When I left Heathrow on Friday 13th en route to Rio for the XV Pan American Games I was not sure quite what to expect as this was my first trip to South America and my first experience of the Pan American Games. …

But, the Game Critics Awards are just getting started. Each year a panel of judges selected from a variety of major publications and sites vote on their favorite games from the show. The nominees are collected and awards are handed out, …

Selatra, the global distributor of mobile Java games, announced today the availability of the three exclusive new games from its Flashlite catalogue. Meteors - a shoot-em-up space game, Reversi (also known as Othello) the instantly …

(Steve Kent wrote the best book on video games, The Ultimate History of Video Games. Currently as a novelist, hes fictionalizing the rich characters in the Microsoft's Gears of War video game.) When you throw your pointed Puritan …

The authors of a new chapter book on military video games have sent out a call for scholarly papers. Joystick Soldiers: The military/war video game reader is accepting 500 word abstracts by September 17. Here is part of the call, …

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