Following over two weeks of anticipation and prognostication, the annual game-industry earnings figures from The NPD Group are in. As widely predicted, 2007 was a record year for the industry, with ...

2007 was inarguably home to some of the best video games ever released. This wasn’t just one of the best years in gaming; it was a definitive year for games, a total cultural reset. Games that would ...

For me, the best choice for game systems is easy. Nearly all of the games that I really want to play run on the Xbox 360. , are available for both 360 and PS3, so the Xbox is the common denominator.

Much has been made of Portal's innovative gameplay and pitch-black sense of humor, but the game's core strength, one that all its best points spring from, is that it's subversive. At every turn, it ...

Repeat a myth often enough, and people come to accept it as fact. And there’s a myth that’s been repeated enough times by Mac gamers this year that bears that old saying out—that 2006 was a lean year ...

2007 was the year of the video game. All three consoles were on store shelves by the first of the year, and each console had a run of incredible titles. People bought systems and software at almost ...

Update: The NPD Group has chimed in, attributing the low percentage of PC software sales to the growing shift towards digital distribution, which the firm does not track. Original Story: Of the $18.85 ...

Each week Dennis McCauley contributes The Political Game, a column on the collision of politics and video games: It may be Game Over for 2007, but the political ripples of the past twelve months will ...

Chris Littlechild (He/Him) is an Editor and Writer Trainer from the United Kingdom. He has been gaming since receiving an original Game Boy and copies of Super Mario Land and Super Mario Land 2: Six ...

Any music fan knows that indie music is where you find the weird stuff. Sure, Top 40 is fine if you feel like listening to expensively superproduced, high-gloss pop confections. (And I mean no ...