Internet douchebags will be douchebags.

It’s about that time of year when gamers’ heads fill with the delights of holiday wish-lists but their pocketbooks empty of any usable coinage to make those wishes come true.

Let me go on the record as saying that I don’t understand the retro game craze.
Theoretically, I am the retro game pusher’s target market: an aging gamer who remembers the “Golden Age” of video gaming in the ‘70s and ‘80s. The problem is, I do remember the “Golden Age” of video gaming in the ‘70s and [...]

“When it’s done” apparently wasn’t fast enough. Yesterday, Joe Siegler of 3D Realms confirmed through a one-line forum post that this is not a marketing stunt: the development company behind Max Payne, Wolfenstien, and the Duke Nukem franchise has closed its doors for good.
At the time of this writing, the official 3D Realms forum is [...]

With the release of House of the Dead: Overkill, Wii gamers will experience blood, gore, a zombie mutant with jiggling boobs and 189 uses of the word “fuck,” setting a new Guinness world record for most “fucks” in a video game. 

Some of us rack up hundreds of hours going on side-quests, playing mini-games, or gathering resources in the quest for more power and glory in our games. Others just skip all that nonsense and go straight to playing an omniscient creator. I understand the appeal of the various “simulated life” games. At the center is [...]