"Over the years, gamers have seen dozens of high-profile titles make their world debut by being featured on the cover of Game Informer. In fact, if you’re a regular shopper at GameStop, you’re probably one of the magazine’s more than two million readers.

But does a game getting on Game Informer’s cover signal it’s going to be great?

Can you be confident that these debuts will, one or two years later, become games you want to buy and play? Perhaps the magazine has a “Madden” curse (though..."

"When I first spun up Pro Street and began playing, I was expecting another street racing game, an open city to explore, jerk off racers who wanted to best you, and all that fun stuff that we had come to see in the series ever since NFS: Underground, but when I entered my first race day and realized all the races were legit circuit races, I had to ask: did Electronic Arts get threatened or in any other manner get in trouble for using street racing in its games, despite the public service annou..."