With The Amazing Spider-Man set to hit Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 in a matter of weeks, Activision will be introducing the best of both worlds when it comes to the web slinger’s gaming adventures.  On the one hand, the development team at Beenox is handling the game, and you already know about the work they did on Shattered Dimensions and Edge of Time.  On the other, they’re going with the open level design that worked so well in previous Spider-Man games before that.  You can’t lose.

When it comes to the global sport, soccer still reigns supreme. EA has sold over 100 million copies of its FIFA games over the years. With E3 around the corner, Electronic Arts unveiled five new innovations that will bring big changes to EA SPORTS FIFA Soccer 13, along with the largest and deepest feature set in the history of the franchise.

Game journalism isn't as easy as it looks.  Oh, sure, you think we just sit around all day and play Max Payne 3, but the truth is, playing is just part of the job.  Writing is a huge, fundamental part of it, as you have to be able to express yourself in the right manner, not just go "This is cool because blah blah."  You need to FEEL right about the job.  One step to getting an idea of what video game journalism is all about is getting the book Critical Path: How To Review Videogames For a Living, written by Dan Amrich.  Dan, also known as One of Swords on Twitter (@oneofswords), worked in journalism for the longest time before taking a job working with Activision.  Still, he remembers his days fondly enough, as he put his experience into words to help guide young minds of tomorrow down the RIGHT path of journalism.  You know, the one that doesn't involve "blah blah".

Long before actor Masi Oka broke into Hollywood with the NBC TV hit, “Heroes,” his work had been seen by millions of people on the big screen. It’s just that they didn’t know it. Oka spent years as a programmer for George Lucas’ Industrial Light & Magic (ILM) writing hundreds of thousands of lines of code. It was his programming that allowed ILM to bring the water effects to life in films like The Perfect Storm. In fact, even though he doesn’t actively write code for ILM any more, his technology can still be seen on the big screen in films like Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides. While Oka is currently starring in the CBS hit, “Hawaii Five-0,” he’s using his programming background to actively develop original video games aimed at the Japanese audience. The tech guru and self-professed gamer talks about his latest projects in this exclusive interview.

We’re all for trying something new in a long-running series, but the problem is when an idea is introduced that doesn’t pan out like the development team expected it to.  Sadly, this is looking like the case for Lionhead Studios’ Fable.  After three entertaining adventure outings, the series is drastically moving into Kinect territory later this year with Fable: The Journey, which, honestly, doesn’t look so hot right now.  To make matters worse, things don’t really fare much better with Lionhead’s recent XBLA release, Fable Heroes.

While only half of the respondents to ABI Research’s Technology Barometer survey claimed to rent video games, which are usually game console centric, as compared to DVD and Blu-ray movies, these respondents averaged a considerably higher monthly spend rate at $23, compared to $16 for DVD and Blu-ray. This average spend also eclipsed monthly premium Video on Demand rentals from pay-TV service providers ($20) – only monthly expenditures at movie theaters and restaurants (“eating out”) were higher amongst respondents who participated in those activities, at $27 and $67, respectively.

The point and click genre is most known for Tim Schafer 1990’s work with games like Grim Fandango, Full Throttle and Secrets of Monkey Island, but has long held the work of Jane Jensen. Jane Jensen is a designer, director and writer in the genre. She was most known for her writing helping to create interesting characters and interesting storylines in games in like the Gabriel Knight series and now her newest Kickstarter project. A game that has been purely designed by and for the fans of the point and click genre.

Throughout the history of video games, the oldest stereotype surrounding the industry has always been do violent video games affect player behavior and personality. It is a known fact that people who play games are exposed to more violence than the average consumer. From nuking entire civilization to obliterating players online, it’s has become more and more common now that games are more focus on squarely providing violent action. For this reason alone, parents have long held an underlining negative attitude towards the industry and those who stand by it, but is this criticism injustice or have developers gone to far? Should government step in?

Over the past few years, Konami Digital Entertainment has worked closely with school districts in Hawaii and West Virginia to integrate its bestselling DanceDanceRevolution (DDR) game into their physical education programs. Now the game publisher is taking things a step further. This fall, schools around the nation will be able to use DanceDanceRevolution Classroom Edition, a PC-based game crafted specially for schools and fitness classes. Sweeping the nation one classroom at a time, Konami Digital Entertainment, Inc. has collaborated with  the nation’s leading health and fitness organizations including the American Diabetes Association, The National Foundation on Fitness, Sports, and Nutrition and Let’s Move in Schools to promote fitness in schools through the new DanceDanceRevolution Classroom Edition.

To celebrate the James Bond franchise’s 50th anniversary and the release of the 23rd film, SKYFALL, Activision Publishing has a brand new game experience featuring the iconic British spy. Gamers will travel through time to relive a selection of Bond’s most iconic and intense undercover missions from six popular Bond film franchise with 007 Legends. In tandem with this video game release, 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment will unleash the James Bond Collection on Blu-ray for the first time, which will allow gamers to watch, and then play, the entire James Bond collection.

When Trials HD came out a few years ago for Xbox Live Arcade, little did we know how much of a racing/strategic gem that RedLynx would end up creating.  The game has sold over two million units, with players logging in best racing times like crazy and yearning for more of the same.  Well, after a long, tedious wait, we finally have Ubisoft’s Trials Evolution, a game that follows a similar formula to the first game, but exceeds it in every category.  This, folks, is how you get a sequel made right.