When one considers the negative (and often unnecessary attention) that video games receive for displays of violence and overt sexuality, it should come as a surprise when one hears of any one opening calling for games to maintain and even increase shocking displays, provided that they are handled in a mature manner.

The person who is sounding this alarm of positivity is Winda Benedetti of MSNBC. Benedetti, who pens game columns as MSNBC’s “Citizen Gamer” humorously, begins her piece by giving the impression that she is an individual who saw a male organ for the first time. While gamers would undoubtedly dismiss this childish display, her mock reaction in the article’s intro shares some similarities to the realistic responses expressed by…

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With varying types of games out there, innovation has proven difficult to come by. After all, there can only be so many games about space marines, football players, cartoon characters and World War II anecdotes before players demand a new means of creative expression.

Activision has come to the rescue in this regard, announcing a title that will allow players to experience life through the eyes of a Secret Service agent.

The game, titled Secret Service, will task players with protecting the President from assassination attempts by…

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There is no doubt that Resistance: Fall of Man has remained one of the Playstation 3′s stand-out titles. This popularity can be attributed to its large-scale environment and the ingenuity of the game’s developers at Insomniac Games. With Resistance‘s sequel due this holiday season (2008), and a side story for the PSP titled Resistance: Retribution expected later in the year, players will have ample opportunities to defeat the Chimera at their own game.

Players who choose to purchase both games will have the opportunity to “infect” their copies of Resistance: Retribution through the connection of their PSP systems to their Playstation 3 consoles…

James Cameron, the Oscar winning director of Titanic, Aliens and the Terminator is looking to break new ground in videogame-film relations with the announcement that he and Ubisoft have joined forces.

Ubisoft will be developing a video game based on Cameron’s next feature film, Avatar (no relation to the Nickelodeon cartoon Avatar)…

D3’s immensely popular and addicting puzzle/RPG hybrid Puzzle Quest will be available later this summer on XBLA (Xbox Live Arcade), with expanded features that take advantage of the live arcade atmosphere.

Besides the full online play there will be a complete with a matchmaking service, ranked multiplayer games and voice chat. Additionally, the game has been tweaked and new features have been added to the single player mode, including…