Author: Nelson Williams

Social games are becoming more popular every day. They rest at the soft spot between casual gaming and online tea parties, where they syphon up clicks from people who normally wouldn’t play video games. This makes social...

Blizzard doesn’t like to release games. They like to tune and balance and polish games, instead, which is exactly what they’re doing with Diablo 3. Up on the list are character stats, itemization, the skill system,...

I think the phrase is, “Go big or go home.” I also think the other phrase is, “Art is whatever you can get away with.” The world’s largest video game controller was recently unveiled as part of the...

Capcom’s long-running horror series, Resident Evil, is about to get another notch on the shotgun stock. Resident Evil 6 has been revealed by the game maker, and while details are scarce, it does seem to continue the...

Patches are a strange thing. Releasing a bunch of them early in a game’s life shows a lack of good game design before it hit shelves, but not releasing patches shows a total failure to manage the game. Anyhow, SWtOR has...