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Much like record companies in the late-’80s, game publishers have realized that they can mine their back catalogs by sprucing up a couple classics and putting them out in a single package. While some of these are obvious cash grabs, even those are often worth it for people who missed …

Game music has been a passion of ours roughly since, oh, 1985, but in the past 10 years, it’s come to mean something more. Don’t get us wrong, we still love the beepatronic music of the 8- and 16-bit periods (and the wave of chiptune artists it inspired), but the …

SFX Blogger Steven Ellis is underwhelmed by the new crop of US telefantasy shows

Earlier today we posted a trailer for DLC Quest, an Xbox Live Indie game that lampoons downloadable content. Since then, many of you have checked out the short, sweet game and loved it. Now, we’ve purchased the “Interview with the Developer” DLC pack, which we’re hoping gives some insight into …

The last time we heard from BioShock Infinite voice actors Troy Baker and Courtnee Draper, they were chatting with series creator Ken Levine about the nuances of playing the game’s leading roles. In part two of Irrational Games’ ‘People Behind Booker and Elizabeth’ video series, we find out how BioShock …

John Cooper smells the pages of new Who fanzine, looking at Abslom Daak and other classic companions from the Doctor Who comic

Valve’s Steam forums were taken offline today after a potential hacker intrusion. The hack manifested itself in the form of a “Notices” banner advertising cheat community Fkn0wned. Reddit users also reported (opens in new tab) spam emails from Fkn0wned or redirects toward the community’s forum board. However, this was also …

Gamers have been on the side of the Assassin’s Creed’s Assassins for so long that they see the Templars as an evil group of controlling murderers. But maybe we’ve just been indoctrinated into the Assassin’s way for so long we can’t see all the good the Templars do. Perhaps if …

Need for Speed The Run is looking to recapture the series’ more cinematic qualities with an overarching campaign story, Hollywood actors, and high production values including using Battlefield 3’s Frostbite 2 engine. EA chose to continue that theme by pulling in director Michael Bay to help an ad for the …

We’ve been pretty entertained by Xbox Live’s Avatar Marketplace lately. We’ve seen Skyrim clothes (opens in new tab), WWE wrestling attire (opens in new tab), full RoboCop costumes (opens in new tab), and the goddamn Batman (opens in new tab). This week another important collection of for-pay digital clothing arrived: …