“F.E.A.R. 3” is an oddly timed horror-themed release that doesn’t give a good incentive to evade the summer sun.

Disabled World War I vets defend the world from hostile, tentacled TV-robots by firing upon them from “mobile trenches."

Game developers and publishers gathered at the Los Angeles Convention Center for the Electronic Entertainment Expo.

In a medium where even a cult favorite puzzle game can become a franchise, it’s refreshing how “Portal 2” meets the high expectations set by the original without sticking to the same old routine.

Austin, known as one of the primary hubs of the video game industry, may soon find the next generation of game artists, designers and programmers studying within the walls of UT this fall.

Video game franchises live on within the walls of publishers primarily for profit, but the pixilated heroes of fans’ youth continue to resonate because of nostalgia.

Every week, Angela Frederick walks across UT’s West Mall, passing political activists who ignore her and evangelists who say they will pray for her blindness. Earlier this month, she was approached by Brian ‘Rosh’ Rocheleau about his traveling event, The Blind Cafe, which brings the blind and sighted together for a night of food and entertainment in a pitch dark dining hall.

  Sports broadcasting giant ESPN may be taking over the entire second floor of the Jesse H. Jones Communications Center Building B to house studios for its $300 million Longhorn network, said College of Communications Dean Roderick Hart.

The latest annual update to America’s favorite murder simulator presents many enemies to the player: Tropas in Cuba, Vietcongs in Vietnam and Russians in the Arctic. But Treyarch, which previously developed “Call of Duty: World at War,” remain the greatest enemy of all. After playing through a campaign filled with unreliable team AI, getting stuck because of misdirection and facing endless swarms of Vietnamese troops that don’t stop until you perform a non-indicated action, it will be Treyarch’s name that you curse above all others.

It’s the end of an era for Austin City Limits. Music fans and country singer Lyle Lovett met for the final taping Monday at Studio 6A on campus, the home of the longest-running music show for the past 36 years.

In a Nintendo press bus, with Donkey Kong’s and Mario’s faces painted on the sides, Warren Spector waits patiently.