Are games today easier than they used to be? Has the skill curve declined as technology has advanced? Here are ten old-school and previous generation games that are the source of millions of broken controllers.

The PlayStation 3, despite having one of the rockiest starts in gaming history, is constantly being improved, expanded and retooled. Still, things do need to change

This week in gaming brought us the inauguration of the 44th president Barack Obama as seen from Fallout 3, the release of an unexpected first-person gem for the DS in Moon, and more industry drama as Microsoft and Sony trade words.

The original masterpiece that is Starcraft is still played 10 years later to this day among tens of thousands of players, and with that, comes skepticism that Starcraft 2 won't be able to match the greatness. Innovation, price, and multiple-building selection top the list of worries, but here are reasons why you should keep the faith in Blizzard.

Study shows gamers more likely to drink, smoke weed, ignore friends

A first look into new content from Rockstar's Grand Theft Auto 4, featuring new music, weapons (auto-shotgun, grenade launcher, pipe bombs), characters, television programming, Internet, and minigames, as well as new multiplayer modes and "superpeds". Motorcycles have also been tweaked so that they’re much easier to ride and harder to fall off of.

There are two things that happen when you convert video game weapons from pixels to steel. The first is you get to see how cool they look, and the second? Well that’s usually how impractical they are to use.

If there's one thing that should be made painfully clear to every living person it's that the economy just plain sucks these days. Here's a top 10 list of game characters that can hurt the economy. From physical destruction to problematic insurance costs, these are the characters that should steer clear of the US of A for awhile.

Marvel vs. Capcom, Earthworm Jim, Space Harrier and so on... what happened to all of these awesome franchises? We're going back again to better days and counting off 14 more video game series that have little to no hope of getting another crack at a new title. What treasured franchises got left by the wayside that you're still carrying a torch for?