Sfgate: Once again we're stuck in the dead months of winter gaming, when there's little to do beyond catching up with titles that got lost in the fall shuffle and waiting a few weeks for the first of the year's big releases. Our picks for 2009 will come in the next column; in the meantime, here are some trends we'd like to see more (and less) of that might inform our choices.
It's important in life to maintain a broad palette when it comes to culture and the arts. Hideo Kojima agrees, as he continues to use video games like Death Stranding to introduce people to music and other elements they might not otherwise discover.
Mojang has partnered with Merlin Entertainments to build the world's first Minecraft theme park in the UK.
A three-episode live-action adaptation of the first two Yakuza video games will debut Tuesday, March 17 exclusively IGN. Each episode is about an hour long and will stream on IGN.com and IGN’s YouTube channel.
