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At PAX last month, Craig Skistimas of ScrewAttack, Our Fearless Leader Niero, and The Most Trusted Man in Gaming Jon Carnage held a “How to Build a Website” panel. Footage of the event can be beamed directly into your skull via the links below. And if you children behave yourselves, theDtoid Live 2footage might appear. Maybe. I’ve only watched some of the first part so far, but contractual obligations (and the threat of waking up with a horse head in my bed) dictate that I say, “This is the greatest moment in the history of eternity ever captured on video, and it is greater than chocolate cake, bubblegum raindrops, and golden unicorn farts combined!...

Recently announced as the winner of theTIGSource Adult/Educational Competition, it’s probably better not to tell you whatEdmundis about in any great detail. Suffice to say, it tackles a subject seldom explored in videogames, indie or otherwise. I didn’t like it, at all. And not because of the subject matter. I’m getting rather burned out on games that claim to offer meaningful activity, but are really just prebaked stories with some multiple endings thrown in that don’t really lend themselves to interactivity....

The ground did not shake and planets did not collide whenApple finally announced their much-rumored tablet computing device, the iPad, this week. In fact, unless you were an Apple product fanatic, this announcement hardly registered as little more than an tech-related blip in your readers and feeds. Actually, I guess the internet did slow down alittle. Otherwise, big deal, right? And gamers? They heard about it, dropped some snark on Twitter, and then went about their business of playinggames with proper buttons....

Multiplayer is probably here to stay, but Russell Carroll fromGametunnelis the first I’ve heard to question its importance in gaming today. His writeup,“Why Online Multiplayer isn’t all that Important”, likens playing online to a “lame party” and brings up the “empty feeling of multiplayer” that is heard about every so often. He also touches on how the face-to-face interaction that gaming used to center around is being phased out. Microsoft’s entire strategy seems built around multiplayer — on both the Xbox 360 and Windows Vista — so much so that it seems odd when a title is released that does not support online play....

Xbox Live Arcade exclusiveIslands of Wakfuwill be available for download on March 30, the developer Ankama Play tells us. A mix between a beat ’em up, a shooter, and an adventure game,Islands of Wakfudefinitely has a slick visual style working in its favor. The developer is claiming it has a “dynamic, never-seen-before fighting style,” along with a two-player cooperative mode. Beating things up, shooting them, and adventuring around will cost you 1200 MS Points....

James Pondis one of the earliest games I ever remember playing and I have a distinct fondness for it, so I’m quite pleased to see that the British platforming series has made a comeback with the iOS platform as its new home. James Pond in the Deathly Shallowsison the App Store for a mere $0.99 and seems to keep the spirit of the original titles alive, as if the terrible and only vaguely fish-related punnery wasn’t enough of a clue....

Megan Fox, Megan Fox, Megan Fox. It’s seemingly all I hear about lately, as America has found yetanotherrelatively hot female to latch onto and saturate the world with until everybody’s bored of her. One person is reportedlyalreadyangry at theMegan Fox craze, and she has every right to be — after all, she just stole her role as Lara Croft in theTomb Raidermovies. According toThe Sun(so who knows how truthful it is?...

According to scientists who did scientific things using science,Killzone 3possesses less input lag than its predecessor. This sort of lag was a major issues for some gamers inKillzone 2, so they’ll be pleased to know that their bullets will shootslightly fasternow. The lag was put through its paces by the chaps at Digital Foundry, who used a special controller to gauge the time it took between pressing R1 and firing a weapon....

Fending off crowds at E3 last week, I found a moment to sit down and briefly chat with Konami’s legendary Koji “IGA” Igarashi. IGA was there to promote the upcoming Xbox LIVE Arcade title,Castlevania: Harmony of Despair, a multiplayer action title that supports up to six players over Xbox LIVE. A curious take on the series with its focus on multiplayer, IGA saysHarmony of Despairarose from the development team’s experimentation with high definition wide screen....

Professor Layton has a rather dashing mustachioed doppelgänger in Doctor Lautrec, who’s bringing his own brand of puzzle-solving escapades to the 3DS this summer. Doctor Lautrec and the Forgotten Knightswill see the titular doctor and his young protégée Sophie searching for the lost treasure of Louis XIV. There will be various logic puzzles as well as lovely hand-drawn cutscenes strewn about. In other words, exactly like aLaytongame! In all seriousness, this ought to be a satisfactory time-waster until Level-5 decides to localize the rest of theLaytonseries....

If you’re like me and you require more out of a game than “fps pew pew pew army mans frag tag blah blah blah”, then you’ll probably also looking forward toHeroes of Mana, the next in the line ofSquare-Enix’sepic but often under appreciated RPG series. It takes place in the Mana universe, set before Seiken Densetsu 3, also known as the ‘Mana game that slipped though the cracks’ as it never saw a U....

Will there be a better name for any game that comes out this year? I have to be frank here, it’s highly unlikely. When Nick announced this game last it was known asZombie BBQ, which was a pretty great name on its own. But now the name seems to have lengthened toLittle Red Riding Hood’s Zombie BBQ, and my expectations for its greatness have increased exponentially as well. Theofficial websitefor the upcoming DS game has launched, where you can explore and learn more about the story and characters....

Zipper Interactive’sMAGappears to be doing quite well, demonstrating that more than 256 people actually use the PlayStation Network at any given time, despite what the cynics might claim. The ambitious multiplayer shooter is doing rather decently, with 500,000 active players clogging up the servers. Not too shabby. 270,000 Shadow War games have been played since launch. Most of those games must surely have been played by UK fans, where the game has remained a top ten fixture....