Have you ever thought to yourself while playing Pac-Man, “Ya know, I could make a better maze than this,”? Well, now you can show the world just how awesome your maze-designing skills are by creating one — or more — on the World’s Biggest Pac-Man site. Prepared to be blown away as you peruse through literally hundreds of mazes created by joe shmoes like yourself.

No, it’s not April Fools’ Day yet. That is a screenshot you see of the long-awaited MMO World of StarCraft, which is meant to take place in the StarCraft universe. Oh, but there’s still a catch, see. This game is not made by Blizzard. Rather, it’s designed by a group of loyal fans.

The Xbox 360 dashboard is not the only thing that’s getting a fresh coat of paint. Xbox.com is in for a major change tomorrow (October 20, 2010). Starting at 5:00am eastern time, Xbox.com and the Xbox forums will not be accessible for a little while. Xbox Live however will not be affected by this upgrade.

When the Lord of the Rings Online fanblog A Casual Stroll to Mordor decided to hold an in-game event for charity organization Child’s Play, it only made sense to blogger and LOTRO player Kiarane to bake a cake!

You like getting free things right? Of course you do, and we have good news for you. The developers of the upcoming 2D stab-a-thon Shank are giving the Shank soundtrack away for free as a thank you to fans. Naturally we had to do something special to be honored like this. It turns out the origins of this gratitude started on Facebook.

The holidays are coming up, and its a good time to get creative. I mean, there’s a good chance that you may be making home-made gifts for your family and friends this year, if you’re short on cash. So to help you get into a creative frame of mind, this week Important Importables is going to talk about oekaki. Yeah, I know, I’m stretching for some kind of connection between this festive time of year and the whole oekaki message board thing. Humor me.

Besides, oekaki could come in handy for preparing for the fast approaching holiday season. You could practice your drawing skills on an Oekaki board, then create a design you could use for your own Christmas cards! I’d say Hannukah cards too, but it’s kind of late for that, since Hannukah ends December 19, 2009 this year and today’s the 18th.

So, let’s learn about oekaki, and some oekaki boards where you can start doodling…

Owners of Culpa Innata, a PC adventure game from Strategy First, will be pleased to hear that Strategy First has released a patch which fixes a bug that makes the game crash. While the bug is referred to as “rare” on the updated website, the company does admit that the bug will occur regularly on more »

With all the recent controversy surrounding video game titles including Grand Theft Auto and Manhunt, parents have begun to worry about the kinds of games their kids play. Most parents rarely spend time playing with their kids in order to find out what those games are really about and the ESRB ratings only provide brief more »

Weta Workshop, a film production company which also specializes in high-end, intricate and highly realistic artifacts and replicas, has been helping to produce a live action Halo 3 short film. The first released and teased at E3 this week, is titled “Arms Race.”

The live action project was put together by Bungie Studios, director Neill Blomkamp, WETA Workshop and Origami Digital, LLC.

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Spoof Flash games may be a dime a dozen but this one came out pretty dern fast. The Game Show Network (GSN) has released a The Prison Life: Paris, a Flash based game where you stamp license plates. It’s stupid-simple, but still kinda fun in a dumb sorta way. Check it out… Is it me more »