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Some developers love to gold plate their software. There are various shades of .. er, gold, I guess, but it's usually considered wasteful to fritter away time gold plating old code in the face of new features that need to be implemented, or old bugs that could be squashed.

Dead Space is shaping up to be quite the horror experience. Let's take a look at a trailer that the ESRB didn't think America was ready for. Spoiler warning: space is bloody. Read More...

Kwari, a new FPS, is making the dream of gamers a reality by allowing them to use their Mad Skillz to earn cash. In the future, the games are free, but the bullets are expensive.Read More...

After some recent negative comments by Activision CEO Bobby Kotick, EA's Jeff Brown makes a few observations of his own. Corporate mud-slinging inside.Read More...

Dead Space is shaping up to be one of the best horror, science-fiction games in recent memory. Ars goes to EA to see how a dedicated development team inside EA pushed for the game's existence, and created something special in the home of sports games.Read More...

Jeff Gerstmann was fired from GameSpot, reportedly for a bad review given to an advertiser's game. GameSpot staffers then began to quit the site, many in protest. Today we add one more name to the ranks, and look at the timeline of events. Read More...

After spending around six hours with Dead Space for the feature review, we have an early verdict. Yes, it's scary.Read More...

The animated film Dead Space: Downfall has arrived on store shelves, but is it worth the cost of a purchase?Read More...

Richard Garriott will soon travel to space with samples of human DNA, creating a kind of "saved game" in the event of the apocalypse. Now buy his game, dammit. Read More...