The early days of 2009 are dark ones for Ziff Davis' erstwhile Game Group. Giant Bomb salutes the departed staffers.

Microsoft's online service has hit a new record for concurrent on line users. Is that everything's been so darn slow?

Yeah, good. Restrict access to the thing that helps you sell games to people who have already purchased it. Great idea.

Epic takes another crack at fixing what ails its multiplayer shooter.

The folks at AOL's game site have put together a list of 2008 picks from some of games writing's heaviest hitters, and also, us.

A bit of what we've heard about CES so far makes it sound like it'll be another non-event for games.

The holidays may be over, but the generosity isn't for the maker of BioShock, Civilization, and, uh, Dora the Explorer.

Do the makers of Metal Gear Solid need to shake things up to compete with Western games?

Crash Commando takes the conventions of the modern first-person shooter and puts them into a side-scrolling game, resulting in a fast-moving shooter that successfully merges old and new.