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The EA Online Pass was bothersome to most gamers. It required the entry of a one-use code that unlocked the multiplayer mode, or other features, of its games, designed to protect against used games.

Jorge Aguilar, 6, left, his grandmother Nedra Pike, and parents Ryan Pike and Whitney Mekus react to Sniff Sniff U Stink, an interactive exhibit at Grossology.

Video games came of age in the 1980s, a decade that was also the heyday of cheesy Hollywood action movies.

Acclaimed designer Sid Meier once described games as "a series of interesting choices" but when playing story-based games it's rare for your decisions to feel meaningful.

It's almost time for a new Xbox. Eight years have passed since Microsoft unveiled the Xbox 360, double the amount of time between the original Xbox debut in 2001 and its high-definition successor's launch in 2005.

The last time I played The Last of Us at Fan Expo Vancouver for the Canadian Video game awards , I felt like, while unique, the game's environment was a too repetitive and I got lost a few times over the course of the half hour demo I played.

Amazon updated its deals for the week of Sunday, May 19 with a host PS3, Xbox 360 , Wii U, PC, PS Vita and Nintendo 3DS "Graduation Deals" that discounts everything from the World of Warcraft: Mists of Pandaria Collector's Edition by more than half to Call of Duty: Black Ops II and Skylanders Giants .

Retro Vault is our regular weekly feature in which we dive into gaming's past and share five classic nuggets of retro nostalgia.

It's perhaps a little ironic that the creators of some of the most beautiful console games ever made so very rarely promote their games using actual in-game footage or screenshots.

The once-delayed PlayStation Vita version of Insomniac's hybrid tower defense-action game Ratchet & Clank: Full Frontal Assault will launch next week as a downloadable PlayStation Network title in North America and Europe .

With the release of Metro: Last Light, developer 4A Games brings to the table the most technically dazzling game since Crysis 3 first graced our screens three months ago.

Activision has released Windows PC and PS3 versions of Uprising, the latest DLC Map Pack for the FPS Call of Duty: Black Ops 2. The DLC offers four new multiplayer maps, in addition to Mob of the Dead, "a bone-chilling new Zombies experience that takes players to the notorious prison island of Alcatraz, where four of Hollywood's most iconic mobster ... (more)

GAMING FIRM Nintendo is being accused of trying to profit from user generated videos that have been uploaded to Youtube.

Konami narrowed down the release date of " Metal Gear Solid : The Legacy Collection" on May 17.

The sixth and final character-driven trailer for upcoming PlayStation 3 and PlayStaiton Vita game, Dragon's Crown , has finally made an appearance, introducing players to the Fighter.

With no support from Electronic Arts, the Wii U just experienced its Dreamcast moment.

According to Bloomberg On the surface, the change in fortunes seems perverse; mobile phones are expanding in Mexico whereas Microsoft's biggest weapon Windows 8 is a dud.

The news comes as a blow to Nintendo on the day that it is due to unveil a fresh marketing strategy to boost interest in the Wii U. EA revealed in an interview with tech news site Kotaku that it had halted work on Wii U games.

A brazen shoplifter made off with 33 PlayStation 3 games valued at $697.33 over the course of two visits on two days last week at a local big-box retailer.

Playing video games used to be a pretty sedentary pastime, but motion gaming changed all that.