Fallout 3 evolves the series from its 2D, turn-based, isometric roots into a beautifully-rendered, 3D, pseudo real-time, first-person RPG. Find out if Fallout 3 is a worthy successor to the old games or just a shallow rip-off exploiting a known name.

Several of the recently-released big games feature superb cooperative multiplayer modes and we couldn't be happier. This week's Side-Quest addresses why cooperative multiplayer is better for socializing and gives a brief retrospective of its evolution from the arcades.

Epic's Gears of War 2 attempts to outdo the original title with more action, explosions and gore along with a deeper single player story. But it's a new multiplayer mode that makes this sequel a hit.

To celebrate today's release of Wrath of the Lich King, we present an interview with WoW Game Director Jeffrey Kaplan where he talks about drawing inspiration from other games, the lessons of Burning Crusade and how Wrath will change the game.

MMO developer 38 Studios recently acquired Azeroth Advisor, a personalized newsletter for World of WarCraft players. Major League Baseball pitcher and 38 Studios founder Curt Schilling talks with Tom's Games about Azeroth Advisor, Blizzard, and 38 Studios secret title.

The Soviets are back, and this time they've brought the Empire of the Rising Sun with them. Command & Conquer's outrageous series returns with a new faction, fresh units and an online cooperative mode. The result is the best Command & Conquer title in years.

We're not yet ready for a full review of Fallout 3 but after a week in the Capital City Wasteland we wanted to share our thoughts on how things are going and put apprehensive Fallout fans at ease.

Sony's heavily hyped exclusive LittleBigPlanet ambitiously combines platforming, puzzles, community development and user-generated content. The result is a unique experience and a near classic.

Grand Theft Auto clone Saints Row gets a sequel with more gangland violence, crude humor, and sandbox-style action along with customization and multiplayer features. Can Saints Row 2 outdo Grand Theft Auto IV?

Ubisoft's newest shooter Far Cry 2 sports an impressive graphics engine, realistic fire propagation and zebras. Find out of the interactive, open-world environments and African-safari flavor can make up for some repetitive gameplay and the many miles spent in a Jeep.

Electronic Arts' new horror survival title Dead Space blends extreme gore with nightmarish aliens on an abandoned ship in the far reaches of space. Tom's Games reviews the PC version of Dead Space to see if the title achieves bloody greatness.

The sheet covering Star Wars: The Old Republic has been pulled back to offer the faintest glimpse of what the game might have in store. In this week's Side-Quest we look at what elements of "Star Wars" need to find their way into the game.

LucasArts introduces a new intellectual property and gameplay gimmick with Fracture, which features "terrain deformation" and allows players to transform the ground beneath their feat. But is Fracture more than just a gimmick?

The dreams of Peter Jackson's Halo movie appear dead, but hit screenwriter and Halo fan Stuart Beattie is on a mission to resurrect the project with a new story based on "Fall of Reach." Beattie talks with Tom's Games about his Hail Mary pass for Halo.

BioWare and LucasArts finally announced their new Star Wars MMO, titled the Old Republic, after years of rumors and speculation. Can Star Wars: The Old Republic succeed where Star Wars Galaxies failed?

A prequel expansion to S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl puts players back in the radioactive Russian wasteland battling mercenaries and mutants. Clear Sky brings some new elements to the series, but do stability issues derail the game?

More Xbox 360 titles have leaked online, including Far Cry 2, Fable 2 and Gears of War 2. Is the recent trend of console piracy a reaction to publishers shying away from the PC?

Randy Stude, president of the PC Gaming Alliance, had some harsh words for LucasArts regarding the publisher's decision to not make a PC version of Star Wars: The Force Unleashed.

Mark Wahlberg plays the grieving anti-hero Max Payne in this movie adaptation of the successful videogame franchise. "Max Payne" follows the story and look of the first game in the series but doesn't deliver the action.

Ubisoft's World War II shooter franchise returns with Brothers in Arms: Hell's Highway, which combines first-person shooter action with elements of real-time strategy gameplay. But does Hell's Highway really offer the genre anything new?

We sit down with Jay Wilson, lead designer for Blizzard's action/RPG extravaganza Diablo III, to talk about some of the technical and artistic decisions that led to the game's current aesthetic, and how fan reaction affected those decisions.

Tom's Games sits down with Chris Sigaty, the lead producer for StarCraft II, to find out more about Blizzard's decision to split the RTS sequel into a trilogy as well as the development of the games.

In a surprise announcement, Ubisoft has confirmed that the PC version of Far Cry 2 will come with the notorious DRM program SecuROM and limit each user to five activations.

At BlizzCon 2008 we had the opportunity to sit down with a build of Diablo III for some serious quality time. See how the Wizard class plays and what we think of the game at this early stage.

Blizzard once again showed off another demo version of the long-awaited RTS sequel StarCraft II at BlizzCon 2008. Tom's Games takes the Terrans, Zerg and Protoss for a spin to see how StarCraft II is shaping up.

Firaxis reboots Sid Meier's 1994 title Colonization, which focuses on Europe's effort to explore and conquer the New World. Does Colonization live up to the Civilization standard?

Blizzard made a surprise announcement at BlizzCon 2008 regarding the release of StarCraft II. In a risky move, Blizzard will split the Terran, Zerg and Protoss single-player campaigns into three seperate games. But when -- and how -- will they be released?

BlizzCon 2008 is officially underway, and the big news of the day is the introduction of a third playable class for Diablo III: the Wizard.

Blizzard announced this morning at the 2008 BlizzCon oepning ceremony that StarCraft II development was progressing well, but that the game isn't ready for beta just yet. So when will it be released?

