There’s A Great Game Beneath Monster Monpiece‘s Awkward Anime Stroking

Update 5/28/2014: Monster Monpiece is finally out in North America (Europe gets it next week), and the sentiment in this Japanese preview still holds: It’s a great game, but damn that embarrassing girl-stroking mechanic. In PlayStation Vita game Monster Monpiece, players increase the powers of collectible cards by vigorously rubbing pictures of young women until…

My God, It’s Full Of Emoji

Sometimes in our workaday life, we get dragged down by the little things in life — the humdrum of it all. We often forget that there’s a sublime universe of limitless icons out there. So here’s something that might help: Step 1: open up Emoji.Zone. Blow it up to full screen. Step 2: Play some…

That leaked Battlefield: Hardline video is six months old and was for an internal company meeting, says EA exec Steve Papoutsis. The man in charge of Visceral Games also says that Hardline will be coming out this fall. More to come at E3.

14,000 People Are Watching Meat Cook Right Now

And now so are you. Arby’s never-ending crusade to get people to accept mayonnaise on a smoked brisket sandwich has culminated in this — a 13 hour live stream of a piece of seasoned meat inside of a smoker. While it took a visit to Arby’s test kitchen in Atlanta to convince me of the…

​Video Game Artwork That’s Just Happy to See You

When is a gun not just a gun? When it lives between a character’s legs and not in a holster, as seen in artwork from more than just a few video games. There’s a growing collection of not-so-subtle imagery over at Phallic Videogamery that shows how some video game artwork over the decades has fashioned…

What Today’s Biggest Mobile Games Need Is Ugly ’80s Box Art

Back in the ’80s, hardcore gamers loved the sort of simplistic fare that mobile gamers thrive on today. So why can’t the hardcore embrace popular mobile games? I’m guessing it’s the lack of almost completely unrelated painted cover art. Gaming humor palace Dorkly imagines a world where mobile games get the half-assed fantasy art they…

You Can Watch Sony’s E3 Conference In… A Movie Theater

Perhaps hoping to match last year’s crazy E3 drama, Sony is taking their 2014 presser to the silver screen. You’ll be able to watch the PlayStation press conference in movie theaters across the country. Yep, movie theaters. The presser, which will be on Monday, June 9 at 6pm Pacific, will be aired in 40-50 theaters…

Deep Castlevania Discounts, SteelSeries Gaming Gear, Huge PSN Update

Amazon’s Mayhem digital game sale continues, and today’s highlight deal is Castelvania: Lords of Shadow 2 for just $20. Of course, there are still over 1000 other games available, so be sure to browse the catalog for anything else you need to add to your collection. [Castlevania: Lords of Shadow 2 , $20] 360 and…

Tickets for PAX Prime are now on sale. Go get’em before they sell out in ten minutes.

State of Decay‘s New DLC Is Out This Week

Let’s see if combat boots and camouflage make surviving a zombie apocalypse any easier. Already previewed back in April, State of Decay‘s Lifeline expansion hits on May 30th, bringing with it a new location, character and objectives. It’ll cost $6.99.

Here’s the first bit of artwork from the next Hitman game. Sadly that’s all we’re gonna get for a while since developer IO Interactive also said that it won’t be showing the game at E3 next month. For the time being, read more about upcoming Hitman news here.

How You’re Going To Build Houses In The Sims 4

Another day, another reason to get excited (or terrified) for The Sims 4. This morning, Electronic Arts released a new trailer for the highly anticipated life simulating-video game that spells out how the house-building mechanics work: Basically, it sounds like they work the same way that the character-creation system does. That is to say, it…

You’ll Be Able To Play Dragon Quest VIII On iOS Soon

My old PlayStation 2 just became a casualty of apartment cleaning, so it’s delightful to see Dragon Quest VIII—one of the PS2’s best role-playing games—on the iTunes Store in New Zealand today. The New Zealand iTunes Store is typically used as a testbed for game releases on iPad and iPhone, and although the eighth DQ…