man and Super Metroid, this genre has transformed into the backbone of underrated and indie games of late. Trine is the first premium-quality side scroller in recent memory, and at first it hits every mark soundly. Unfortunately, it drowns in its ... more.

Time travel and its manipulation are hardly the most innovative topics for video games -or any sort of interactive media, and coupled with a first-time developer and their equally-neoteric proprietary engine, it might easily spell critical and commercial armageddon. 8monkey Labs is situated in Cedar Falls, Iowa, home to the University of Northern Iowa and not much else; luckily, small towns an... more.

Rarely have so many high-profile, A-list, incredibly-hyped titles been crammed into such a small release window. For three months in the Fall of 2007, PC gamers were desperately scrambling to scrape together enough cash to throw at games ranging from Bill Roper's 3D Diablo successor in Hellgate: London to the Mother of All Sequels in Team Fortress 2 (conveniently nestled within the Best Bargai... more.

In any given week I'll test drive at least five unique video games. Most leave my hard disk as swiftly as they arrived; others, however, survive the weekly digital immolation for quite some time. Regardless, playing a specific game to completion is somewhat of a personal rarity, and provided that I only review games I have finished, I don't write about my direct experiences as much as I'd like... more.

Interesting and unique intellectual properties are the stuff of millions; seemingly, everything has been done before to varying degrees of success. Recently, trends have dictated (and allowed, more or less) for developers of video games to extrapolate specific elements from a motley collection of different titles and insert them at will into one game. Occasionally this Frankenstein approach fi... more.

Initially unveiled at 2007's QuakeCon, first-person shooter juggernaut id Software (Doom, Quake) debuted this detailed trailer yesterday following two long years of limited information. Rage is fueled by the latest in graphical powerhouses: "id Tech 5." However, the engine has reportedly come with a massive hit in compression, and is rumored to consume between two and four dual-layer DVDs on c... more.

It's no secret that episodic adventure games are a runaway success and have contributed in large part to the reinvention of the previously-stagnant genre. While hardly pioneered by Telltale Games -a department of developers founded in part by LucasArts expatriates- the structure provides a cheap platform to deliver several hours of quality entertainment at an inexpensive rate; it was fired int... more.