Global media holdings group Tencent has announced a new campaign aimed at restricting the youth of China's access to video games. The new measures are a part of China's current efforts to combat what it sees as "Gaming Addiction" which it b...

A few days ago, in the wake of discussion about how recent hits such as Fortnite may be having an effect on children and young persons, talk turned to how the first gaming addiction treatment centres have sprung up in the UK. The World...

If you haven't heard about Rocket League yet for the PlayStation 4, then let me sum it up for you in just three words: soccer with cars. The game is the sequel to the PlayStation 3's Supersonic Acrobatic Rocket-Powered Battle Cars and it's ...

God, friggin'... AAAAARGH! Another late HAWP post! Christ, why can't I ever catch these on time!? If they were on YouTube, I'd get direct email notifications of new uploads, but noooooooOOO!!! The Burch's are doing this to me on purpose. I...

The other day I was playing my new obsession Spelunky and, of course, died while trying to complete the dreaded ice caves. It was late and I really needed to go to bed. Instead of turning off the game -- or even thinking about turning off t...

I started playing a bit of Kingdom Rush two weeks ago following the news of the Flash game's iPad release, and managed to drag myself away from Ironhide Game Studio's excellent little tower defense title before an entire day was lost. Alas,...

According to a poll done by the association BITCOM in Germany, gamers seem to be pretty sensible about the amount of time they spend with their favorite hobby. While 62% of those asked play videogames on a daily base, most of them don't pla...

Our little community-run IRC channel has been active since 2007, and some years ago we moved from some server I don't even remember to Dynastynet. However, Dynastynet has been having some serious connections issues the past few weeks, so we...

[Important: We have moved from Dynastynet to Quakenet. Just use the info under "Basic Info" as server info for all steps of the guide. Registering yourself doesn't work via Nickserv on Quakenet, so use this as a guide instead] IRC has been...

To celebrate the most candid of holidays and to say "thank you" for over six million downloads, Chillingo the publishers behind leading iOS game Cut the Rope, will be giving owners a Valentines themed update. The update will provide Cut th...

You know what is going to be fantastic about this year's E3? It won't just be Nintendo executives flailing around on stage looking like idiots. This year all three companies are going to have highly paid business men and women waving their...

Just when you finally stopped suffering withdrawals from your Peggle addiction, you're about to dive right back into the thick of it. Consider me your honorary shoulder-bound little devil for the day. Go on, download this free level pack fo...

So this week the Entertainment Merchants Association released statistics on how the gaming industry was doing. Turns out the industry is doing pretty good year-to-year despite the current slump in console sales. Still the analyst say that t...