Two Quotes That Help Warren Spector Assess Where He’s At Right Now

Legendary game designer Warren Spector was talking at the DICE convention in Las Vegas today, but didn’t want to talk about his departure from Disney and the shuttering of his studio. He wanted to talk about the “graying of gaming” or at least about his journey though gaming. But the elephant is in the room,…

You Can Visit Heaven with Mega Man, Sam Fisher and Brain Age in This Week’s Nintendo Download

Comparatively speaking, it’s not that often that you get to engage in wanton bloodshed in a game released for Nintendo platforms. (Well, you can creatively interpret Mario’s adventures in an ultra-violent way, if you wanted.) So, The Fist of the North Star: Ken’s Rage 2—where you can kick guys to bloody bits—is a departure from…

Robie Taught Me a Thing or Two About Brick-Breaking

As I played through the first few levels of Viral’s new Facebook brick-breaking game, Robie, I was annoyed by the game’s assumption that there was anything about the genre I was unaware of that would require interrupting my play for a tutorial. Then I learned how to bend the ball to my will. There must…

Curious about the life of an artist? Check out Art Game, the latest from Pippin Barr, the guy who made Epic Sax Game

Demons, High Schools, And Sex: Just Another Day At Atlus Games

Sex sells. Except when it doesn’t. Two years ago, when the people at Atlus tried to convince big-box stores to distribute their newest game, Catherine, they found that companies like Walmart and Target weren’t interested in selling sex. Store reps were turned off by the game’s box art, which features a shirtless man trapped inside…

It seems that we’re collectively slacking on Halo 4, so 343 Industries dropped hints on Easter eggs nobody has found.

FarmVille 2 Gothic Revival Workshop Recipes: Everything You Need to Know

Our look at the new Gothic Revival theme in FarmVille 2 continues with a complete guide to the Crafting Workshop recipes that have also been released in this theme. There are three new recipes in all, some of which will be required if you’d like to finish the game’s Florist Table feature. You do want…

EA’s incredibly popular (and profitable) free mobile game The Simpson’s: Tapped Out is finally available for Android

The Next Assassin’s Creed Will Get A Total Overhaul: New Character, New Time Period, Coming Next Fiscal Year

Ubisoft announced that a new Assassin’s Creed game featuring a new hero and time period will be coming in fiscal year 2014, which could be anywhere from this October to next September April 1, 2013 to March 31, 2014. Ubisoft president Yves Guillemot promised a major leap forward for the Assassin’s Creed franchise and indicated…

Zombies Look Really Ugly In The Trailer For The Walking Dead‘s Shooter

This is the first official trailer for The Walking Dead: Survival Instinct, aka that Walking Dead shooter that has absolutely nothing to do with the Walking Dead games that everyone loves. Survival Instinct is out March 19 for Xbox 360, PS3, and PC. March 26 for Wii U. What do you think? Any interest?

Watch Gabe Newell’s DICE Keynote Live Right Here [UPDATE: It’s Over]

Valve boss Gabe Newell is speaking at the D.I.C.E. show in Las Vegas today, and you can watch the livestream right here. The respected developer almost always has smart and interesting things to say, so expect an entertaining speech. Will he talk about Steam boxes? Movie plans? Ricochet 2? Let’s see. The speech starts at…

Rayman Legends No Longer a Wii U Exclusive; PS3 and Xbox 360 Versions Also Coming in September

There’s good news and bad news, Rayman fans. First, the bad news: Rayman Legends—the follow-up to the fun, much-praised Rayman Origins—has been delayed until this September, about six months after its original February 26th release date. The good news is that PS3 and Xbox 360 owners will also be getting their own versions of the…

The Best Thing About This Dragon Breeding Game is Definitely the Vomit

It’s not the hand-animated visuals, crafted by artists whose resumes include My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic and Atomic Betty. It’s not the challenge of matching each dragon with their favorite treasures, collecting and combining items to create more potent pieces. No, it’s definitely the vomiting, followed closely by the rainbow pooping. East Side Games’…

The Wikipad Gaming Tablet Is Finally Coming Out. And It’ll Be Cheaper.

Originally, the Wikipad—an Android tablet with a custom controller dock—was supposed to come out last Halloween. But October 31st came and went with no Wikipads in any store anywhere. But the hybrid portable is alive and will be showing up in a smaller, less expensive form this spring. The Wikipad coming in a few months…

Don’t Call BioWare’s Next Sci-Fi Game Mass Effect 4

Mass Effect 3 is well behind us and fans already know that that an upcoming game set in Bioware’s far-future universe is in development at BioWare Montreal’s studio. That game doesn’t have a name yet. But, the dev studio’s representatives really don’t want you to refer to it as Mass Effect 4 [If you haven’t…

I Wish I Were Good At Video Games So I Could Be Cool Like People In 90s Movies

Having Mad Skills is a huge part of the video game culture mythos. Do you remember the future promised to us in the 1990s, where every TV show had a kid just like you “going in the game,” crowned with a giant jutting VR helmet? Remember all the kids in action kneepads, waving power-gloved fingers,…

This Week’s Windows Phone Charts: I Need Your Skulls

What does it take to unseat Angry Birds from the top of the Windows Phone game charts? How about something smart, sexy and exclusive? Skulls of the Shogun‘s stylish real-time strategy cuts a wide swath through this week’s top ten list. An exclusive iOS game is just another iOS game. An exclusive Android game is…

Stargate SG-1: Unleashed Seeks to Revive SG-1 As An Interactive Adventure

From the people who brought you Stargate Golf Teal’c’s Revenge, here’s a teaser trailer for Stargate SG-1: Unleashed. Calling itself an “Interactive Adventure”, the game was first revealed (sort of) last November by a pair of tweets from former Stargate: SG-1 actors Amanda Tapping and Michael Shanks (via SGGamingInfo): Stargate SG-1: Unleashed is due “soon”…

Borderlands Legends is Better (and Cheaper) Than Ever Before

When making a mobile spin-off of a major console/PC game, one neat thing to include would be some equivalent of the most popular features of the franchise proper. There were no gun loot drops in Borderlands Legends for the iPhone and iPad. Now there are. Part strategy, part shooter and part action RPG, Borderlands Legends‘…

Here Are The Top 30 Games Japanese Gamers Are Looking Forward To In 2013

2013 is only 1/12th over. With 11 months left and new console news on the horizon, Weekly Famitsu asked its readers what games they were looking forward to for this year. Here’s a list of the top 30 anticipated upcoming games for 2013 (note: All publishers and release dates are for Japanese release versions): 30…