A tournament simulation I did with NCAA Basketball 10 returns a believable national championship - Kentucky 88, Kansas 82 - but the rest reads like 3/4ths of the brackets in your average pool: Lots of chalk, and several WTF upsets. More » More:  NCAA Video Game Picks Kentucky, but Trouble...

Haiku is so overdone, and would be verbose compared to these spot-on assessments of nearly 100 video games, done in just five words by Games Radar. Some rate a spoiler alert. More » More:  Brilliant Five-Word Reviews of 94 Video Games [Brevity]

Doom co-creator John Carmack earned a Lifetime Achievement Award at the 2010 Game Developer’s Choice Awards, but he’s not done. Oddly, he wasn’t sent an early iPad despite being a big iPhone games booster . We discussed that, plus, naturally, Pokemon. More » Go here to...

Tuesday is named for Tiw, the Norse god of war. Fittingly it’s also the day Sony’s God of War III releases. More » Read the original:  Week in Games: A Wrathful God [New Releases]

Batman: Arkham Asylum art director David Hego did better than I could, talking in a language other than his native one, about Batman winning Best Game Design at the Game Developer’s Choice Awards. Plus, he tolerated my Pokemon tips request. More » See the original post: Proud Batman:...

After Valve’s Gabe Newell was honored as a Pioneer at the GDC Awards, I asked him to predict gaming’s future and to offer more Portal 2 teases , a Half-Life 2: Episode 3 update and Pokemon tips. My success rate: 50%. More » Read the original here:  Valve’s Gabe Newell...

Something tells me that most every Medal of Honor trailer between now and its release is going to feature the kicking-the-booby-trapped-torture-victim-out-the-window sequence. It’s compelling, sure, but not after seeing it the second time. More » Original post:  Medal of Honor Trailer:...