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As you all by now surely know, PSN is down. It went and got itself hacked. And there’s no telling when it’s coming back up. Now Sony has admitted that as many as 70 million user accounts have been compromised, with personal information and encrypted credit card numbers in the paws of some script kiddie. …

Bits ‘n’ Bytes Gaming Overlord Martin Watts has penned a great article about the inherent flaws in game ratings and how both readers and outlets tend to interpret them. This is a longstanding issue, one that everyone seems to hate but for which no one seems able to impose a fix. Check out Martin’s view …

My schedule over at the IGDA has been a complete mystery. I used to stick very rigidly to a next-month’s-column-is-due-by-the-30th-of-the-previous-and-earlier-if-possible approach, but in the last year it’s been getting harder to do that. Responsibilities pile up and I’m not good at fulfilling them. So it’s nearly the end of April (and entirely my fault), that the April installment of the series is now online. As promised in the previous one, I skip morbid subjects and go for something a little more easy to stomach.

Review by Jason Dobry Total War: Shogun 2 Developer Creative Assembly Publisher Sega Released March 15, 2011 Available for PC (Windows XP,  Vista, 7) Time Played  - 55 hours and counting Verdict:    5/5 Gold Star “CA learned from its mistakes and made a masterpiece of strategy gaming…Everything is better, and most importantly, not so much because it’s ‘bigger,’ but because …

There are few things that I am willing to buy immediately — Portal 2, the VVVVVV soundtrack, half price Ben & Jerry’s, a cling film dispenser — even Steam sales have trouble seducing me into their vortexes of spending. Well, add something else to that swelling list of insta-buys: XOC’s rendition of the Super Mario …

If you haven’t been keeping up with Charr Week over at the official ArenaNet blog, the grand event erupted yesterday with the release of “The Domain of the Charr” video. It’s loud, it’s industrial and it’s bombastic, conjuring feelings of Isengard. Hit the jump to view the video at the bottom of the page, as well as …

There’s something bothering me about Guild Wars 2 and it’s a stumbling block many game developers trip over, and one which is undoubtedly a very expensive problem to rectify…

From the Land of Ill-Advised comes a report that the Entertainment Software Ratings Board, the official games rating system in North America, has decided to stop doing its job. Because its job is hard. Thus in what I deeply hope is an elaborate and belated April Fool’s trick, the ESRB is switching to a computer-based …

Mortals, behold the Alliance of Awesome! Tap-Repeatedly. Bits ‘n’ Bytes Gaming. Electron Dance. We three have joined forces to be ever more awesome! Three great sites that share community and ideals, and eventually world domination, piped now into your home via the interwebs. What does it mean? We’re going to share content from time to …

ArenaNet, after what felt like a lifetime, have just announced Charr Week will be the third installment to their ongoing series dedicated to the races featured in Guild Wars 2. Beginning Monday, ArenaNet will take a closer look (as they have with Human and Norn Weeks) at the feline-like Charr and highlight how they came to be. …