Despite some very 
concerted efforts by video game publishers, it appears 3D is still having trouble finding traction with gamers.
More than half of 1,000 gamers recently surveyed say they’re not interested in 3D becoming a part of the next generation of consoles.
When Rage, the 
long-awaited shooter from id Software, hits shelves Oct. 4, it will end a seven-year drought for the company.
The pioneering game developer is often credited with creating the first-person shooter genre through revolutionary games like 1992’s Wolfenstein 3D (often hailed as the first FPS ever) and the ever-controversial Doom, but it hasn’t produced a new game since 2004.
It’s been 14 
years since Sub-Zero, Johnny Cage, Sonya Blade and Raiden were in theaters, but in 2013, they’ll be back.
New Line Cinema and Warner Bros. Interactive are partnering to bring Mortal Kombat back to the big screen — and they may just be able to redeem the franchise’s long tarnished cinematic legacy.
Gamers descended 
on retailers like locusts to grab their copies of Gears of War 3.
Microsoft says the latest installment in the series sold 3 million copies in its first week, making it the biggest game of the year (so far).
It’s official: video 
games are art, says the Supreme Court. And this week, two of the greatest examples of games as art — Ico and Shadow of the Colossus — paint their breathtaking strokes on the PS3 in a new collection.
So what other games should join them as gaming’s equivalent to the great works of Picasso, Monet and Michelangelo? Since beauty is in the eye of the beholder, that’s really up to you. But if we were designing our own wing in a video game art museum, we’d start with these masterpieces.
Competition is clearly 
lacking among NFL games, and with the once-mighty NBA Live on hold this year, you won’t find dueling basketball titles on store shelves until 2012.
Soccer fans, however, have a tricky choice when it comes to video game simulations.
After exploring 
hundreds of fictional alien planets, gamers have helped scientists locate two real ones.
Players of the browser-based game Planet Hunters have identified a pair of planets outside of our solar system that appear to have Earth-like characteristics. Now we just need to invent a faster-than-light spaceship so we can go explore them.
As the 2012 election 
draws near, the number of safe havens from politicking is shrinking fast. Facebook was compromised nearly three years ago. Now, some of the most popular games on the social network are at risk.
Candidates and strategists have fully embraced the gamification theory, it seems — and Farmville is squarely in their sites.
Treating a cancer 
patient is usually done through a regimen of drugs, radiation or surgery. But researchers at the University of Utah have put together a new video game supplement to those scary methods.
Unveiled last week, PE Interactive is a motion-controlled game meant to help kids get through rough treatments by building their physical and mental health and giving them a sense of empowerment.
Electronic Arts 
really wants to screw up your last minute Christmas shopping this year.
After months (or years, even) of anticipation, the company has finally unveiled the launch date for Star Wars: The Old Republic — and it’s a bit of a head-scratcher.
Chris Morris: Journalist 