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Lame gimmicks and bad controls can ruin even the coolest characters. Here are ten characters we learned to hate as soon as we picked up the controller.

XCOM’s ant farm is where players will upgrade their tech and equip their field
units before battle. Welcome to the XCOM HQ.

Check out our video, which features me and Tim rampaging through a barrage of bizarre set pieces.

The streamlined new single-player chapter packs a lot of fast-paced,
firearm-focused fun, but it also serves as a reminder to the small
nuisances that held back the original experience.

We attempt to piece together the long-running series' convoluted storyline.

These are five key points from FF XIII that you should keep in mind as you start up FF XIII-2.

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The legendary game designer talks about the past and future of the Civilization series and why strategy games are still contemporary.

Season 2 is here! In this episode, we take a look back at a Nintendo 64 classic.

Producer Sebastian Reichert answers some of our questions about melee combat, the trailer, and standing out from the hordes of other zombie games.

I take an uneducated guess at what the characters of FF XIII-2 are up to, and what other Final Fantasy characters should be in the game.

To celebrate the beginning of our second season of Replay (beginning tomorrow), the crew has put together a list of our ten favorite episodes of all time

Liberation and Piazza were made available to Elite members this week, and we took them for a test run. See the new maps in action here.

Downloadable content is a big part of the future of video games. Here's what's coming, and what has already arrived.

Here's what we really hope the next Madden looks like.

Find out more about Richard Garriott's documentary about his time in space in this unabridged version issue 226's interview.

The lead designer on XCOM: Enemy Unknown talks about his team's approach for the latest strategy game from Firaxis.

It's happening again. Things are going to get ugly.

Reiner, Jeff Cork, Joe, and Jim Reilly return to the Playstation 2's last big title, and one of Kratos' greatest adventures.

Jeff, Dan, and Tim play through the entirety of the ultimate tribute to the NES.