5WGaming is proud to present the following article by Guest Writer Andrew Begley of Newcastle, Australia, who serves as webmaster and forum administrator of the NBA Live Series Center, a long-running site dedicated to improving basketball gaming.
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Of all the developments in the world of video games in the twenty-first century to get excited about and […]

The Call of Duty franchise keeps on rolling forward, but the latest iteration takes gamers backward in time once more. After last year’s well-received Modern Warfare, the series returns to its World War II roots with a gripping, intense experience that’s hard to find fault with.
Call of Duty: World At War is a finely polished […]

Thanksgiving is a time to reflect on the things that make your life a bit more pleasant. For me (and since you’re here - it’s safe to assume that for you, too), gaming is one of those things. So, in the spirit of the holiday, I’ve considered a few of gaming’s little treasures that keep […]

In case you missed it, Wired’s Clive Thompson penned a terrific piece about role-playing games and the single player, noting that 70 percent of low-level World of Warcraft players play by themselves. In my preferred MMORPG, Lord of The Rings Online, I do the same.
Why? Because first and foremost, most gamers inevitably reach a point […]

Facing a stronger challenger than any they’ve seen in the last half-dozen years, NBA 2K9 arrives on the scene today with lofty expectations. Gaming’s preeminent basketball simulation stands as 2K Sports’ strongest entry in the sports genre, but its growth curve had slowed somewhat in the last two years.
NBA 2K9 brings a gust of fresh […]

Not-so-deep thoughts for a Friday afternoon:

Noted radio talk show host Michael Medved brings the crazy with his screed against Grand Theft Auto IV, clumsily entitled, “War on Middle Class Values, Not on Middle Class”. I have concerns about GTA IV and it’s content at times, too… but then again, I think that Al Pacino’s wildly […]

On a lovely Monday in Burnaby, British Columbia, 20 or so gamers and soccer fans from North America and Europe all sat down for nearly 14 hours in a crowded conference room with the developers of FIFA 09 for a sneak peek at the latest version of the long-running game series.
Sure, there was an enticing […]

Electronic Arts is serious about their foray into the science fiction/horror genre, Dead Space. (Note that I didn’t say “dead serious”, much as I wanted to.)
With one of the… ickiest game covers in recent memory, EA is going out of their way to prove that the hardcore, over-the-top violent sci-fi gaming popularized in Epic Games’ […]

While Spore itself - Will Wright’s long-in-development magnum opus of “god games” - won’t be released until September, the game’s Creature Creator, which serves as a bit of a preview of the upcoming title, will be within reach long before that.
Available on Wednesday, June 18, the Creature Creator allows gamers to create animals for the […]

Musing for a slow-moving Monday afternoon…

The Boston Globe reports on - surprise - gaming “addiction”, specifically in the multiplayer online game World of Warcraft. “Known to be particularly habit-forming, World of Warcraft launches players on elaborate adventures in a virtual universe, often in the company of buddies that they meet inside the game. In some […]