A Game Where You Have to Sacrifice Teammates Sounds Cool in Concept

Lost Dimension is a tactical RPG that initially caught my attention due to one of its biggest gameplay elements – the fact that in order to progress through the game, you have to eliminate one of your teammates. Reading the description of how you have to vote with your teammates on who is to be…

McDonald’s Is Releasing a Purple Potato Shake in Japan

This fall, McDonald’s is rolling out a special sweet potato shake for a limited time. It’s purple! The flavor is “murasaki imo” (紫いも), which means “purple sweet potato” in English. Note that this is not a yam! It is very much a fall food. According to website Entabe, the purple shake will go on sale…

KFC Made an Amazing Fried Chicken Keyboard

Woah. That’s just…woah. But as the little Colonel Sanders character notes, it seems hard to use. If that wasn’t enough (it isn’t, apparently), there is also also fried chicken mouse. And a fried chicken USB stick. Sadly, these aren’t for sale… yet. They are part of a KFC promotion in Japan, which is asking Twitter…

Space Strategy, It’s Nice To Have You Back

Yes, there is a lot of developer diary blah blah blah going on in this video, but there is also a lot of raw, direct footage of Ancient Space’sgameplay in action. And it looks pretty cool. One weird thing I noticed is that so much of their footage makes the game look 2D. It’s only…

What YouTube Commenters Think Of Destiny

Grab a friend, grab some popcorn, because it’s time for some YouTube-branded reactions to Bungie’s soon-to-be-released shared-world shooter, Destiny. And it’s good. You can always tell how much time and thought went into these reactions by their countless spelling errors. But, really, that just makes these impressions of YouTube commenters that much better. Just remember,…

The Legendary Skylanders Return To Toys’R’Us

Hey kids, want the same exact toys in black and gold? The Toys’R’Us legendary Skylanders line continues with next month’s Trap Team, with a pair of special toys guaranteed to be warming shelves a month or two after launch. Two years ago I might have told parents and fans to make a beeline for Toys’R’Us…

You Just Can’t Trust Puzzle Games Anymore

I saw two inventive, perception-centric games at PAX last week that got me thinking about how much we take for granted when playing games in a first-person perspective. In one of them, you’re playing as someone who think he’s a god. In the other, you’re getting yelled at by one. Both of them challenge you…

Destiny Doesn’t Offer Major Feature, So Fans Make It Themselves

No random matchmaking for endgame raids in Bungie’s new “shared world” shooter Destiny? No problem, say these fans. They’ll just make their own. Well, OK, kind of a problem, actually. Despite there being an established precedent for random matchmaking—that is, a game automatically sorting you into a group of other players—and pick-up groups in (some)…

​What Are You Playing This September?

Do you remember? Our hearts were ringing in the key that our souls were singing, as we played some fun games in the night… It’s September, which means it’s almost time for the fall video game rush. There’s some big stuff coming out, but there’s already a ton to play today. I thought I’d do…

Calories You’ll Burn by Playing a Video Game for One Hour This probably won’t come as a surprise to anyone, but playing games doesn’t use that much energy. A study in the Journal of Pediatrics found that adults playing sedentary games (the study used Disney’s Extreme Skate Adventure) only burn 10% more calories than people…