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Today’s billion dollar video game industry makes the original arcade scene look like the Wild West. Way back in the late ’70s and early ’80s, inspiration seemed endless and the industry was filled with developers ready to imitate the next big hit. And it was that unique mix of innovation …

If you want to get into competitive StarCraft II, just roll through single-player so you can learn up real quick, right? Ahahahahahaha. No. Blizzard is looking to undo at least a few of those “ha’s” by adding a training mode to StarCraft II: Heart of the Swarm. Polygon reports the …

Three Dog, that howling voice in the quiet desolation of Fallout 3’s Capital Wasteland, may not have barked his last. Voice actor Erik Todd Dellums tweeted a brief tease yesterday that the Galaxy News Radio DJ could appear in the post-apocalypse again. “To all my #Fallout3 and #ThreeDog fans: There …

We’ve been off work for a while, but we think we still know how to do this. Let’s see… we talked about the Top 7… what else? Oh, and we discussed news, and even did a preview! Yeah. We got this. We totally got this. The Deets Post date: January …

Zynga has put down 11 of its games as part of cost-cutting measures for the struggling social games giant. Several of the titles were created and curated by Zynga Japan, which will also shut down at the end of January, according to GamesIndustry International. TechCrunch reports the 11 games will …

“To kill for yourself is murder. To kill for your government is heroic. To kill for entertainment is harmless.” Wait, what? I’m, like, an hour into Spec Ops: The Line when this message pops up on a loading screen. “What a weird thing to say,” I think to myself. But …

The Phantom Pain from Moby Dick Studio was announced at Spike’s Video Game Awards tonight, and it’s definitely… Something. Its cryptic debut trailer featured a man awakening in a hospital, his left forearm amputated and replaced with a prosthesis, confused and frightened by what’s happening around him. As the trailer …

We’re not going to give you any hints about which game led the NPD Group’s November retail sales figures in the U.S., we’re just all going to say it together, ok? We’re totally psychic, don’t worry. Ok…. NOW! Call of Duty: Black Ops 2! Yes! We did it! Now that …

Star Wars: Battlefront 3 recently stumbled out of the morgue and into the spotlight when Free Radical Design co-founder Steve Ellis claimed the game was “99 percent finished” before its cancellation. The next in the Battlefield-esque series created by now-defunct Pandemic Studios was unceremoniously canned by LucasArts for financial reasons, …

The hoops have it as NBA 2K13 led the NPD Group’s U.S. retail sales figures for October 2012. The analyst firm revealed results for retail sales of games, hardware, and accessories over the last month–and here’s your monthly reminder right up top that, though the results are an industry standard, …