This past Thursday Riot announced that League of Legends players were approved by the US government for visas based on their status as professional athletes on par with other sports organizations such as the NFL, MLB, and the NBA.  This at first may seem like a good get for Riot and League of Legends...

Are you ready for a miracle? One of the most anticipated events to come out of Valve each year is the Steam Summer Sale, and this one is looking to be a doozy! From yesterday, July 11th to July 22nd you can get your hands on tons of giant discounts up to 75 or possibly more off! Each major sale always seems...

Last week some members of WoW’s public test servers noticed a brand new item, called the Enduring Elixir of Wisdom. What makes this item different is the fact that it seems to be geared towards a more “pay to win” type of mindset, and seemed to hint that Blizzard was planning on adding an...

Last week Don Mattrick, head of Microsoft’s entertainment division, made a startling career move. He decided to give up his somewhat cushy job at Microsoft and take on the challenge of turning around Zynga’s fortunes, and became the CEO for Zynga. At the time I speculated that there may have...

Microtransactions have become a staple of MMO’s over the last few years. That much is certain when you look at games like SWTOR, which started out as a traditional subscription-based game and because of  dropping subscription numbers just a few months into its life it switched to microtransactions....

Final Fantasy VII was re-released for the PC last year, but I’m guessing that there were a few fans who didn’t realize it. After all, the very popular RPG wasn’t released on Steam at that time, and for many folks, if it doesn’t exist on Steam, it doesn’t exist period. And who...

If there’s one thing EA is known for it’s putting in tons of different DLC for a game. SimCity is no stranger to this phenomenon either, as in its short life its received a few DLC packs already, including one for an amusement park. This next pack that EA and Maxis is releasing is gonna take you...

Australia, we thought things were finally going to be different with you. After years of refusing to carry a Mature-like rating in your classification system for games, you finally decided to get like the rest of the world and introduced such a rating. But then you just had to go and refuse classification...