Skyrim Wins Video Game Critics Award
The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, the sprawling fantasy role-playing adventure from Bethesda Softworks, won the Big Apple Award for Best Game from the New York Videogame Critics Circle, which announced its first annual prizes on Thursday evening.

The top 50 Android tablet apps
Whether you've got a Samsung Galaxy Tab, Amazon's Kindle Fire or another Android tablet, you'll be looking for some great apps. We've picked some of the best Apple sold 15.4m iPads in the final quarter of 2011, but there is more to the market than one manufacturer and OS. Strategy Analytics estimates that 39% of the 26.8m tablets that shipped that quarter were running Google's Android operating ...

Road to the IGF: Tom Francis' Gunpoint
It's always interesting to watch games journalists forging a path into the world of game development. You have to wonder whether their knowledge of what makes games entertaining and enjoyable can give them an edge over your average developer. Tom Francis is one such developer -- a British journalist who currently writes for PC Gamer magazine, and is developing one of the most talked-about ...

Pat says he and Vanna were D-R-?-N-K; K-Ches, Jason Aldean top ACM noms; Snow White flick delayed; and more: P.M ...
I'll solve the puzzle, Pat: "Which game show host and letter-turner did 'Wheel of Fortune' after six-margarita lunches?"

14th Annual Independent Games Festival Announces Main Competition Finalists
SAN FRANCISCO , Jan. 10, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- The Independent Games Festival (IGF) juries have announced the Main Competition finalists for the 14th annual presentation of its awards, celebrating the brightest ...