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Apple Blocks App That Alerts Users to American Military Drone Strikes

iPhone apps exist for all sorts of purposes: games and media to entertain, file viewers and creation programs for productivity, news for information on the world around you. To creator Josh Begley, Drone+—which lets people know about American UAV attacks—fits the bill for that last type of app. Nevertheless, Apple has rejected his creation from…

Here’s the First Look at Whore of the Orient, the Next Game from the Makers of L.A. Noire

Brendan McNamara’s most recent game had players exploring the seamy underbelly of an impressive, gleaming recreation of 1940s Los Angeles with L.A. Noire. The first glimpse at his next game—being produced with director George Miller’s film production firm KMM Interactive—the grime is all out in the open. Despite the fact that McNamara’s Team Bondi was…

White Actress Will Voice Assassin’s Creed‘s Black Heroine [Correction]

When Assassin’s Creed III made its stunning debut a few months ago, Ubisoft proudly noted that they were using an actor with Native American heritage to bring new lead character Connor Kenway/Ratohnhaké:ton to life. In the game, Connor’s parents were of British and Mohawk descent and the casting of a performer who himself is half-Blackfoot…

You Have To Run From Room to Room (In Real Life) To Play This Arcade Game

Imagine a Defender-style video game where you had to jog across the entire floor of a building to play it. No, wait; don’t imagine that. One Japanese-born game designer already did. And it’s pretty great. Based on drawings that Keita Takahashi came up with, the folks at Babycastles—who periodically put up exhibitions of beautiful and…

This Extraordinary Version of Ms. Pac-Man Fills an Entire Room.

It’s one thing for a video game to be called immersive when you’re staring at a single screen in one direction. But when you’re sitting in a room surrounded by power pellets and aggressive ghosts of Ms. Pac-Man, you feel like you’re living inside a game of the arcade classic. Shot at this past weekend’s…

This Hilarious Point-and-Click Game Blows You Up Three Times in One Minute

Do yourself a favor: play some levels before you read the help in McPixel You may not know what to do at first when the point-and-click game by indie developer Mikolaj ‘Sos’ Kaminski starts up. That’s okay. You’ll probably wind up triggering something very funny. Like kicking everyone in the junk. The humor in this…

Four Comics That Will Seduce You This Week

If you’re here in the Panel Discussion programming block, you might be a lapsed comics reader, trying to find a way back to the JLA Satellite. Or you might someone killing time until you pick up your weekly Wednesday pull list. Or maybe you’ve said goodbye to dozens of longboxes to embrace the promise of…

Superman’s Match.com Profile Is Online Dating Kryptonite. What the Heck Is Wonder Woman Thinking?

I like Superman a lot. He gets a lot of flack for being a boring, all-powerful boy scout. But I feel like he’s a great, complex superhero character in the right hands. But, geez, if I saw his Match.com profile, I wouldn’t date him. All of nerddom has been atwitter over the announcement that Superman…

A New Dark Knight Returns Trailer Means We’re In For a Show, Kids

It’s a big deal when Batman disappears. It’s a bigger deal when he comes back. If you saw this summer’s The Dark Knight Rises, then the preview of the upcoming Dark Knight Returns animated movie above might feel a little familiar. Christopher Nolan’s film featured a beat-for-beat recreation of this iconic scene from Frank Miller’s…

When I Learned to Love Jack Kirby

Jack Kirby would have turned 95 today. So I guess now’s as good a time as any to say that I didn’t get him at first. The splayed, squared hands and gaping mouths that served as a signature of his style seemed frantic and feverish. They weren’t the smooth, Greco-Roman sculptures that first inspired wonder…

Listen to Assassin’s Creed 3‘s creative director explain the game’s naval combat in this new trailer.

Gears of War: Judgment Finally Lets Human Soldiers Settle Some Grudges in Its New Free-for-All Mode

Sure, the gross, gruff Locust in the Gears of War games have always been squishy and fun to kill. Multiplayer matches in Epic’s successful shooter series have generally pit the subterranean enemies against humanity’s COG soldiers. But sometimes you just get the urge to give Cole Train an lethal Lancer massage, if only to shut…

In the Guitar Hero That Never Got Made, People Can’t Even Remember Rock ‘n’ Roll

Quick question: does anyone remember the plot of Guitar Hero III? Does anyone remember if it had one? You might remember that Slash, Axl Rose and Bret Michaels showed up in the threequel, which was the first game in the franchise after it moved to Activision. But that’s about all that was memorable about Guitar…

15 Minutes of Lost Planet 3 Footage Introduce New Enemies and Cover Combat

Capcom’s trying out a few different things in Lost Planet 3, which is a prequel to the previous two games in their outer-space action series. The chunk of gameplay above comes from a live demo done at Gamescom 2012 and shows off some of the new Akrid creatures you’ll be battling, as well as the…

This Looper 8-Bit Game Trailer Shouldn’t Exist But I’m Glad It Does

As far as I know, there’s no video game tethered to Rian Johnson’s upcoming sci-fi thriller. That’s a shame, as Looper sports exactly the kind of fictional universe I’d like to expanded on in playable form. So, good for me then, that filmmaker Deepak Chetty did the next best thing by making a retro-styled trailer…

So, Tell Me About Yourself, Video Game

Video games need more “Call Me Ishmael.” That quote is one of the most famous opening lines in all of literature. Sure, its popularity is owed largely to being the first sentence in Herman Melville’s classic novel Moby Dick. But that introduction is also memorable because you’re learning about an important character from the very…

Here’s the Trailer for Mass Effect 3‘s Leviathan DLC

The long-awaited single-player add-on for BioWare’s sci-fi threequel gets an underwater preview in this teaser. Our own Kirk Hamilton enjoyed his hands-on time with the DLC. Everyone else gets to play Leviathan when it becomes available next week.

1313 Will Take You Down to Star Wars Hell

It’s always pretty clean and well-lit in Star Wars movies, isn’t it? Even a place as wretched as the Mos Eisley cantina seems like it wouldn’t have a problem passing a health code inspection. So, where does all the dirt go in the Skywalker-verse? Apparently, it’s all going into Star Wars 1313 The video above…

This New XCOM: Enemy Unknown Trailer Puts All the Pressure on You, Commander

Sure, lots of other games make you responsible for saving the world but this new “Casualties of War” teaser for XCOM: Enemy Unknown makes the stakes seem incredibly high and oddly personal. The Firaxis-developed successor to the beloved PC strategy game—which our Kate Cox was very impressed by when she played it—comes out in October.…