The legion of Firefly fans looking for new material in the universe have reason to rejoice today as Fox Digtial Entertainment and QMx Interactive announced plans for Firefly Online, the first officially licensed video game for the cult TV show and movie. The game is set to launch in Summer 2014 and will be available on iOS devises and the Android marketplace.

The game lets players take on the role of a ship captain, just like Captain Mal Reynolds from the show, where they will find a ship, hire a crew, and take on missions so they can keep flying. Players will also be able to customize their ship while they explore the “˜Verse, and will also be able to connect with other players using unique social features. There’s no price information on the game yet, so we’ll just have to wait and see if there will be a one-time price for it or if they will go with a monthly price or go with the freemium model of micro-transactions for in game items.

You can check out the official trailer for the game here below.

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I’m not a parent and I am, numerically speaking, an adult, so I reflexively stand in opposition to any initiative that looks to slap a big honkin label on the package of nearly all video games due to violent content. Now, this isn’t some diatribe about how violent games are completely benign; I agree with studies that say exposure to these games can desensitize kids and others to violence — in a world where we are already desensitized to so much, we really should be careful to avoid deepening the gash with the press of yet another dull blade. No, this isn’t that — this is a “diatribe” against government intervention for the sake of government intervention and pandering to family groups.

Before I go on with my opinion, let’s go over the facts: Congressmen Joe Baca (D-Cal) and Frank Wolf (R-VA) are proposing a bill, H.R. 4204 aka The Violence in Video Games Labeling Act. If passed, this legislation would require video game publishers to put a warning label on all games with a rating above the Early Childhood rating, so basically, nearly all games.

According to the Bill, the label would have to be “placed in a clear and conspicuous location on the packaging of the applicable video game.” This is what the label would read:

“WARNING: Exposure to violent video games has been linked to aggressive behavior.”

Today marks the release of the first episode of Dragon Age: Redemption, a new web series based on the popular BioWare video game series.

The series stars Felicia Day (The Guild) and Doug Jones (Hellboy) and is produced by Day’s own production company, Knight of Good. The series focuses on Tallis (Day), an elf working for the Qunari, one of the groups in the fictional world of Dragon Age. She is tasked to track down Saarebas (Jones) a renegade mage of the Qunari who has escaped prison. But why am I telling you about it when you should just be watching it yourself.

Continue reading to see the video now.

To say people were angry when Netflix announced even more price increases in July would be an outrageous understatement, to say the least.

But instead of people just complaining and moving on like we so often tend to do, the negative reaction was matched by significant losses. Netflix shares have dropped nearly 20% so far, and the company’s previous estimation of around 25 million subscribers by the end of the third quarter has now been lowered to 24 million, meaning at least a million people have already decided to bail on the service.

Instead of just leaving things be and see how they turn out, Netflix is making some more big changes (though none to prices, no worries).

Given that Universal Pictures recently denied us of another exciting Guillermo del Toro monster movie””the H.P. Lovecraft adaptation, At the Mountains of Madness“”it’s no great shock that the director has integrated a little Lovecraft inspiration into other projects of his.

For those who didn’t know, del Toro is a geek and a gamer at heart, and he’s been hard at work stepping into the realms of video games. He admittedly was clueless going in, but he’s learned a lot as production on the game he’s working on with THQ and Volition Inc., inSANE, has moved forward. And now del Toro shares that the game has a “Lovecraftian” quality to it, making it even more exciting than it once was.

Continue reading for more, and to see the super teaser trailer for inSANE you have not yet seen it.