Smash, Burn, Hack and Duck Your Way Through This Week in Gaming Apps

I finally caved and picked up a new full-sized iPad this week, so it stands to reason that this Week in Gaming Apps be bigger and higher resolution than the last, with a plug that doesn’t fit any other the ones that came before it. I’ve only had the iPad 4 since Monday, and I’ve…

Look At How Cool You Get To Dress In The Next Shin Megami Tensei

Demons, mature themes, samurai—blah, blah, blah. That stuff is important, but guys, look. Look at the things you get to wear in Shin Megami Tensei IV. That scarf. That jacket. There’s probably more; this gameplay footage by SCRAWLfx is short. Either way, I’m excited. Personalization is important! The world might be rather desolate in this…

Nickels, Dimes, and Quarters

The video game industry is just that. An industry. Which means that it exists in a capitalistic world. You know, a free market. A place where you’re welcome to spend your money on whatever you please… or to refrain from spending that money. Those companies that put these products out? They’re for profit businesses. They…

This Real-Life Version Of Black Ops 2 Reminds Me How Violent Black Ops 2 Is

It can be easy to become desensitized to Call of Duty‘s brand of realistic-yet-cartoonish violence. As motion-captured video-game dudes blow each other away over and over again, whatever I’d normally feel at watching that kind of carnage melts away. I see the game for what it is, and it stops having an impact. Videos like…

Just what Super Hexagon always needed: a dubstep xXx420XxX_NoScope trailer.

This Renegade Shepard Probably Beats Your Renegade Shepard

Sterling Archer, the star behind the animated spy sitcom airing on the FX network (also called Archer!), is hands down one of the biggest jerks on TV. We’re talking like, someone so awful that he makes Walter White from Breaking Bad look like a nice, upstanding guy. He’s rude. He’s self-centered. He’s a womanizer. He’s…

This Is About As Close To The Original Final Fantasy As You Can Get Today

When I was a young whelp, back when my writing career involved pictures of dragons and a black-and-white spiral notebook, I spent a lot of time playing the first Final Fantasy It was one of the toughest games I owned, and I loved it not just because it was pretty, and engrossing, and creative, but…

Crytek Head: So Far, Crysis 3 Is Our Masterpiece

Crytek head Cevat Yerli has come out in defense of his studio’s latest game, Crysis 3. In an interview with Gamasutra, Yerli says that the game is “so far, our masterpiece,” and that he feels it’s better than both Crysis 2 and the original Crysis in all aspects. He blames the game’s tepid reception on…

Insanely popular multiplayer battle arena game League of Legends is now available in delicious Mac flavor

British celeb Charlie Brooker says the PS4 controller is just like your mom.

Now There’s A Way To Lose Weight by Playing Skyrim

If your guess was “play Skyrim while on a treadmill”—yes, sort of. The device you see in the video above is called the Omni, and it’s a virtual reality/treadmill hybrid that allows you to walk and look around naturally in a game. Well, as natural as “walking in place in a contraption while wearing glasses”…

ChefVille ‘And the Date Goes On’ Quests: Everything You Need to Know

While time may soon run out on the First Date event in ChefVille, Zynga just couldn’t help itself. The ChefVille team has released another new quest series that needs to be completed within the event’s remaining three days. While the quests are voluntary, you can earn some additional rewards by completing them, so we’re here…

This is What the Unreal Engine 4 Can Do For Skeletons, Fedoras, and a Game That’s $300,000 Short

Project Awakened is supposed to be a big open-world action game that lets you play as any super-hero you could dream up. But it’s $300,000 short of its Kickstarter goal with just five days to go. That’s probably why we now get to see a glimpse of what the next-gen Unreal Engine 4 could do…

Beyond: Two Souls Is Coming October 8th, Just Got Dafoe’d

Sony has just revealed that Beyond: Two Souls will be bringing its innumerable polygons to PS3 on October 8th. The announcement eschews any mention of PS4, but does have some extra flavor. Dafoe flavor. Yes, the rumor that Willem Dafoe is part of Quantic Dream’s ambitious title is true, despite David Cage’s denial of the…

Tons of Games Are Coming Out This Month So You Want This $150

March is shaping up to be one of the biggest months in gaming in recent memory. Bioshock Infinite? Check. Tomb Raider? Check. Even more Walking Dead? You get it. Now you just have to, you know, buy the games and shut yourself up in your room until April. At least it’ll be warm when you…

A Fascinating Point-And-Click Adventure Bogged Down By Crap

Cognition is a frustrating game to play. Not just because the fundamentals are frustrating—and they are frustrating—but because there’s so much good stuff buried underneath them. I love the tone, the music, the characters. I just can’t get past how clunky it all feels. Let’s start from the beginning: Cognition is a point-and-click episodic adventure…

This Is Why We Need More Black People Making Video Games

When I traded correspondence with writer David Brothers last week, I made the argument that video games needs its equivalent to Blazing Saddles. This time, I’m saying that it could use its own version of Milestone Media, the groundbreaking comics company started by a crew of black professionals. In the previous piece, we spent much…

After A Tease Like This, Square Enix Had Sure As Hell Better Release Bravely Default In The West

Japanese developer/publisher/dream-ruiner Square Enix has become rather infamous for launching teasers and countdown clocks that get fans’ hopes wayyy up, only to crush them later. Social games without music. Mobile games that only exist to take your money. That sort of thing. So when I saw this message on the official Twitter account for Bravely…

This Week’s iPad Charts: Buzz Lightyear Versus Predator

A battle of truly intergalactic proportions wages in this week’s paid iPad app charts, as Disney’s newly-released Toy Story: Smash It! debuts in the top spot and AVP: Evolution claws its way towards the top of the food chain. It’s the movie crossover I’d love to see. The Toy Story film franchise is spectacular, but…

The Witcher 3 Looks Ready for the PS4 in These New Screenshots

CD Projekt Red told us they were making a new engine before they told us what it was being used for. Of course, it was pretty easy to guess that The Witcher 3 was the big mystery title that RedEngine 3 was going to power. And now we’re getting a look at the open-world that…