To characterize Treyarch’s Call of Duty: Black Ops as a merely competent chapter in the money-minting franchise’s history would unfairly devalue the game’s generally entertaining single-player story and superlative multiplayer suite; but calling the game brilliant or innovative would gloss over the unmistakeable feeling that we’ve seen this and been there too many times before. [...]

In a generation where we’ve effectively stopped counting polygons in games, and have instead sought our eye candy in multiple dimensions over measurements of feet (or meters), it’s a wonder how a mere number of inches (or centimeters) can produce a feeling of awe in more diminutive devices. The handheld may be king in the [...]

The majority of games currently available on Facebook are simple. In fact, some of them lack any depth of any kind and aren’t fun to play for more than few minutes — if that. Now a group of developers who worked on games like EverQuest, Planetside, and Free Realms is planning to deliver what may [...]