Today the Academy of Interactive Arts and Sciences picked 2010’s winners. Read Dead Redemption, the open-world western shooter developed by Rockstar was this edition’s top dog, taking home no less than 5 AIAS awards: action game, art direction, game direction, character performance and gameplay engineering. Read Dead Redemption’s success was already foretold by The Escapist Magazine which on January 21, 2011 awarded it with 2010 Game of the Year, praising the game for its engaging and well-told narrative and innovative gameplay and design. … More

Have you ever dreamed of saving the galaxy… twice? Well now you can, as the highly anticipated sequel of the famous BioWare RPG is finally out. Two years have passed since Commander Shepard has defended the galaxy from the Reaper threat and saved all organic life from annihilation. Not much has happened since. The newly formed human controlled Council is wasting no effort in burying any Reaper related information and shifting the public’s attention towards the artificially created life form known as the Geth. All inhabitance from some human colonies based in the Terminus Systems are mysteriously disappearing and no one has a clue as to why or how. A new alien race, The Collectors, makes its dramatic stage entry. Oh yes, and there is also the small matter of your death which functions as the main catalyst of the whole sequence of events that hold Mass Effect 2 together. … More