Just to Rub It In, Here’s More Video of That Aliens Game You Never Got to Play

Canceled four years ago, Aliens: Crucible was supposed to be an Aliens role-playing game, which always struck me as kind of weird. The film didn’t seem like it would translate well to an RPG; hell, it didn’t translate well to a shooter. Hey-oooooo … But material from Obsidian’s development of the game, which ended in…

Lay’s Chicken and Waffles, Sriracha and Cheesy Garlic Bread Potato Chips: The Snacktaku Review

Last summer Frito-Lay tapped into the power of social media to give fans of the company’s signature potato chip brand a chance to choose the next exciting flavor to grace store shelves. Millions of flavor combinations were submitted. Some, like Spinach and Sour Cream, were relatively uninteresting. Others, like my own Ground Glass and Your…

In A Game About Riots, Which Side Do You Pick—Cop Or Rioter?

The world is in no shortage of riots: it was only a matter of time before someone made a game on the subject, right? Enter RIOT, for iOS and Android. According to the game’s Indiegogo page, RIOT is a “detailed and polished simulator based on the actions of real riots happening around the world.” As…

Far Cry 3‘s Latest Update Takes A Cue From Modders

About a month ago, I started playing Far Cry 3 with this excellent mod compilation, which re-imagined the game as a sort of “New Game Plus” sort of deal. One of the best features was that after taking an outpost, I’d have the opportunity to leave it for the pirates, which keep the map “hostile,”…

Harmonix’s Rock Band series has rolled out new songs every week for five years. But, sadly, the music stops this April

Celebrating double year-over-year profits, G5 Games puts 25 of its best iOS and Android games on sale

The Case Of The Disappearing Kickstarter

It’s the biggest fear of anyone who spends $10 or $50 to help fund a new game. You see a cool-looking game on Kickstarter or some other website where creative people can ask fans to help pay for their projects. You think it sounds awesome. You give them your money, maybe in exchange for some…

What Happens When You Accuse Someone Of Attempting Date Rape In Guild Wars 2

Just because it’s a video game doesn’t mean scenes won’t play out like they do in real life. In a post over at Keep It Up, a curious role-playing scenario from Guild Wars 2 is detailed: one where a character named Sylvia saw a human male giving a single drink to a female character—only to…

Totilo and Crecente (yeah, that guy!) discuss the next PlayStation on the latest episode of the Bonus Round

ChefVille ‘Melt Their Hearts’ Quests: Everything You Need to Know

As with the launch of the Oyster Bar in ChefVille, another quest series has been released to go along with the Truffle Cooking Station. If you’ve yet to receive these quests in your game, you might have to wait a few more days (or even weeks) to receive them, but for everyone else, we’re here…

Naughty Dog Made “Some Stupid Mistakes” Moving from PS2 to PS3 But Feel Ready for PS4

The guys responsible for Nathan Drake’s adventures have made some of the PlayStation 3’s best games. But the excellence of Naughty Dog’s Uncharted franchise came after a lot of hard lessons. Just as a probable reveal for the next PlayStation looms, a new interview on Eurogamer reveals that the development studio had a rough time…

Modders At Last Launch the “StarCraft MMO” Over Battle.Net [Updated]

Remember StarCraft Universe? The mod was called the “Starcraft MMO” that kicked up a brief fuss in 2011 but was smoothed out, eventually, with Blizzard’s blessings. Ryan Winzen, the project’s creative director, is happy to share news that SCU: Chronicles of Fate is now available, and will be going out over Battle.net. Originally called World…

Cowbell Hero Takes the Joke Way Too Far

I admire Digital Hero Games’ dedication. Over a decade after Christopher Walken and the cast of Saturday Night Live hilariously introduced the phrase “More cowbell” into the modern vernacular and years after the first cowbell-fueled parodies of Activision’s Guitar Hero franchise appeared on the internet, the developer released a full-fledged mobile game based on the…

The Pirate Bay Threatens to Sue for—Get This—Copyright Infringement

Yeah, I had to rub my eyeballs when I saw this report on TorrentFreak, too. Evidently a Finnish group set up an antipiracy site (above) by ripping off The Pirate Bay’s symbols and site code. TPB took the bait, threatening to sue if the site didn’t stop using its symbols. The Pirate Bay is the…

Playing Dance Dance Revolution on Your iPhone Isn’t Exactly Dancing, Now Is It?

I’m all about seeing my favorite franchises represented in the mobile gaming space, but Dance Dance Revolution seems like a series best left to controllers that won’t shatter if you stomp on them. Maybe Dance Dance Revolution: Dance Wars will prove me wrong. The iTunes reviewers seem to approve of the new free-to-play game from…

Report: Police Want To Know If Sandy Hook Shooter Was ‘Emulating’ A Video Game

The Hartford Courant has published a long profile of Adam Lanza, the 20-year-old who shot and killed 27 people at Sandy Hook Elementary last December. One particularly interesting tidbit: Lanza owned “thousands of dollars worth” of violent video games (no word on which ones), and police are looking into whether the shooter was “emulating” a…

Nine More Surprising Hours With Assassin’s Creed III

I admit that I’ve had my doubts about Assassin’s Creed III in the three months since I had last played it. I had my doubts that the game, buggy and rough-edged as it was, deserved the very positive review I gave it last October. I had my doubts when my colleagues Luke and Kirk, representing…

Assassin’s Creed Liberation beat out Halo 4 and, uh, Assassin’s Creed 3 to win the WGA Videogame Writing Award. Awkward?

It’s Super Mario As An Endless Runner, With Rabbits.

If Nintendo made games for mobile phones, an endless running Super Mario platformer would be a no-brainer. Since Nintendo does not make games for mobile phones, HeiGames is making Super Bunny Land, which is close enough. Don’t worry Nintendo, we’ve got this. That’s the message indie developers are sending with games like Banana Kong and…

Bungie’s New Destiny is Coming Soon. This is What We Know So Far.

Bungie lifted the curtain yesterday on its new game, Destiny, a sci-fi “shared-world shooter” that once again pits humanity against a grave extraterrestrial threat. It’s coming later this next year for PS3 and Xbox 360. Kotaku‘s Tina Amini traveled to Seattle to see what the studio had to say about its new Destiny with Activision.…