Everybody loves it when cheaters and exploiters get punished for being losers, but many companies forgo the punishment in order to keep players around to pay the bills… well so it once was. Now with the advent of free-to-play and one time purchases (like Diablo and Guild Wars) companies can deliver the wrath of the ban hammer with extreme prejudice without it affecting their bottom-line. Editor’s note: Props goes to Blizzard... 

Okay so Street Fighter X Tekken is great but the only gripe I have right now is the online portion. Players can attest that nothing is more frustrating than NOT being able to get into a match – be it “Endless” or Ranked”. For the love of love of God please fix the audio glitches! Basically while you are playing mid-match the game audio will play like half the sounds and you can only hear the music. Even worse is that... 

Warning! Comments will contain SPOILERS! SPOILERS! SPOILERS! Hey fellow Mass Effect fans who have beaten the game, let’s discuss the ending of Mass Effect 3 and the huge disappointment we feel (or don’t feel) after beating it. After reviewing the game and expressing my own negative feelings on the ending itself, I took to the web and noticed that I wasn’t alone in my disappointment with the way things ended. Is... 

This image was borrowed from gamer Haajib in the SWTOR community forums. While I am not complaining, I just thought it was an excellent representation of what we see in the game currently, especially on PVP servers. For future developers of MMORPG that  may see this and other posts like mine – treat it as a reason why you don’t make one class have all the snacks plus the sexy time. The last time I checked the Star... 

“Microsoft is suggesting that anything but parity will result in them not carrying a title. They may think this is competitive, but it’s not. They are killing any creative exposure of titles to make up for their own platform’s shortcomings.” – Anonymous publisher Let’s cut to the chase shall we, Microsoft recently announced that they will not put out games on XBLA if they have been on PSN first. Hmmm... 

Well the ongoing war of the used game market versus the Capitalist fat cats rages on with lines being drawn and people taking sides with their champion of choice. Jim Sterling of Destructoid.com wrote a very appealing article today which won me over to his side in an argument that had never weighed too much on my conscious thought (because I don’t buy used games often). It seems that more and more effort is being made by... 

Ladies and gentlemen meet Yun, one half of a pair of Wushu twins (Yun and Yang) and the new Flavor of The Month for the upcoming Super Street Fighter 4: Arcade Edition. From the numerous videos being uploaded to YouTUBE and the commentary from people that have had the privilege to play the game, Yun is the new Sagat aka God Tier for this edition. what this means kids, is that you can expect that every other match you play online... 

In the latest XBox update – Microsoft has included a stealth disable script  in order to punish those who have decided to mod their XBox 360… one problem though, their little “fix” has been reported to have affected some non-modded systems too. I wonder if they’re still over there laughing at the PSN debacle when Sony attempted to war Jack Sparrow and his pirate horde earlier this year? Makes you... 

Did some decision maker over at Bioware fall on his head this week or what? Recently on Twitter, Creative development director Alistair McNally decided it was a good idea to alert us on the development of a Dragon Age 3. Why would you ever in a million years assume that it’s a good idea to let us know of a sequel a few months after the release of a disastrous, bug-ridden game? Oh I get it, we’re idiot gamers, is that... 

So a couple weeks back I wrote an article about “Plug Pullers: The Cheating Losers of Online Gaming“. Well as a frequent lurker on the forums at Shoryuken.com, I found many threads expressing the same concern. But aside from threads, the gamers there offered something even juicier than article writing… they provided video and image proof! Now granted with every guy like me that says “punish the cheaters!”...