A closer look at a crazy year.
Not quite what it used to be.
Happy holidays from GameSpy!
This is the way the end of the world began: not with a whimper, but a bang. After six years of expansions and level increases, the two oldest continents in the World of Warcraft faded into pale, forgotten shadows of their former glory -- rarely visited, save for the obligatory auction house check-in. The multitude of quests suffered from over-familiarity and repetition, visuals that awed in 2004 seemed outdated, and Blizzard had lost one of its greatest lore assets with the death of the Lich King. It was time, in short, for a change of cataclysmic proportions. Read More »
It's amazing how the developers of the Final Fantasy titles can make such breathtaking, in-depth role-playing games, yet utterly fail at making halfway-decent minigames. Then again, it kind of makes sense: If I asked Pablo Picasso to paint a street sign, I'd probably end up with a pretty useless street sign. So why put awful minigames inside a beautifully constructed game? Pablo Picasso never hid horribly rendered street signs inside his classic works of art. After decades of fighting elementals for crystals on the moon, I have determined that Final Fantasy's awful minigames always fall into one of four categories. Read More »
And this week's winner of GameSpy's Bad Idea Jeans Award goes to the 23-year-old man who now finds himself in a hospital bed after attempting to play a real-life version of Frogger on a South Carolina highway. Seriously. Read More »
Like its predecessor, Pac-Man Championship Edition DX brands achievements right onto the surface. If you earn an achievement, you find its icon branded into a glowing grid in the post-game recap. This is a big improvement over the Xbox dashboard pop-up, which blackens and blocks the screen with a big gray box. It lets you see the Pac-Man CE DX achievements as an inseparable part of the game. Read More »
Want more Uncharted 3? You got it. Courtesy of Sony, today we've got the game's director and creative director describing the new features and design decisions that will make Drake's Deception the most engrossing Uncharted adventure yet. Read More »
Deals. You love 'em, we love 'em, and right now on Xbox Live there are a handful that should get 360 gamers adding Microsoft Points to their accounts in a hurry. It's the Xbox Live Countdown to 2011 promo, and today's highlight deal makes three DLC adventures for Mass Effect 2 just $2.50 each. Read More »
Almost two weeks have passed since my mage hit level 85 in the wake of Cataclysm's release, and he still doesn't have a single epic-quality item on him. I'm cool with this. It's certainly not because of a lack of trying; on the contrary, I've come dangerously close to missing several deadlines on account of my newfound semi-addiction to World of Warcraft, and I've wasted several hours in normal and heroic dungeons that any other responsible writer would have spent writing. I happily blame Cataclysm's new challenging five-man dungeons for this. While Cataclysm's leveling experience is largely easier than any previous expansion, its endgame dungeons make you work for the best gear, and provide a challenge that's been missing for a couple of years now. Read More »
You know it and Nintendo knows it: the gaming world can't get enough Pokemon. Hence, the fifth generation of Pokemon games, Pokemon Black Version and Pokemon White Version, first released in Japan in September, are finally making their way Stateside on March 6. Read More »
More than 230,000 gamers took part in this year's Humble Bundle 2 program, downloading up to 11 great indie games while contributing more than $1.8 million to two worthwhile charities and the independent studios behind the titles. Read More »
No, we still don't know for sure how much it will set you back or when exactly you'll be able to get your eager gaming hands on it. What we do know is you can now reserve your very own Nintendo 3DS from GameStop -- even if the retailer doesn't know it yet. Read More »
It's Christmas! And Hanukkah! And all the other things that people celebrate this time of year! Come on in, as we (and several of your favorite video game characters) show you how gamers around the world celebrate the holidays. Read More »
Rock Band studio Harmonix is no longer a Viacom company. The Cambridge, Massachusetts developer has been sold to... well itself. With the help of investment firm Columbus Nova, Harmonix is now owned by Harmonix-SBE Holdings LLC. Read More »
If you bought a Madden NFL game within the past six years, you paid too much. That's what's alleged in a class-action lawsuit against Electronic Arts, which claims an exclusive agreement with the National Football League allowed EA to inflate the price of its Madden titles by up to 70%. Read More »
Atari is taking D&D; fans back to the Forgotten Realms. The publisher announced today Dungeons & Dragons Daggerdale is now in development and will launch this spring on Xbox Live, PlayStation Network and as a Windows PC download. Read More »
In our final podcast of 2010, we (along with surprise near-guest Bree Olsen) bawwwwwww about our lack of a Podcast Award, we bring up some games at some point, and we talk about... well, all manner of random stuff, as you're probably used to by now. Thanks for putting up with us for the year -- have a great Christmas, Hanukkah, Kwanzaa, or whatever it is you celebrate. We'll be back in 2011! Read More »
Is he really the villain that everyone believes he is? In this candid interview, we endeavor to hear his side of the story. This is Jack Thompson, in his own words.
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Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood (Limited Codex Edition) Guide
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Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood Guide
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Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood (Collector's Edition) Guide
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Fallout: New Vegas Guide
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Fable III Guide
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{UNPLANNED VERSION?} Fable III (Limited Collector's Edition) Guide
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Fable III (Limited Collector's Edition) Guide
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Fable III Guide
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Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood Guide
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Call of Duty: Black Ops (Hardened Edition) Guide
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Call of Duty: Black Ops Cheats
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Gran Turismo 5 Cheats
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Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas Cheats
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New Super Mario Bros. Wii Cheats
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Assassin's Creed: Brotherhood Cheats
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Grand Theft Auto IV Cheats
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Fallout: New Vegas Cheats
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Call of Duty: Black Ops Cheats
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Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Cheats
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Donkey Kong Country Returns Cheats
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