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If we're to entertain Mayan pop-scientist notions and bad John Cusack films, the world will end in 2012. But don't believe everything you read...
From Destructoid
Hope you got what you wanted for Christmas! Comments of the Year is a feature where we scour the Comments of the Week archive looking for comments. The ones that make you think the fullest, the ...
From IGN
Rockstar has never been shy about looking to the cinema for a little inspiration. Plenty of the finest moments in Rockstar titles are remarkable thanks to a little silver screen shove in the right dir...
From IGN
The IGN team have enjoyed a wonderful 2011. Here are some of our favorite memories. Wishing you, and all our readers, partners and friends, a very Happy New Year and an outstanding 2012. Big love...
From Destructoid
Love 'em or hate 'em, the big videogame franchises are the life essence of publishers. If you love them, every 1-3 years you can (often) find yourself playing a bigger and better version of a game yo...
From IGN
The guys behind the amazing gaming bar Loading in Falmouth have created the official IGN cocktail (no, it's not the Floradora) to help you see in the New Year with us in style...
From IGN
Puss in Boots Walkthroughby truegamewalkthroughs Click on the link to open the video up in a new browser TAB or Window. If you have pop-up blocker active, you may need to hold CTRL (PC) or Option (Ma...
From Kotaku
You remember that Bearded Dragon, right? Or the orangutans? Or the African bull frog crushing virtual ants? More »
From PlayStation Universe
Year 2011 was a great year for PlayStation. Along with a hot E3 2011 conference, this year saw the release of hit titles like Dead Space 2, LittleBigPlanet 2, and Uncharted 3: Drake’s Deception...
From Joystiq
Filed under: Podcasts This is it; the final Joystiq Show of the year, and the last round of Game of the Year personal picks from the final group of Joystiq editors. Mike, Steven, Jess, and Jordan join...
From Kotaku
Just as its sister site ModDB picks the top PC gaming mods of the year, IndieDB rounds out the year with a countdown of the top independently developed games of the year. Think of it as a shopping li...
From Destructoid
Takeshi Kitano, Japan's most extreme eliminator, hates technology. Naturally, he was the best person to ask to help make a videogame. The result was Takeshi no Chousenjou (Takeshi's Challenge), a Fam...
From IGN
It's old news now that PlayStation Vita isn't selling very well in its native Japan. As we already reported, Vita is off to a rocky start, only selling 72,479 in its first full week on the market (fro...
From Giant Bomb
Find out how we came to these conclusions, as well as our picks for Giant Bomb's Top 10 Games of 2011 by listening to our final, jumbo-sized deliberation podcast!Giant Bomb’s Worst Game of the Y...
From spong
As always, the biggest news of June comes from E3. This year the crown would probably have to go to Nintendo, which took the big step of announcing its next console, the Wii U. Before that though... T...
From spong
2011 is nearly gone, never - unless you possess some sort of post-Apocalyptic, Dystopian time machine - to reappear. Well, we do have such a time machine! It's called the SPOnG video games news archiv...
From Kotaku
The hardest thing at the end of the year is to parse yourself from the hype you're experiencing and think back to the games you played during the summer, the spring, and yes, 2011's early months. Mor...
From IGN
The best part of a journey lies in the company you keep. Over the many years of the Final Fantasy franchise dozens of heroes and villains have entered our hearts and remain in our memories. Some of th...
From Kotaku
Tired of being picked on and looked down upon for being a Nintendo-exclusive console owner, commenter ClaudioIphigenia speaks up on Kotaku about the rather reasonable reasoning behind his brand loyal...
From IGN
Online multiplayer is arguably the most significant advancement that games have made in modern times. But online play is not a complete substitution for the good old-fashioned local multiplayer experi...
From PSX Extreme
Mass Effect 3 is easily one of the biggest launches of next year for role-playing fans. ...heck, it's one of the biggest launches for just about everybody. Therefore, the more details we can find,...
From IGN
Welcome to another edition of IGN's annual Console Showdown. What's the deal? Each year we pit the games of each console in a battle royale to determine which system had the best line-up over the last...
From Joystiq
The very first time we saw Activision's Skylanders: Spyro's Adventure figures at a pre-E3 event earlier this year, it seemed only a matter of time before some enterprising enthusiast cracked open bot...
From Kotaku
Teeny Cartridge | Look how tiny the Vita's Memory Stick is. Soooooo tiny that Action Figure Edgar Allan Poe wants to use it to write creepy poetry on. More »
From IGN
I'm guilty of it. Sometimes I, like many of you, flippantly write off a game I see because it's "just copying" something another game did. But almost every game does this. Original titles, if you dig ...
From IGN
With only a few days now left in the year, the book is about to be closed on 2011 one of the biggest anniversary years Nintendo's ever had. This past span of 12 months has lined up with more major mil...
