Some of you may have heard about the Entertainment Consumers Association, and some of you may even be members. But what is the ECA and what are they really about? I spoke with ECA President and Founder Hal Halpin at PAX to get the scoop. Founded in 2006, the ECA is a non-profit, non-partisan membership [...]

Developer 5th Cell’s highly anticipated title, Scribblenauts, launches tomorrow. I spoke with lead designer and 5th Cell co-founder Jeremiah Slaczka during last week’s Penny Arcade Expo about their quirky little DS game, which was a surprise hit at E3 2009 and crowd magnet at PAX. He also showed me a little demo of what can [...]

Attendees at this year’s Penny Arcade Expo got the chance to see a faithful replica of Mark Meltzer’s office, which is featured in the teaser site for BioShock 2 that launched a few months ago. Called “There’s Something Under the Sea,” the interactive website offers tantalizing clues as to what we can expect in the [...]

During this weekend’s Penny Arcade Expo, I spoke with Turbine Communications Director Adam Mersky about  major changes to two of their most popular MMORPGs, Dungeons and Dragons Online and Lord of the Rings Online. As it was announced on June 9th, DDO will experience an especially big transformation, adding a free-to-play (F2P) option with microtransactions. [...]

Montreal developer Ubisoft electrified a crowd of 5,000 on Friday night with its back-to-back presentations of Splinter Cell: Conviction and Assassin’s Creed II. The Sam Fisher game was first, with Creative Director Max Beland giving the presentation. He stressed that this Splinter Cell will change the way people play stealth-based games. According to Beland, typical [...]

Earlier in September I named Twisted Pixel as my favorite indie game developer of the month. It brings a unique style to downloadable titles that we don’t tend to get very often. I certainly didn’t expect to see Twisted Pixel’s next project so soon, but the developer sent out a press release this week that [...]

The finalists from XNA’s Dream-Build-Play contest are featuring their games at PAX this weekend. Dream-Build-Play is a competition for independent game developers to create games for the Xbox 360 using the XNA Game Studio software. This year there were 350 entries from more than 100 countries. First place wins $40,000 while second place gets $20,000. [...]

Participants at this year’s PAX have the opportunity to check out a 10-minute demo of BioShock 2 and I tell ya, it doesn’t disappoint. The game takes place several years after the first BioShock. The demo starts off with you waking up and finding out that you’re a Big Daddy. Yes, you get to play [...]

The 11th annual Penny Arcade Expo (PAX) starts today in lovely downtown Seattle. Over the next three days, throngs of gamers will fill the halls of the Washington State Convention and Trade Center, sampling upcoming games, participating in tournaments, and attending special events. Yours truly will bring a few previews, pics, interviews, and news from [...]

We all have a collection somewhere in our homes. Old video games that we no longer play, crappy games that we received as presents and are still shrink wrapped, or games that GameStop can’t buy such as computer games. You want to get rid of these games but have been unsuccessful. Well, you’ll be able [...]