Features

What were the best parts of 2011's role-playing games? We share our picks and name our official RPG of the year.

Why Microsoft’s Xbox 360 implementation of cloud-based game saving gets it all wrong.

Who came out on top in a year full of great shooters?

We’ve been able to spend some quality time with the Vita and here's our report.

The new possibilities that the Internet has opened up for gamers are
amazing, but it might be worth taking a second to look at who’s being
left behind.

While looking back at my top 10 games of the year list, I realized that
there were a few titles that didn’t make the cut, but that still
deserved recognition for doing something particularly cool. Here are a few of them.

Whether you were looking for a definitive sim-racing experience or
wanted to just have some arcade fun, 2011 was a great year for race
fans.

Learn the story and see gameplay footage for Obsidian: The Game, an arcade cabinet created by one of the studio's employees in his free time with some friends.

Three Game Informer editors stumble their way through the excellent new
cooperative platformer, all for your entertainment.

The biggest disappointment from Sony this year was its failure to capitalize on three little words.

Which sports games earned our praise this year? Read on to find out.

It's been about one year since Microsoft and Sony both released their respective motion controllers, Kinect for Xbox 360 and Move for PlayStation.

Here are a few of my favorite games from the year that I originally didn't even plan on playing.

The team behind South Park: The Game share their favorite episodes and moments from the television show.

Soak in the holiday cheer as Reiner and Phil open gifts and play some questionable games.

There were a lot big trailers shown during the Spike TV Video Game
Awards, but the one that captured my imagination was a
teaser trailer for a modest, download-only game in a franchise that I
haven't paid attention to in years.

Some of the Game Informer editors reminisce about memorable console launches, and we encourage you to do the same.

Remaking classic titles is all the rage these days. Here's a guide to help you keep track of them all.

Whether you love them or hate them, achievements and trophies have
become a required aspect of console gaming.

The Game Informer editors reflect on the last year, thank the fans, and wish everybody a happy holiday season in this special video.