It's easy to forget that the PS3 is a fully-equipped PC in your living room attached to your house's best monitor. Installing Ubuntu can help you remember, and play SNES games in the process.

Come faster, Spring! Come faster!

Turns out my fears were unfounded and I didn't have to worry about a forced movie tie-in -- Rocksteady's working on Batman: Arkham Asylum, and it's its own beast. After watching the first 15 minutes of the game, I can say that the title looks like it has a shot at being pretty darn good.

Upset about being locked out of my game, I fired off an angry e-mail to Mark Rein, VP of Epic Games, and he actually responded! Kudos to him, though it doesn't mean DRM sucks any less.

When game makers put their ego-driven feet in their flame-baiting mouths.

Players of the PC game Gears of War have a problem that means they are currently unable to even load their game. The reason – a hard-coded shutoff date in the DRM that prevents the game from playing. Yet again, DRM prevents an honestly purchased game from working. Will Crysis and GTA IV break next?

Check out this very heartwarming story on how a kid overcame bullies and made new friends thanks to video games.

Glider, a popular WoW bot, took another hit on Wednesday as a federal judge ruled that the product went beyond copyright infringement to being a circumvention device under the DMCA. The decision raises serious questions about the legal status of interoperability and competition in the software industry.

Free online games had a big surge in 2008, thanks to the ailing economy, market researcher comScore reported today.