If you haven't heard by now, Infinity Ward, the developers behind upcoming FPS Modern Warfare 2, have released a YouTube public service announcement warning players against unsportsman-like "grenade spam." It's all well and fine, but the five seconds at the end of the video inform you that the PSA has been brought to you by "Fight Against Grenade Spam," or, FAGS.

Chaim Gingold, the lead designer behind the creature creator tools found in EA's Spore, along with Brutal Legend artist Jane Ng, has released Earth Dragon for the iPhone. In the game, which appeared on the App Store yesterday, you play the role of a smash-and-roar green dragon tasked to claim revenge against humanity on behalf of Mother Earth for their transgressions against her world.

Via Kotaku, Demian Linn at Bitmob has a lengthy article going over the experience he discovered in his review copy of Dragon Age: Origins– specifically, the variations of sexual encounters a player can have in the game. Aside from the expected heterosexual encounters, there is also room for gay, lesbian and apparently even transgendered sex scenes.

Adam happened across an interesting ad on the Borderlands Wikia page earlier today.

It seems that any game coming out these days touts "moral ambiguity" as a selling point. But is this mechanic worth the hype or just a failed caricature of human ethics that gives the illusion of choice but instead forces players into unrealistic and stereotyped paradigms?

With the impending release of Windows 7, tech news media has stepped up the common refrain that somehow Vista was a "failed" operating system. While the OS certainly had a rocky launch, is its negative perception today really accurate or the result of misunderstandings and incorrect representations?

The latest compilation project from OverClocked ReMix is Humans + Gears and re-envisions Yasunori Mitsuda's opus from Xenogears. Started in 2006, Humans + Gears is a two disc, 33-track album featuring submissions from thirty different artists. The scope of the album is split into two halves; Human is softer and more acoustic while Gears is more electronic and mechanical. Having gone through the entire two discs earlier I was blown away by the impressiveness of many of the songs– while they all have their roots in a video game soundtrack, so many of the arrangements completely stand on their own legs without seeming like someone ran a MIDI through Reason.