Fallout 3 isn't launching until Oct. 28, but the Xbox 360 version of the highly anticipated sequel has already been leaked and has found its way on to torrent sites.

Activision's Call of Duty: World at War brings the franchise back to World War II and introduces Japanese campaigns, flame throwers, and four-player online co-op. Tom's Games gets a hands-on preview of World at War's multiplayer modes.

Hollywood continues to plunder the coffers of the videogame library in the hopes of discovering the elusive successful formula for a game adaptation. In this week's Side-Quest we discuss the BioShock film and Bret Ratner as director of "God of War."

Nearly a year ago, Electronic Arts shut down its Chicago studio. Now some former EA Chicago developers have launched a new company called Robomodo and have already signed a deal to work with Activision Blizzard.

LEGO takes on a new series with Batman, which was inspired by the older, campier Batman movies and features a plethora of villains for the Dynamic Duo. Does LEGO Batman live up to the LEGO Star Wars standard?

Harmonix, EA and MTV Games throw the first punch in the second round of the full-band game battle with Rock Band 2. Taking lessons learned from the first game and delivering an unprecedented library of music Rock Band 2 is an improvement but still very familiar.

In a surprise announcement, Electronic Arts this week cancelled Tiberium, the first-person shooter set in the Command & Conquer universe. The game publisher cited quality concerns and design challenges regarding the move.

Tom's Games takes another look at Will Wright's latest creation Spore and examines the game's distinct gameplay styles to see if Spore lives up to its overwhelming pre-release hype.

The thorn in the side of gaming that was activist and soon-to-be former lawyer Jack Thompson has been permanently removed. In this week's Side-Quest we look at why gaming will always overcome the slings and arrows of the misinformed.

Firaxis' newest installment of the Civilization IV series reboots the old 1994 Sid Meier title Colonization. Tom's Games asks Firaxis producer Jesse Smith about the making of Civilization IV: Colonization and the future of the strategy series.

Crysis Warhead, the stand-alone expansion to Crysis, aims to deliver optimized performance, an action-packed single-player campaign and an enhanced multiplayer experience. Does Crytek hit the mark?

The latest fantasy MMO to hit the stage, Warhammer Online: Age of Reckoning, has been live for a full week and we've been playing it whenever time allows. See our impressions of the early-game content, low-level PvP and graphics.

EA has responded to the backlash against Spore and its SecuROM DRM by increasing the number of activations allowed for the title. But now EA faces a lawsuit on behalf of angry gamers.

LucasArts' highly anticipated Star Wars saga The Force Unleashed gives gamers the opportunity to play Darth Vader's Secret Apprentice and use the Force like never before. But some frustrating control issues and a host of glitches and bugs threaten to derail the most anticipated Star Wars game in years.

Call of Duty: World at War is fast approaching and developer Treyarch faces the unenviable task of releasing a game to follow-up Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare. Will the return to a World War II setting sour the next Call of Duty?

Since Crytpic Studios announced Star Trek Online last month, many MMO fans and Trekkies have been hoping for more details about the game. Cryptic's development team finally provided some answers on the game's official Web site.

Mirror's Edge, the first-person platformer from EA's DICE, will arrive on Nov. 11 in North America for the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360, but the PC version has been delayed.

Guns, vehicles and exploding buildings! We take a second look at the Pandemic Studios' hyper-action shooter Mercenaries 2: World in Flames.

Spore, Will Wright's much-hyped follow-up franchise to The Sims, is finally out. Casting the DRM controversy aside for now we take a critical look at this highly-anticipated PC exclusive that takes gamers from cells to space.

At a recent intelligence conference in Washington, D.C., a Pentagon researcher theorized that terrorists could be using MMOs and virtual worlds to coordinate attacks against the United States.

Korean game publisher NCsoft has restructured its Western subsidiaries, including Richard Garriott's development studio Destination Games, into a new outfit called NC West, which will focus on triple-A titles and MMOs.

According to a recent rumor, Blizzard has kicked Diablo III's development into high gear while putting StarCraft II on the back burner. Will Diablo III arrive before StarCraft II?

Electronic Arts announced its courtship of Grand Theft Auto publisher Take-Two Interactive is officially over. But what does the future hold for both game companies?

Microsoft announced that long-time RTS developer Ensemble Studios would be shut down after completing the console RTS title Halo Wars.

It's been three months since Funcom's fantasy, hack 'n slash, MMO Age of Conan launched and now it's time for a critical look. Is the real-time combat system and integrated story still interesting in the mid to upper levels?

Project Origin, the true sequel to Monolith's acclaimed first-person shooter F.E.A.R., has finally secured the naming rights to "F.E.A.R. 2," which were owned by the original game's publisher Sierra. But fans will have to wait until next year to play F.E.A.R 2: Project Origin.

Mercenaries 2: World in Flames brings back a trio of soldiers of fortune who are out for revenge against a South American dictator. Are bombastic explosions and a variety of weapons and vehicles enough to make Mercenaries 2 better than the original?

Warhammer Online is almost upon us and in its wake will be the usual community in-fighting as it is weighed against the other fantasy MMOs. This week's Side-Quest addresses a theory on why people feel so strongly about their MMO of choice.

Spore, the long awaited PC title from Maxis and Will Wright, is finally here. But the game's anticipated launch has been marred by a massive, grassroots protest over the Spore's SecuROM digital rights management software.

Halo is one of the most successful series in the video game industry, yet the proposed Halo movie has been toiling in development hell despite the support of Peter Jackson and Microsoft. So what's the hold up? Tom's Games investigates.

Blizzard has signed a deal with DirecTV to broadcast the sold-out BlizzCon 2008 event next month - but as a pay-per-view event. Find out how much it will cost and what incentives DirecTV is offering to get gamers to subscribe.