Some madman over at PC Gamer has been trying out something called the “Minecraft Experiment,” in which player death results in the immediate deletion of the world he or she has been working so hard to spruce up. The game’s creator, Markus Persson rece…

Good news: Microsoft has plans to offer Kinect development tools to XNA developers. Confirmation comes via Xbox director of incubation Alex Kipman, who said during an interview on Talk of the Nation that, while there’s no current Kinect functionality …

Too much good PSN content! Head … *pop*. Okay, maybe it’s not that dramatic, but there are a lot of games in this week’s update. There’s new titles like Pac-Man Championship Edition DX or Spelunker HD and new-to-PSN games like Dragon’s Lair and Mag…

Early this year, Flickr cofounder Stewart Butterfield unveiled a new company called Tiny Speck, and teased its first project, a side-scrolling MMO called Glitch. Originally announced for late 2010, it’s now due in early 2011. The Glitch site has relaun…

Great Scott, Marty, it’s the very first screenshot of Telltale’s much-anticipated Back to the Future episodic game. The company has shared a few shots of the title in action for the first time and, as you can see above, the look is more stylistic than…

Tepig. Snivy. Oshawott. Sure, these three gibberish words don’t mean anything to your brain right now, but learn them well — they’re the English names of the new starters in Pokémon Black and White, as revealed by the game’s recently launched,…

Homebrew developers continue to do much more interesting things with the Kinect sensor than have been done in any of the retail games so far. Two recent projects manage to use the sensor for proof-of-concept programs that are simultaneously sophisticat…

With an impeccable, topsy-turvy career of stunt racing behind him, Joe Danger’s certainly no chicken — we’ve heard that his middle name is “Danger,” despite the obvious redundancy. Still, if you insist that Joe “Danger” Danger make a fool out of hims…

Looking to expand your DJ Hero 2 and/or Guitar Hero: Warriors of Rock catalogues at a significant discount? Activision’s offering of free DLC for each game seeks to solve your problem, adding a DJ Tiesto-mixed three-track pack to DJ Hero 2 and a My Ch…

While Battlefield: Bad Company 2 soldiers wait for VIP Map Pack 7 and — more importantly — a Vietnam release date, it appears that a much-welcomed update to the game’s multiplayer is coming to consoles. You’ll recall that a version of the patch was …