From IGN
Hi Skylanders My tips for today is Leveling Your Skylanders. No i don't have this game it's But i have play Skylanders Spyro's Universe - Beta. at: http://universe.skylanders.com/ And this what I'm fi...
From IGN
Skylanders Spyro's Adventure Walkthrough Authored by LordLysyPoleMore Skylanders Spyro's Adventure Guides » Click on each section to view the part of the walkthrough in a new browser window...
From IGN
Skylanders Spyro's Adventure Walkthrough Authored by LordLysyPoleMore Skylanders Spyro's Adventure Guides » Click on each section to view the part of the walkthrough in a new browser window...
From MMOMFG
Whatever you thought about Shepard being the one true hero is going to be squandered once you start Mass Effect 3. BioWare announced that the game will be a lot more challenging than previous installm...
From IGN
With Twisted Metal's PlayStation 3 debut quickly approaching -- it launches on Valentine's Day, 2012 -- famed series creator David Jaffe had some interesting tidbits to reveal on the PlayStation Blog,...
From IGN
The PlayStation Vita launched in Japan on December 17th to decent numbers, selling 325,000 units in 48 hours. But software sales at retail were underwhelming, with a reported attach rate of only 0.92 ...
From Kotaku
The Nintendo Download ends the year on a high note with the release of Terry Cavanagh 's indie darling VVVVVV on the 3DS eShop, adding a 3D twist to the game's already twisted gravity platforming. Mo...
From Giant Bomb
Erik Wolpaw has written or co-written ten games including Psychonauts, the Left 4 Deads, Team Fortress 2, Alien vs. Child Predator, Portal, and Portal 2. He has been recognized by the North Carolina S...
From IGN
Just because gamers generally consider the peak of fashion to be whatever shirt is on Woot.com today, doesn't mean we can't recognize when our gaming heroes are dressed like garbage. Here are 2011's v...
From Kotaku
Those of us that remember them still miss the arcade emporiums of yore, even is they reeked of cigarette smoke and too much body odor in too small a space. That era's long gone but the American Class...
From Kotaku
Super Mario...Sisters? | Beth Turnsek flips the Mushroom Kingdom on its head. Nice pants, Prince Peach. More »
From Gamasutra
[Gamasutra rounds up the week's biggest reports on South Korea's booming online games market from This Is Game, the leading English-language site about the country's game industry.] In our latest roun...
From Lazygamer
After sinking in many hours into Battlefield 3 I feel I need to post my opinion about the game, not a review just an opinionA video montage of 2011 â Gaming We put a lot of effort into giving yo...
From Kotaku
Adam Larson, the artist behind the three custom covers for NBA 2K12, has also supplied the base art of the Detroit Tigers pitcher Justin Verlander for the cover of MLB 2K12. More »
From IGN
I grew up with consoles. Even though my father worked with computers and the hum of PC towers filled many of the rooms in my childhood home, my greatest gaming memories began with the Nintendo Enterta...
From IGN
Resident Evil 6 doesn't exist - at least not officially. Despite plenty of rumors and wishful thinking by millions of fans worldwide, Capcom has yet to confirm the existence or development of the next...
From Kotaku
We're coming to the conclusion of our Best Game Music of 2011 series—there are only two games left! I've been having a lot of fun writing these, and thanks to Luke and Evan for their entries as...
From IGN
What is a "pure" game? In a time where every other game bills itself as a "cinematic experience" with Hollywood quality production values, it's increasingly rare to find a game that offers solid gamin...
From Giant Bomb
Ed Boon is a video game industry veteran, and though he's best known for his work on the Mortal Kombat series, which he co-created and has retained active creative control of, Ed has also worked on su...
From Giant Bomb
Day three of Giant Bomb's Game of the Year 2011 is under way! Looking for further illumination into our decisions? Look no further than our latest deliberation podcast!Best Competitive MultiplayerBatt...
From Joystiq
The ninth day of Xbox Marketplace holiday deals rings in several Sonic the Hedgehog discounts. The blue mammal's escapades in Sonic 4 and Sonic Adventure are 320 MSP ($4) each, a 60 percent savings, ...
From IGN
#paginationTop, #paginationBot, .ui-page-list ul {display:none;} The PSP has been part of our lives for six years now. In that time, we've had classics, follies and the PSPgo. With the sun setting on...
From Kotaku
Perhaps these Dr. Zoidberg modded Skyrim mudcrabs aren't as freaky as the contorted spider Spider-Men, but their screams of agony when you kill them are pretty spot on. More »
From Kotaku
Artist Darwin Yamamoto, whose video game portraits made November just that little bit more special, has completed another set, this time specifically for the game of the minute, Skyrim. More &ra...
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