I was graced with hands which lust to create. I did not choose to live within the both splendorous and torturous tower of artistic wizardry; the tower chose me. I am an instrument of aesthetics, a humble child of Aphrodite.

The world may never fully understand the deep pit of hot coals which glows and sparks with creativity within me, but I must attempt to impart some of my insight to the world. Raise your pencils and feel the passion build within you. Someday you too may be able to draw Mario as well as I. ...

"Damn, that girl is smokin... oh... that’s a guy?" Surely, we’ve all fallen victim to such a scenario. Not you, you say! You’re a hardcore gamer with 20/20 vision and a keen eye for Adam’s apples and moose knuckles? Fine! Many of us aren’t as perceptive, so we’ve decided to highlight those brave folk who upon casual glance, may not have gotten their sex across the first time. ...

In case you weren’t able to jet over to Leipzig and booze with surly eurotrash at the spiritual successor to E3, we’ve collected the show’s hottest videos in one easy place. Because of the show’s positioning in the product release calendar, it’s more about building hype for imminent fall releases and less about shock announcements.  ...

As a professional gamer, you get to travel, compete against the best gamers in the world, and make a living doing it. But is getting paid to play as sweet as it sounds? Meet the Championship Gaming Series' San Francisco team, OPTX. They just walked away from their last tournament with a fat purse of $150,000 after kicking ass in Counter-Strike: Source, Forza Motorsport 2, Dead or Alive 4, and FIFA 08. ...

Earlier this week, we posted an interview with Amanda, an artist whose work is featured on lesbiangamers.com. As a followup to this feature, we’ve been given the exclusive on the next illustration in the series. And we think it’s the hottest one yet. For your consideration, we hope you enjoy this rendering of Samus and Zelda in a loving embrace. Want to see the rest of Amanda’s work?  ...

In terms of awesome, spaceships are right up there with pirates and ninjas and robots. To celebrate gaming's ongoing romance with booster-powered, warp-fast , proton-firing, wormhole-dodging vehicular imaginings, we thought we'd take a look back at almost 50 years of spaceships in games using the attractive medium of in-game and box-art imagery ...

With Halloween around the corner, a handful of horrifying games are being prepped to leave their pants-wetting-induced mark on your couch this fall. Some of the titles listed don’t yet have US release dates (The Last Guy, Ghostbusters, Fatal Frame), but we’re confident they’ll be hitting our shores sooner rather than later. And like any great horror game, the ones listed below require you to rely on your noggin (and a small ...

We’re big fans of dicking around, so when someone suggested that we attempt to reproduce a classic sitcom in Half-Life 2’s Garry’s Mod, we cited the “why the hell not” clause of our operating procedures and immediately began violating ragdolls. While our interpretation of the greatest nihilist sitcom ever may not win us any awards at machinima festivals, it can at least inspire some ironic ...

Videogames often enjoy high-speeding along the temporal tightrope, conjuring its own make-believe predictions of how the next few thousand years or so in Earth history could pan out. So, laid out right here in the present is the future of the world according to videogames. Hold on tight, because we're doing the time warp from 2009 to 7268 ...