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Will Ben or Dan stand victorious in the Super Replay Showdown? Will we be playing Conker's Bad Fur Day or Half-Life next? Find out here.

Developers in the FPS genre have recycled a lot of material. Instead of dropping $60 to see the same content again and again, why not just read this flowchart?

For those of you gearing up to play Rockstar’s upcoming crime thriller Max Payne 3, we’ve prepared this primer on the plots of the first two games and a look into what's coming up in the third.

Kevin Joyce, media director at Liquid Advertising, tells us why Apple's App Store rankings can be deceiving.

How THQ's problems are indicative of the video game industry as a whole.

This SNES game is a wet, sloppy mess, much like Beethoven himself.

BioWare agreeing to revisit Mass Effect 3's ending in response to consumer backlash is unprecedented, and will likely backfire.

I couldn't convince my co-workers to play Mario Party 9 with me, so I decided to turn to the world's foremost party expert.

Why haven’t there been more pirate games? They exist, but their numbers pale in comparison to their hated rivals, the ninjas.

We measure the life cycle of 10 consoles with this look at their final games.

Reiner and Phil explore a doomed ship and solve obtuse puzzles in a very special final episode.

For Assassin’s Creed III, Ubisoft Montreal made the biggest additions to its powerful Anvil engine since the original title launched in 2007. 

We jump back into that most sacred of gaming's gifts: the full-motion video adventure game.

Game Informer's Andrew Reiner, Matt Miller, and Joe Juba spoil and discuss the end of Mass Effect 3 in this video.

There may be less Japanese RPGs this generation, but there are still plenty worth playing.

Take a closer look at Connor, the man who takes center stage in the new installment of Ubisoft’s blockbuster series. 

Curious as to what hi-res content will show off the fancy new iPad Retina
screen? Jeff Cork and I cover some of the top picks in this
hands-on video

We address Phil's departure and determine the final two competitors in this week's Showdown semi-finals.

Long before they worked on sports titles, Visual Concepts put out this bite-sized platformer.

The glory days of the point-and-click adventure genre have passed, but if they ever come back, these are the games I want to see.