Nintendo World Summit

MINECON 2012: Analogue redstone, better minecarts, and a host of bug fixes make up the latest Minecraft update.

Relic reveals the second of two new races featured in the second expansion pack to its hit sci-fi RTS: the virtually unstoppable Necrons. See them in action, and read our first impressions of the game's new features.

Long before Grand Theft Auto established the video game sandbox, before "emergent gameplay" was an industrywide buzzword, upstart developer Irrational Games married first-person action akin to that of Doom and Half-Life with rich, open-ended character development and a masterfully crafted, horror-tinged storyline to create System Shock 2.