Evan Killham has written for Bitmob and a bunch of sites you’ve never heard of (but not in a hipster way). He spends half of his day making bad jokes, half of his day explaining and/or apologizing for those jokes, and a third half trying to think of interesting things to write on the Internet. He receives the extra time from his best friend, a cyborg monkey capable of bending time and space. He is currently adapting their story into an off-off-off-Broadway musical entitled “Macaque to the Future.”

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Players fight 1.4 million battles a day in mobile MMO Modern War (infographic)

Mobile-game developer Gree’s data shows the impact of “live events” on gamer participation and revenue.

Bundle Dragon brings the pay-what-you-want model to everyone

A new content-sharing platform opens up the customer-friendly system to anyone with a few projects to sell.

Breach & Clear is ambitious, strategic, and shallow (review)

Breach & Clear aims to bring the console experience to mobile devices, but it’s missing a few important pieces.

E3 2013: The year of the open world

This year’s E3 featured a multitude of titles with nonlinear gameplay in sprawling environments. Here are pretty much all of them.

The real (and imaginary) vehicles of E3 2013 (gallery)

Neither E3 attendees nor video game characters enjoy walking everywhere. Here are some alternatives that were on display at the trade show.

King announces Pet Rescue Saga mobile so you can save kittens anywhere

The puzzle game joins King’s two other cross-platform titles in the developer’s plot for mobile and browser domination.

Tales from E3: The industry shares its favorite stories

What do people eat at the trade show? What’s the most awkward way to serve drinks at a party? Where’s the last place you’d expect to see a Starbucks? Read on to find out.

CastleStorm offers fun, sheep-driven destruction and distracting strategy (review)

The makers of Pinball FX are looking to expand beyond table-based entertainment. Their solution: Angry Birds plus Warcraft.

Read+Watch+Listen: Bonus material for BioShock Infinite fans

Here are some suggestions for further study if you’d like to keep your BioShock Infinite experience going.

Here’s a chart of every choice in The Walking Dead: Season 1 (image)

If you’re curious about the paths that you didn’t take in The Walking Dead, but not enough to play the game again, we have you covered.

Serious Sam Double D XXL is an old-school concept full of newfangled ideas (review)

Remember at the end of Aliens when Ripley tied all those guns together? This game lets you do basically that.

18 ridiculous(ly expensive) video game special editions

Game developers are increasingly fond of including doodads and gizmos with the premium editions of their games. Here are some of the most ridiculously expensive special editions ever released, in roughly ascending order.

Serious Sam Double D XXL’s multiplayer is like insane sour cream on crazy-ass nachos (hands-on preview)

The heroes of the upcoming Xbox Live Arcade side-scroller explain the multiplayer mode. Usually by messing up.

Phone Fight wonders if my iOS device can beat up your iOS device (hands-on preview)

An upcoming free-to-play game turns your iPhone into a Tamagotchi-like virtual pet that you then send off to do battle with other people’s devices.