Blizzard is currently prepping patch 1.1 for StarCraft II, which it hopes to get out around mid-September.
Here’s what we can look forward to: more mod features, bug fixes, improvements to the editor and custom games, support for NVIDIA’s 3D Vision, standardized hotkey options, and more. The patch will make “the Standard (US) and Standard for Lefties (US) hotkey options available in all regions.”
And then there’s the balancing stuff, which I have to imagine will anger many a vocal StarCraft II player for reasons I cannot fully comprehend. I’d be a …

Poor BioShock 2. Not only does it have to be the direct sequel to one of the most critically acclaimed titles of all time, BioShock 2 had to deal with a weaker plot and an audience that approached it with particularly outstanding expectations.
That’s a lot to live up to.
With the recently announced BioShock Infinite wowing players with a new take on American identity, BioShock 2 now resides as the resident red-headed stepchild of the franchise. Which is a shame, as it really is quite a good game. However, for those …

Wait, what? Prior to Left 4 Dead, Valve was working on a prototype for a “flying fairy game.” In an interview with PC Gamer, Gabe Newell and other leading men at Valve spilled the details.
“That was a useful failure to us, because it was so clearly dumb that it made us say, ‘OK, what are we actually good at that we can do instead?’”
“It was so bad,” Gabe explains, “you wanted to ask yourself: ‘How could we make a game that was this bad? And how should we make a …

In the last debate, we had one of the closest voting races I’ve ever seen. Persona 4 would take the lead by two or three votes, and then Persona 3 would strike back with a few votes of its own to tie it up. This continued about ten times until one game’s pool of fans eventually dried up. It was exciting to see them compete, and both games should be proud of their performance. Here are the results:

Persona 4 — (54 votes) — Winner!
Persona 3 / Persona 3 FES — (41 …