Rebellions are messy business, but so long as you’re the one junking up the place, they can be pretty fun. This is especially true if your “junking” tool of choice is a giant, building-busting hammer. Don’t believe us? Just try playing Volition’s 2009 sleeper hit Red Faction: Guerrilla.

Being two-faced doesn't have to be a bad thing, and that's exactly what Razer is banking on with the release of its Vespula "gaming grade" mousepad, a dual-sided mat giving gamers the choice between speed or control.

There’s always a catch. Rapture was an underwater utopia, created as a permanent getaway for the world’s brightest minds… but, the place quickly degenerated into a brainpower-bolstered battleground. Which is good for us, as it means BioShock 2’s packing a fairly robust multiplayer mode. But, again, there’s a catch: no LAN or dedicated servers.

Ringing it at $500 to $830, the newly announced 1.5-pound iPad doesn't seem to bring much new to the table, despite Apple calling it magical.

EA was present at Apple's iPad event today, giving us a glimpse of the first big-name game running on the iPad, testing the device's power with Need for Speed.

Yeah, sure, “always-connected anti-piracy plan” is just a tongue-twisting maze of exec-speak for “different DRM,” but the devil’s in the details, so let’s see what Ubisoft’s got cooking.

Mark your calendars, folks, because… wait, do they even make calendars for 2012 yet? Well, regardless, that’s how long you’ll be waiting to have a go at Interplay’s already long-in-development Fallout MMO, codenamed “Project: V13.”

The Independent Games Festival just went down, and as usual, the Student Showcase is knocking everyone’s socks off. The Student Showcase has a history of producing some amazing stuff. In fact, Valve’s uber-successful Portal was a product of the Student Showcase in 2006. Several more recent entries are about to be released on WiiWare and the Xbox Live Arcade.