Yes, yes: Not one but two Wired.com contributors have already weighed in on the first-person parkour game Mirror’s Edge. There’s still more to be said.

One of the biggest sticking points with Mirror’s Edge is that it is faced with a dilemma not unfamiliar to designers of action games. How do you make the player feel […]

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Ubisoft says the planned DLC could add enough to be considered a prequel or sequel.

Prince of Persia isn’t even out yet, but Ubisoft is already hyping their plans for downloadable content — content that apparently will be pretty big in scope. Speaking in a video interview with Gamersyde (via Eurogamer), producer Ben Mattes said Prince […]

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Discussion during Wrath of the Lich King launch also reveals that new MMO is still early in development.

World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King

The Wrath of the Lich King launch is getting all the buzz, but that hasn’t stopped Blizzard from slipping in a few more mentions of its new, as-yet unannounced massively multiplayer […]

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Tear apart of the DSi reveals that better sound and speedier processor responsible for drop in battery life.

The Nintendo DSi has a bigger screen, a better processor and an SD card slot, but one thing the DS Lite (and the humble DS Phat) still have on their younger brother is roughly one to six hours […]

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As expected, your shared songs won’t last long online if they’re based on copyrighted music.

One of the most exciting features in Guitar Hero World Tour is the custom song creation tool, allowing gamers to write their own note charts and share them online. And unsurprisingly, by "write their own note carts," that has turned out […]

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Toy drive for children’s hospitals around the world officially begins.

"It’s time to be amazing again people." So says Penny Arcade’s Mike "Gabe" Krahulik, in a post announcing the official launch of the 2008 Child’s Play Charity.

As in years past, gamers (and anyone with a generous heart) can head over to the Child’s Play website, […]

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It’s no secret that I’m intensely excited about Mirror’s Edge, so it’s with great pleasure that I present the final trailer for the game.

This clip, released to celebrate the title finally being completed and shipped off for duplication, demonstrates ME’s hyper-kinetic Parkour-style action gameplay (once you get past the gleeful quotes from game critics who […]

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Despite an ongoing copyright lawsuit over the cover art of Baja 1000: Score International, the game has been allowed to reach retail shelves.

As we reported last month, the cover for the title bears an uncanny similarity to THQ’s Baja: Edge of Control — a similarity which lead to THQ suing publisher Activision Blizzard on copyright […]

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A look at how this election may have reshaped Barack Obama’s views on games.

In a monumental win over John McCain tonight, Barack Obama was just elected the 44th President of the United States of America. And after some the of the excitement of this historic election (regardless of one’s political bias, it’s an incredible step […]

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Electronic Arts wants to assure the gaming world that their mysterious, Steven Spielberg-helmed title is still in development, despite the company’s recently announced lay offs.

The "ultra-real game," codenamed "LMNO," was the first casualty of EA’s workforce cutbacks, stated the rumor spawned by gaming blog Videogaming247. Their source, an unnamed EA employee, was never revealed, nor […]

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