Americans like free games, go figure

A new report by NPD Group, a leading market research firm, states that free-to-play games are becoming wildly popular with Americans, and turning into a profit, to boot.

Take time, make time

I've written previously about how hectic life can be, and how important it is to find gaming time despite that, but I think it bears repeating.

Assemble!

So, The Avengers is coming out in less than a month. This thing has been building since 2008 when Iron Man first came to theaters, incorporates four major comic book characters with their own origin movies, two of which already have sequels. Needless to say, I'm fairly excited.

"Family values" groups continue anti-gay campaigns against EA and BioWare

BioWare, and its owner EA Games, have been the targets of more than one email campaign by organizations that are outraged that same-sex romantic relationship are available in some of their games. In the past few years, games like the Dragon Age series, Star Wars: The Old Republic, and Mass Effect 3 have had these possibilities.

Late in the game review: The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword

Game title: The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword

Console: Wii 

Developer: Nintendo 

Release date: November 20, 2011

ALL .com, .net and .org websites are subject to U.S. laws

The Internet is, undeniably, a global community. Anybody from anywhere all across the world can start up a website and start producing content. Well, it turns out that, even if the website is owned an operated outside of the United States, the U.S. government probably still has control over it.

UK retailers Game and Game Station refuse to stock EA titles, cancel pre-orders

You know how Gamestop is everywhere in the U.S.? It's one of the few game-only retailers out there these days. Well, in the U.K. their equivalent is a chain of stores named Game. Seriously, I've seen three of these things withing 5 miles of each other before.

Now Game and it's subsidiary, Game Station, are reportedly refusing to stock all EA game releases for at least the month of March and cancelling customers' pre-orders. That means U.K. gamers will have to look elsewhere for Tiger Woods 13, Sims 3: Showtime, and Mass Effect 3.