You read the headline correctly: at the Neurogaming Conference last week, the fine folks over at Valve discussed their findings from a few tests they had run on Left 4 Dead players. In the research, Valve Experimental Psychologist Mike Ambinder measured how much sweat players had secreted during their play sessions with the zombie-heavy FPS, [...]

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. [...]

Portal 2 may have come out over a year ago, but it’s not too late to finally own your own Personality Core. Avaliable at ThinkGeek for $24.99 each, the cores come in two flavors: Wheatley or Spaaaaaaaaaace. Unfortunately for Stephen Merchant lovers, they don’t have the ability to speak, but due to being just 12″ and [...]

It’s been over a year since Portal 2 released so here’s a quick refresher: it was the game with the Stephen Merchant robot and that jerk-turret.