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We look at the benefits of single player and multiplayer game modes, whether players like one over the other and the growing trends of MMO and multiplayer-only titles.

Want to engage your inner swashbuckler? Here’s a look at some of the best video games that let you fight with swords.

Micro-managing madness moves the market and mauls miniscule media like a macrodont. Strategy scholars spend senselessly, as space-shooters or shoot-em-ups slump spectacularly. Magniloquence? Hardly, as we present the best of strategy for the PC platform.

Strategic Simulations Incorporated, SSI, was one of the most prolific publishers of strategy titles in both the real-time and turn-based subgenres during the 1990’s and early 2000’s. Unfortunately changes in the genre’s demand during this time undermined SSI’s profitability, and it closed down.

Bleak landscapes, nuclear debris and a few scattered surviving communities are sure ingredients for a cozy catastrophe, where scavengers roam the land for rusted engines or other ferrous remains. In here, you’ll find post-apocalyptic game titles and in the dark corners of Bright Hub.

While Star Wars: The Old Republic is one of the most highly-anticipated MMOs currently in development, there are several others that are also gaining interest and momentum. These are the games that players are frothing for, the games that we most want in our hot little hands.

The humble beginnings of video games offered us a less-than-palatable aural experience, mere strident tones in elementary sequences confined to 8-bit worlds. Then came phonic landscapes and canvases rivalling the best of Hollywood’s sound sculptors. Here’s a look at how it all evolved.

Since sight and sound are the only two senses game developers have to communicate with players, getting the most of these two senses is of vital importance, and a great PC and video game soundtrack is key to reaching that goal.

Anticipation turns to anger as the hopeful player purchases that sought-after release, acclaimed by marketing monsters as the “next best thing.” Rage and curses best left until after-hours ensue. Here you’ll find ten gaming stinkers, across all platforms, that everybody wishes they’d never bought.

Don’t spam the results of every fight to my chat log; I’m not paying attention to those numbers regardless of whether I’m tanking, healing or playing my ‘Lock. I hate the DPS meters in MMO games and I’m happy to explain exactly why.