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All Your History: Command & Conquer Part 4

embedded by Embedded Video After years of dominating the world of Real-Time Strategy, Westwood Studios decided to take their defining franchise into other genres.  In 2002, Command & Conquer entered the shooter space with Renegade, which met a mixed... Continue »

13 Movies to Watch After Dead Space 2

Did you have the chance to beat Dead Space 2 this weekend? No? Oh well. Here’s a movie list I made while on the toilet this afternoon. Continue »

Interview: Brandon Auman, Writer of Dead Space: Aftermath

EA clearly has a lot of faith in the Dead Space franchise. Over the last two-plus years since the release of the first game we’ve seen a plethora of different media covering the story of the strange religion of... Continue »

Once More Unto The Breach?

We recently got a suddenly-talkative—albeit Anonymous—source inside Atomic Games who dropped a fascinating info bomb: despite Atomic's claims (since the whole Six Days in Fallujah saga/cockup) that all the missions in their forthcoming Breach are 'fictional', we've now got... Continue »

All Your History: Command & Conquer Part 3

Since the series’ beginning in 1995, Command & Conquer had come to define the Real-Time Strategy genre. And as they did, its Las Vegas-based developer, Westwood Studios, was catapulted... Continue »

The Call of Duty Subscription Model, coming sooner than you think

Big news today, someone cracked the impenetrable code of CoD, figuring out that Modern Warfare 3 will be hitting this November. It's as if someone looked at the following release dates... Continue »

All Your History: Command & Conquer Part 2

In 1992, Las Vegas developer Westwood Studios took a genre that was in its nascent stages and molded it into the fully-formed Real-Time Strategy. Featuring numerous units that had to be paid... Continue »

All Your History: Command & Conquer Part 1

Join Nick Werner and Rob Talbert for a look at the history of the Command & Conquer series, starting of course with the series' origin in 1995 (actually it starts with 1992's Dune II but pretend to be surprised). Continue »

Machinima Book Club: Dead Space: Martyr

I’ll start this off by saying I’ve never formally reviewed a novel before. And, hell, I don’t think I’ve written a book report since middle school. With that being said, I decided to pick up and read Dead Space:... Continue »

CES 2011: Marvel vs. Capcom 3 Event

embedded by Embedded Video At one point in its history, CES was the premiere event for the gaming industry to showcase its best up and coming products. Now up against the likes E3, PAX, and GDC, there’s not much... Continue »

The $600 Gran Turismo Racing Wheel

Seriously? SERIOUSLY!?!? Unless this thing is gold plated or will actually drive you to the store, $600 is a lot of money to spend on a video game controller designed to work specifically with only one game. This makes... Continue »

All Your History: Best of 2010 Part 3

embedded by Embedded Video Before hitting the fall, 2010 had already seen both triumphant releases and studio scandals. But even with the year’s proof that titles can release successfully outside of the holiday season, the run-up to Christmas is... Continue »

All Your History: Best of 2010 Part 2

embedded by Embedded Video 2010 started off with a bang, with a number of hit games in a part of the year usually ignored by publishers. But while these games and their developers were doing great, the developer behind... Continue »

Inside Gaming Best of 2010 Part Two

embedded by Embedded Video So? Did you like it? Good, because that was only part one. Part two is on its way and as a special bonus,... Continue »

HipHopGamer Gets A Grade

The HipHopGamer has always been a fascinating person to me. His enthusiasm is unmatched while his grammatical skills are…well, lacking. So, I asked myself, what if a series of HipHopGamer articles were submitted to a certified high school teacher... Continue »

Madden Curse: The Movie

I can see the pitch now: “So there’s this video game that lays a curse on whoever is shown on the cover. Enter our hero, an everyman, a gamer. He’s a former champion at the game who is forced... Continue »

All Your History: Best of 2010 Part 1

embedded by Embedded Video Traditionally, the busy season of gaming is the holiday season, when the kids are out of school and parents are looking for gifts. This is often a problem for developers, who have to rush to... Continue »

Inside Gaming Best of 2010 Part One

Rolling out later this month during our much needed two week vacation will be Inside Gaming’s “Best Of” moments from this year. The following are a few select scenes that have stories, significance or interesting history tied to them.... Continue »

A Behind the Scenes Look at The 2010 Inside Gaming Awards

As many of you may know Machinima held its second annual Inside Gaming Awards in Los Angeles, CA on Friday night... Continue »

Exploring Enslaved’s Epilogue – Slavery and Gamers

Ninja Theory's latest game Enslaved: Odyssey to the West was nominated in our Best Narrative category. I want to take this opportunity to explore the game a little deeper. Warning: there be spoilers ahead... Continue »