I know people were hoping L.A. Noire would be released sooner rather than later. I recall optimistic people hoping for April. Well, it’s not going to be an April game. It’s going to be a May 17, 2011 release. If you’re in Europe, you’ll have to wait and extra three days until May 20, 2011.

Sound familiar…

Everyone anticipating being able to suit up as a Big Daddy in BioShock 2: it looks like your second descent into Rapture is going to happen a bit later than expected. The game, which was slated for a release in fall 2009, has just slipped to “fiscal year 2010″, presumably in the first quarter of the calendar year.

Grand Theft Auto IV was recently removed from store shelves in Thailand by the order of New Era Interactive, one of Asia’s largest game distributors. The reason is that Polwat Chino, a 19-year-old boy, killed a taxi driver while trying to recreate a scene from the game.

Ah. Yet another case of “life imitating art.” Remember the problem though. Before games, movies and any violent media, there was still violence. So, in comes the obvious step of scapegoating. The easiest thing the blame is something that really can’t defend itself. It’s the basic psychology of blame. Since the Columbine school shooting, the popular thing to blame for violence has been videogames.

We are in an age where one of crime’s biggest motives and accusations is…

It looks like Take-Two wasn’t kidding when it expected sales of Grand Theft Auto IV to make the Halo 3 launch look puny. According to Kotaku, the publisher has just confirmed a New York Times report that the title has generated $500 million in sales in its first week. This means that the PS3/Xbox 360 more »

Caveat Lector: Spoilers for Bioshock are all over the place.

There’s no doubt that the underwater shooter had some of the most immersive atmosphere, cinematic set pieces, compelling characters, and sophisticated storytelling in any game last year (and perhaps ever).

But could it be made into a film?

Or perhaps the bigger question, SHOULD it be made into a film…