Steam has become the dominating force in downloadable PC gaming the past few years but Valve isn’t afraid to admit when they see faults. For the users with lacking internet speeds, downloads through the system can be an arduous task, and Valve has promised a solution in the way of greater Steam Bandwidth and the shrinking of needed file download sizes

In From My Collection, I dust off a game whose prime has long since passed and now adorns my shelf after gleeful pride, shameful defeat or just sheer boredom led me to the next adventure. This series will give me a chance to either give these hidden gems the exposure they deserve or warn against games of yesteryear fraught with poor design choices

Mario, Zelda, and squad based “realistic” shooters like Call of Duty have been under heavy fire for falling into the Madden Effect: releasing the same game every year with slightly improved graphics and a gimmick or two. That seemed to be industry standard; but one of the patriarchs of video game history, John Carmack, has stepped up to defend these cookie cutter shooters

Originally James Sanders, Vega is the newest addition to the Normandy crew come March with the release of Mass Effect 3, and Bioware says this growing boy might not fit in well with the rest. His screen shot was released to celebrate reaching 10,000 followers on Twitter by Bioware’s Casey Hudson and has seen mixed fan approval

In the Mass Effect series, the player is given a series of choices, each having both a Paragon (good) and Renegade (bad) way of handling which in turn raise either gauge respectively. The more paragon or renegade points the player has, the more verbal options they have in conversation. The issue with Mass Effect is that

Later this year Microsoft will be launching a new music service via Xbox live known as Xbox Music. The service will incorporate Kinect functionality, allowing players to search for music through voice commands from a library of over 11 million songs

Sony Online Entertainment has just announced a new installment to their popular PlanetSide ip, released way back in the golden age of MMO’s, those frightening and dark ages that were 2003. Never heard of PlanetSide? Well not to worry, neither have I but apparently it was a quite popular and ground breaking