Spring arrives and roads deteriorate.  It’s the nature of the season that defrosting plus winter runoff is going to do unpleasant things to the nice, flat, even, broad expanse of blacktop that provides a comfortable path from point A to point B.  A couple of frost heaves, a little flooding, and a few potholes are, [...]

Trion Worlds, known for their massively multiplayer online games like Defiance and Rift, took a pretty big hit to their staff this week. First reported by IGN, sources claimed that not only had a majority of the staff been sacked, but that some people weren’t taking the sacking too well.  Some employees were said to [...]

Let’s not bundle this one with a bunch of lies and get straight to the point: the game makers at NeuronVexx did not plagiarize anything when it came the making of Dinora, but much of its inspirations, so to speak, were based primarily on a similar game that had more breakout success — Re-Logic’s Terraria. [...]

Nintendo’s recently-launched Virtual Console for the Wii U has a new sale going on for a limited time. From now until May 23, you can get Super Mario Bros. 2 for 50% off if you buy Super Mario World. SMW costs $8, while SMB 2 is $5 normally, but would be $2.50 here – giving you [...]

In case you missed it, Nintendo just announced that they have entered into a “worldwide partnership” with Sega to bring a slew of new titles to Wii U and 3DS, most notably three exclusive Sonic games. As such, Iwata stated that the first Sonic project, entitled Sonic: Lost World, will be coming to Wii U [...]

Welcome to This Week in Gaming, where we take a look back at some of the most newsworthy events in gaming history from last year to even decades ago that happened this very week. Take a gander at some of the highlights and see which spark nostalgia and which may still be news to you. [...]

The eighth Be Mine Bundle has been released. Groupees has put together some good bundles in the past, and now, for a minimum of $1, you can get Patrician IV, Fairly Bloom Freesia, Paranautical Activity, and highly-acclaimed Slam Bolt Scrappers. You’ll also get DLC for Patrician IV, a MEEMS album, and the OST for Fairy [...]

The demo to Among the Sleep arrived on its Kickstarter page today, available to anyone who happens to wander on by with a PC, Mac, or Linux machine.  There’s three days to go on the campaign, which just cleared 100% funding a few hours ago as of this writing, and if you’ve been on the [...]

With great anticipation, the OUYA console hit my doorstep today — right after I checked its status on the USPS site ironically enough. As expected, you get a console and controller, but I was a bit surprised to see Duracell batteries in there. The HDMI cable is a nice inclusion, but should’ve really been longer [...]

When Square and Enix merged back April 1, 2003, it raised a lot of questions of how some of the companies best franchises will fare, and while those alarming questions where met with the release of titles like Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles and Kingdom Hearts, the marriage should have been looked at as a warning [...]