This Xbox 360 Batman Arkham Origins Boxart Is Most Unexpected

Are you excited about the newly-announced Batman: Arkham Origins? It’s ok if you were on the fence. But surely this boxart for the Xbox 360 version can win you over? This is a real listing at Wal-Mart. They’ll probably change it soon. [UPDATE: And they just did.]

Apple Bans Upcoming Issue Of Comic For Featuring Gay Sex

Tomorrow’s Saga #12—the latest issue of Brian K. Vaughan and Fiona Staples’ critically acclaimed series—won’t be available for purchase via comics-reading apps on the iPad or iPhone, because it contains images of gay sex. That means that folks who buy and read the sci-fi adventure drama via apps like Comixology won’t be able to do…

Mass Effect: Pinnacle Station Micro-Review: A Curious Experiment

This post was originally published on Kotaku on August 28, 2009. To celebrate Mass Effect week, we’re bumping it up! What if Mass Effect was multiplayer? What if there was a way to get a taste of that, even if it was just in a solo mode? Now, strangely, there is. Mass Effect: Pinnacle Station…

Mr. Runner Was Wonderful. Mr. Runner 2 Looks Wonderfully Insane.

The original Mr. Runner is a lovely little bite-sized mobile platformer that’s been downloaded some five million times. Due out in on April 24, Mr. Runner 2: The Masks doesn’t care what Mr. Runner did, it does what it wants. It’ll cut you. With awesome. For reference, here is the original Mr. Runner: And here…

Here’s How You Eat All the Pellets in Snake and ‘Win’ the Game

In real time, this playthrough takes 13 minutes, 17 seconds. Sped up in the .gif above, it’s 2:06. It’s the amazing solution to a version of Snake, a genre of casual game going back almost 40 years, so old its original form is all but lost to memory. This .gif hit a Russian message board…

Where The First Mass Effect Failed, And Succeeded, According To Its Head Writer

Drew Karpyshyn was there at the beginning of Mass Effect, but he still hasn’t played the end. He was lead writer on the first two games in the series, but has yet to see the third game through to its conclusion. He knows about the the controversy, about the cupcakes and the Extended Cut. But…

Cancer, The Video Game

Before I sit, Josh Larson is careful to make one thing clear: “This is a game about Ryan and his wife’s four-year-old son, who was diagnosed with terminal cancer two and a half years ago,” he explains. And then this: “He’s still alive.” I look around; Ryan Green has already slipped out of the room.…

Hackers Find A Way To Download Games For Free on Ubisoft’s uPlay [UPDATE]

Last night, (now-removed) footage of Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon broke out. It’s likely the work of Russian hackers who found a way to trick the uPlay game launcher into thinking that they already own certain games according to Eurogamer—even if, in this case, the game isn’t out yet. The exploit allows users to download…

Game Developer Magazine—arguably the leading publication for people for making interactive entertainment—will nolonger be printing physical copies of the magazine. The last issue will be printed in July. Best wishes to all those affected by this decision.

The Many Memes, References and Homages of Guacamelee!

To say that the game Guacamelee! contains a few references would be a massive understatement — The game is absolutely brimming with them. While playing the game for review (which should be coming soon) I kept track of whatever hat-tips, homages, and internet memes that I could find in Guacamelee!. Most of them should be…

To no one’s surprise (including Peter Moore’s), Electronic Arts was declared “Worst Company in America” for a second straight year in an online poll at Consumerist.com. EA defeated Bank of America for the (dis)honor. Image by ‘Shop Contest all-star Arniejolt

Tearaway—the super-cute papercraft game being made by the creators of LittleBigPlanet—will be coming out on October 22nd for PS Vita

I Lost My Mass Effect Save, So I Gave Up On Finishing The Series

I used to feel like a Mass Effect fan. Like part of that community that gushed about their crush on Garrus, or commiserated over those lengthy elevator rides. I used to talk strategies and relationships and dialogue tree options with fellow fans, scrutinizing decisions with one another and theorizing about what would happen next. Even…

It’s Almost a Pity This Unique and Colorful Puzzle Game Is Free

I’ve always been a big fan of the color samples in the house paint section of Home Depot. Those unassuming sheets of paper, festooned with color gradients, introduced me to a world that was more than simple black and white — a world with 50 shades of grey, several dozen oranges and more green than…

Want to play Lost Planet 3? You’re going to have to wait a while longer, as the sci-fi shooter’s release moves from June 25 to August 27 in North America and to August 30 in Europe from a June 28th date.

Batman: Arkham Origins Is Coming This Fall

The next Batman game is called Batman: Arkham Origins, and it’ll be out October 25 for PS3, Xbox 360, Wii U, and PC. It’s a prequel to Arkham Asylum and Arkham City Warner Bros. Montreal is making the game, taking the mantle from Rocksteady Studios, the developer behind the critically-acclaimed first two. You can see…

Spring has sprung (for some). Let’s talk sunshine! Go join the voices talking about video games and life in Talk Amongst Yourselves, our reader-written blog.

French Court Says Prisoner Can’t Have a PS3, but Could Use Xbox 360

The latest Xbox 360 exclusive? French prisons. An inmate recently lost his appeal to have his PlayStation 3, and the privilege of playing it, restored to him, and it seems the PS3’s on-board WiFi connection is the problem. Good ol’ Xbox 360, remember, didn’t have that feature on the Elite or the Arcade models. According…

Turns out Armature Studio—the development house made up of ex-Retro folks who worked on Metroid Prime—was working on a Mega Man first-person shooter for Capcom. It was cancelled in 2010. Polygon‘s got the full story

Iron Man 3 Comes Out Next Month. You Can Play Iron Man IV Right Now.

Aspreviously proven, the huge environment of Grand Theft Auto IV’s Liberty City is a perfect playground for billionaire industrialist Tony Stark. Now GTA modder supreme H1Vltg3 teams with JulioNIB to create the ultimate Iron Man mod, complete with multiple suits of armor, a custom interface, and the ability to play as Stan “The Man” Lee,…