For a game that says it'll make your eyeballs work better, Ultimeyes isn't exactly a work of art. It's a work of science, though, one that presents a series of eye-training challenges in game-like form. After playing it a few times this week, I feel like it might actually work. » 4/18/14 5:30pm Friday 5:30pm

Life Goes On embraces death in a way that most games don't. Sure, lots of platformers embrace death in the sense that they know that landing the perfect jump will first require a lot of trial and error, but few make you intentionally kill yourself to get across from point A to point B. » 4/17/14 11:00am Thursday 11:00am

The second, final episode of the point & click adventure game Broken Sword 5: The Serpent's Curse goes live today on Steam and GOG.com, developer Revolution Software announced. Just in time for Easter, we can finally wrap up the adventures of George and Nico, this time in Spanish Catalonia and Iraq. » 4/16/14 10:00am Wednesday 10:00am

Finding excuses when we lose online is something we all sometimes do. It can be frustrating, after all. Tutorial Central collected a fair amount of StarCraft II-related ones, but most of them would apply to any competitive game. » 4/15/14 7:20am Tuesday 7:20am

This must be one of the most creative StarCraft II mods out there. Fast-paced ice hockey with StarCraft characters and abilities, made entirely with the game's map editor. » 4/10/14 7:20am 4/10/14 7:20am

Have you noticed all the small-scale sci-fi strategy games these days? No complaints here, given how good the spaceship-survival game FTL is and how well the minimalist space-station-building Rymdkapsel turned out. There's Double Fine's Spacebase DF9, too. Next? Habitat, a game about making space stations from space… » 4/08/14 4:30pm 4/08/14 4:30pm

"It was important to us that the game feels as grounded in reality as much as possible", says Dead Crusade's creative director Scott Petty, moments before a trailer shows you hacking the arms off a crowd of medieval zombies. » 4/06/14 11:30pm 4/06/14 11:30pm

This five-minute short, released by Bethesda today, tells you absolutely nothing about The Elder Scrolls Online, which is officially out today for PC and Mac. » 4/04/14 9:31am 4/04/14 9:31am

Telltale Games has released the spoiler-filled trailer for A Crooked Mile, episode three of The Wolf Among Us adventure game, and man does it make me want to stop writing this and play episode two. » 4/01/14 3:11pm 4/01/14 3:11pm

I watched this guy eat bread for ten minutes. Then I tried to jump on his head, and was thrown into nothingness. » 3/31/14 7:30pm 3/31/14 7:30pm

Meet Rande. He's a level 5 Khajiit Nightblade named after my dead cat. He'll be my representative in the world of Tamriel as I spend the next several weeks playing The Elder Scrolls Online for review. » 3/31/14 9:11am 3/31/14 9:11am

Here's one well-thought-out Diablo III fan piece by DevaintART artist 6kart, with Deckard Cain, Leah and Diablo himself in the background. After Diablo III's storyline, I don't think it was possible to care about Leah, but this changes things up. » 3/28/14 8:30am 3/28/14 8:30am

Saying they have a "Stunning Dystopian Sci-Fi Plot" might be a bit much, but I can forgive Fictiorama Studios for the hyperbole since their upcoming adventure game looks really cool. » 3/27/14 11:00pm 3/27/14 11:00pm

Ashen Rift isn't about surviving a mysterious apocalypse. It's about what the hell you do with yourself ten years after you've survived. » 3/27/14 12:30pm 3/27/14 12:30pm

In honor of tonight's launch of Diablo III: Reaper of Souls, the fine folks at Carbot Animation have delivered their own interpretation of the expansion's dark, doom-filled opening cinematic. It's so good. » 3/24/14 4:00pm 3/24/14 4:00pm