A large amount of today’s console gamers are people who have grown up playing games, often starting their gaming career from anywhere between the Atari to the current generation. But as games mature with us the notion of cutting gaming out of our lives and dismiss it as a childish hobby seems less necessary. It’s recreation, or it’s storytelling, or it’s aggression therapy, and these are all things adults can use.

I love DLC that extend’s a game’s story, so when The Arrival ...

With Hollywood greenlighting nearly everything related to our childhoods (Battleship, coming to a theater near you in 2012!), you know this is just bound to happen. This fanmade trailer for an upcoming Angry Birds film echoes way too closely to the creative bankruptcy that currently plagues Hollywood studios and, quite frankly, would not surprise us in the least. "Angry Birds" as directed by Michael Bay? Give it a few years, and this could very well be our reality. 

Be sure to check out the trailer below.

Before the Back To The Future episodic game series began, Telltale Games had a promotion that allowed me to sign up to receive Episode 1: It's About Time for free once Episode 2 was released. Yes, I'd get the game late, but at the time I'd had plenty of other games I was working through. I didn't even get to the game by the time it was ready for me to download - sometime in February, I believe - but I finally made the time for it and I'm glad.

Episode 1 takes place after the Back to the Future 3 movie. Doc Brown's been unheard from for months and so the bank is selling his estate with Marty McFly's dad leading the sale of Doc's belongings. During the sale Marty finds Doc's notebook that contains all his notes on time travel and confiscates it to ensure it doesn't fall into the wrong hands. On his way out of Doc's, after...

Riddle me this, riddle me that, who’s afraid of the big black bat? Er, I mean...we certainly aren’t. New details emerged on the Arkham Asylum sequel Batman: Arkham City today, with one major highlight being the increased presence of the Riddler in the October game. Although relegated as mostly a side character in the original game, doling out such clues as tiny green trophies and question mark graffitti, new concept art and gameplay footage focuses prominently on the Riddler, prompting us to assume that the Edward Nigma character will have a larger role in the highly anticipated sequel. Be sure to check out the new trailer for Arkham City listed below. The game is currently scheduled for release on October 18th.

Team Ninja has teased Ninja Gaiden III with this teaser trailer, showing nothing at all and alluding to an unmasking. But that could of course just be a trailer gimmick. Still, the three-quel (if anything like its predecessors) promises to be dark, fun and less excruciatingly hard than the past two games.

Team Ninja has promised players that they will experience what it feels like to cut through a body, incorporating a feeling of physical resistance with each slice and/or dice. The game will explore Ryu's character as a person, including his backstory, though the story will take place after the events of Ninja Gaiden II.

With the release of the Nintendo 3DS only a little over a month away, more details are starting to emerge in regards to the launch games for the new handheld. Though we're sure the system will sell like gangbusters when the system is released, color us a little skeptical after browsing over the list of launch games. Unless you're dying for a new Pilotwings game (we sorta are...), even the first party launch titles are looking relatively thin for the Nintendo 3DS. Below are the list of 16 titles that will be released on launch day, though not all of them will be winners:

First-party:

Pilotwings Resort

Steel Diver

Nintendogs + cats

Third Party:

Super Street Fighter IV 3D Edition (Capcom)

The Sims 3 (EA)

Madden NFL Football (EA Sports)

Pro Evolution Soccer 2011 3D (Konami)

Lego Star Wars III: The Clone Wars (LucasArts)

Ridge Racer 3D (Namco Bandai)

Super Monkey Ball 3D (Sega)

Bust-...

Dead Rising. Left 4 Dead. Dead Nation. Undead Nightmare. Burn Zombie Burn. Dead Space. Plants vs. Zombies.

If there's one thing the video game industry doesn't need these days, it's another game about zombies. Sure, zombies seem to be a hot commodity, what with the Walking Dead succeeding on television and Pride and Prejudice and Zombies find its way into the cinemas in the next year or so, but by this point we're starting to feel an oversaturation of the market.

And yet, somehow we're still excited for the upcoming release Dead Island. Check out the artfully directed new trailer for the game below, which makes the game seem a little like Hard Rain mixed in with flesh-eating monsters.

From March 16^th 2012 to September 30 2012, the Smithsonian American Art Museum will be hosting The Art of Video Games, an exhibition that will explore the 40 year evolution of video games as an artistic medium, in what I can only assume is a massive F#$% you to film critic Roger Ebert. Kidding, kidding! It’s easy to take a swing at Mr. Ebert based on his comments regarding the artistic merit of the medium, but you’ve still got to respect someone who’s been in the criticism industry as long as he has. This is a man who’s witnessed the rise and fall of enough child actors to choke a whale with and to be fair, he’s...