If you bought one of the launch copies of Mass Effect: Deception, you now own a collector’s item. Both BioWare and Del Ray know that what happened with this spin-off book is not okay. As a result, BioWare’s Chris Priestly posted on the BioWare Social Network forums to let fans know the companies are working more »

Who likes free stuff? That’s a rhetorical question, as everybody does! If you own an Xbox 360, then you have a unique opportunity. 7sixty is really excited about its first fighting game, Phantom Breaker 5pb and has decided to give it and an arcade style tournament joystick from eightarc. It was a special edition, Fusion more »

It’s hard to slip anything by dedicated Mass Effect fans on the internet. Once they got a chance to look through the Mass Effect: Deception novel, a wave of disappointment soon followed. There are apparently some factual errors in the novel that are too large to ignore. As a result, Mass Effect fans have spoken out against more »

All is not well for THQ. The company is sinking and flailing, due to debts and losses, and it’s responding by cutting back on jobs, pay and the kinds of games it’ll make. Now, it’s CEO Brian Farrell is saying that a big part of its problems is because people didn’t like the uDraw GameTablet. more »

There is a niche market for augmented reality shooting games on mobile devices. These games use a smartphone’s camera and accompanying software to bring actual gameplay into the real world. In an attempt to make this experience more enjoyable, a company called Metal Compass is releasing a peripheral for smartphones called the XAPPR gun.

Your quest isn’t over yet, Skylanders fantatics. Activision has set before you a new task. It is one that will require you to visit many stores and spend lots of money so that the brave warriors Cynder, Double Trouble and Slam Bam may once again join the fight against Kaos in the Skylands. In short, more »

If there’s one thing fans know, it’s every single canonical detail about their favorite games. Should someone come along and introduce a new entry in the series that isn’t right, the fans will make their voices heard. Case in point is Mass Effect: Deception. William C. Dietz was tapped to write this entry instead of more »

Let’s start out your day today with some sales! Amazon has four available January 31, 2012, to help you say goodbye to January and prepare to ring in February. Two are Wii accessory lightning deals, which mean you’ll have to make sure you’re on at certain times throughout the day. The other two are general more »

The subject of piracy has gotten a huge amount of attention lately thanks to SOPA, PIPA and the shutdown of MegaUpload. Rovio Chief Executive Mikael Hed took the time at Midem this week to speak on piracy as it relates to his company’s Angry Birds videogames and the supplemental products they help produce. Essentially, Rovio doesn’t more »

Best Buy’s got a great ad filled with quite a few good deals and shoppers have until February 4, 2012 to take advantage of them. Whether you need a new HDTV with 3D capabilities for your PS3, want to get something extra when you buy one of the three major console releases coming out this more »