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Rowan Kaiser discusses why political ads on Microsoft's Xbox Live service might be a good thing for gamers.

Denis Farr writes about the maligned race of Falmer, who have been made into monsters by the game's lore.

Specializations in Halo 4 promise to contribute an added level of depth to the game's multiplayer offerings.

Sleeping Dogs offers a world full of things to discover through exploration. Here's a few tips to get you started.

Open the door, get on the floor, everybody walk the dinosaur.

Marshall Henderson approaches five topics that videogames should maturely explore.

Best FPS Games MAC OS X: The Mac may not seem like much of a gaming rig but rest assured, the machine's more than capable of playing these first person shooters and delivering a solid experience.

Brendan Keogh writes about how alcohol is used throughout Bulletstorm to make the player do things you know you shouldn't do, but do anyway.

And now, back to our regularly scheduled program...

Ken Hannahs writes: Ghost Recon: Advanced Warfighter and its reception shows a troubling acceptance of clandestine missions that, although given the chaser of good old fashioned American exceptionalism, we're dealing essentially with a team of terrorists, fighting for the red, white, and blue.

Katy Goodman writes about how gaming can be a force of good.

V for Vandalism - An Outlook to the fifth Rockstar title, Grand Theft Auto 5.

Pandas are unpopular with a large, and vocal chunk of World of Warcraft players.

War is routinized, war is a spectacle, war is sanitized, war is surveillance.

I spoke at length with Xander Davis on his time at Vigil Games and how he wasn't credited for his work on their latest game, Darksiders 2.

Perpetuating the stereotype that women are bad at games.

Brendan Keogh explores Bulletstorm's clever delivery of interactive humor, as opposed to just funny dialogue and characters.

Rowan Kaiser pens an open letter to Funcom's The Secret World.

We take a look at 15 of the most WTF-inspiring moments in games of this generation.

The notable and the nutso.

Kris Ligman says that to get at the problems of E3, we need to think bigger and look at the overarching culture of enthusiast journalism and fanboy consumption.

Seb Wuepper muses on how the year's slate of games have turned out to be a bit dull compared to the last.