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This year’s PAX East will be kicking it off on March 11th with a keynote from Jane McGonigal. In addition to having a resume as a game designer she is also a game researcher and holds a PhD in Performance Studies from UC Berkley. Her keynote will address how games and gamers will make the [.....

If you are a subscriber to Game Informer you will be one of the first to get a glimpse at the next sequel from DICE, Battlefield 3.  While some may be getting tired of the rehashing of first-person shooters,  fans of the series have felt it’s been a long time coming. So what’s been keep...

Sony finished up its conference in Japan this morning and, in case you have been hiding under a rock, they showed off their next portable console, the PSP2 or codenamed Next Generation Portable (NGP). Even though everyone assumed Sony would name this system in the same numeric way they have done wi...

Rumor has it that this Thursday Sony will be making the official announcement or unveiling of the PSP2 at a press conference in Tokyo.  On the heals of this news we have also heard additional rumors that the device will carry a 3G connection.  With all these supposed features is Sony throwing too m...

It is now official!  Japan has already known about their launch date and pricing but now the U.S. knows it will be getting the 3D camera equipped, glasses-free Nintendo 3DS on March 27th for $249.99. I got the opportunity to play the 3DS at the Nintendo World 2011 event and this is great news to [....

Portal 2 will, slated for release later this April, will be getting some interesting features for those that purchase the game on the PS3.  Valve has designed the game to be fully integrated with their Steam so that your game saves can be uploaded to the cloud and you can hop from PC to PS3 [...]

As seen in a store in Akihabara, these Kirbys were chilling out along with a slew of other Nintendo stuffed plushies.  Usually I would see these guys pilled up in a bin at some Toys”R”Us but here they were lined up and organized by each different version.  It all looked like a spooky ar...

Originally released May 2009, to the US by Atlus, for the PlayStation Portable (PSP), Crimson Gem Saga was ported to the iPad/iPhone more than a year later, hitting iTunes in August 2010.  Crimson Gem Saga marks an important shift in video game evolution being one of the first games ported from a c...

Today started the three day conference that Nintendo is holding in Chiba (same location as Tokyo Game Show) and I got the opportunity to test out many of the games being showcased on the new handheld. Like any gaming event, people queued up and waited patiently for the gates to open at 10:00AM.  Th...

The game centers in Japan have floors and floors of arcade games to please all types of gamers.  The other day I decided to focus my time on the one dedicated to medal games. If you are not familiar with medal games, they usually require you to use tokens or “medals” as your controller ...