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Because there can never be too much Portal in your life. Take a look at this incredible fan-made video about Portal heroine Chell on the outside of Apeture Science. It is adorable. Plus there is cake. -That is all.

Today’s example in why Giantbomb is great is the most crazy Quick Look they have ever done. The game, Cargo: The Quest for Gravity, is a crazy game created by Russian developer Ice-Pick Lodge. I don’t really understand exactly what the point is, but it is wonderful and amazing to watch. You don’t need to [...]

Today we are taking a closer look at another game developer and what makes them special. Last time we looked at Bioware. This time we focus on Valve Corporation. Besides making games, they are also the force behind Steam. They are worth loving for that alone. But this focuses on the games. Valve is special [...]

So there is an internet controversy going on about the recently released Portal 2. There are lots of complaints, but the primary revolves around a Day 1 store selling DLC cosmetic items for your co-op characters. Lots of this complaint comes from not the content itself (though that gets some rage), but that it happens on Day 1. This [...]

Halo is one of the strongest brands in video games. The original game Halo: Combat Evolved was a runaway success on the original Xbox, leading to an equally successful Xbox sequel Halo 2. Jumping to the 360,  Halo 3 sold more than US$170 million worth of copies in the first twenty-four hours of release, breaking [...]

Marshall Honorof wrote an article on the Escapist about the concept of a hybrid gamer: one who plays “hardcore” games in a “casual” manner.  According to him, the key element of “casual” vs. “hardcore” play is an investment of the player’s time. A casual game does not demand much of the player’s time to experience its [...]