Todd Howard, game director at Bethesda reckons gamers love freedom. “They feel more like the character they’re playing.” he explains. “They’re doing what they want to do and not what you, the designer, wants them to do. The more open, the more reactive you can make it, the better the player experience.” ...

Game industry publishers and developers say the darndest things - no, really. Whether they’re using ten-dollar words to hock their products, provoking message boards or feigning ignorance through million-dollar egos, we look to these game makers with a vented interest. After all, they’re supposed to be looking out for the everyday gamer, right? Then why all the hilariously misguided potshots at competitors? What’s with ...

Stories that showcase fan-made clones of popular videogame characters made with Spore’s Creature Creator have been doing quite well on digg over the last few weeks. But it looks like digg itself has become the latest victim of the imitation treatment.

Meet the digg monster. His special attacks have been known to attract tons of traffic and snarky comments to websites that host him. The digg monster loves videos of cute girls ...

Face it: Princess Peach wouldn’t give you the time of day if you spent twenty years rescuing her from ginger lizards. Chun-Li’s just not that into you. Lara Croft? She doesn’t even know you’re alive. Why don’t you quit chasing those quixotic chicks of A-list gamedom and broaden your horizons to something a little more... in your league. ...

In choosing games for this list, we kept an eye on games most likely to succeed at the market. We also tried to keep in mind potential critical reception based on developer track record, previous franchise performance, and how the titles have been presented in the media thus far. Naturally we also picked the titles we are most excited to play at the show, but in short, these are the games to keep an eye on, because these are the games that ...

Spore’s population of creatures continues to steadily rise since the game’s Creature Creator was released just a few weeks ago. We’ve already taken a look at how freaky Pokemon invaded Spore. But today it’s all about Mario.

From badass Bowsers to busted Bomb-ombs, check out the most awesome and awful clones of Mario’s most memorable foes. If you’d like to get your hands on these bad guys for ...

To celebrate Independence Day (the holiday, not the movie), we’ve scoured our encyclopedic minds for the most patriotic games to be developed. But that wasn’t funny enough. So, we dug deeper to find the most rabidly patriotic games every developed. Ya know - the ones with so much love for Old Glory that it starts to get a little ridiculous. Behold - our results!

America's ArmyUS Army | 2002Any game can add the word ...

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FROM: Sly Cooper series/Mortal Kombat series

 Sly Cooper is a master thief, an expert at stealth, guile and - when necessary - smacking things on the head with a length of hardwood and brass. However, Sub-Zero is a ninja, and is therefore an expert at all those things and then some. Also he shoots ice.

Sly is found two weeks later by sheriff's deputies, frozen solid in the back ...

All week we've been posting articles about Mega Man, one of gaming's most beloved and long-lived characters. Capcom's official count puts him in at least 120 games over the past 20 years, a number that surely must beat out all other popular characters and mascots (save Mario).We've got a massive retrospective, an exclusive hands-on with the latest game in the series, Mega Man 9, a bad ass contest packed with 10 super-cool prizes... and that's not even all of it.
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