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…

If You Think Good Graphics Make Characters Worth Caring About, You’re Probably Insane

Last week, when the folks behind Killzone went on Jimmy Fallon’s late night show to talk PS4, they said something that stuck with me. In response to Fallon’s question about what the PS4’s impressive memory could do for developers, Guerilla Games boss Herman Hulst answered with a great deal of enthusiasm. He said it allows…

Oh Good, a Getting Bitten By a Venomous Snake Simulator

There has got to be a better way to obtain snake juice in order to produce antivenom than poking at them with your finger until they get angry enough to bite your face off. It’s right there in the name of this free frightening iPad game—Killer Snake. Not Fluffy Snake. Not Mr. Cuddly McTouch-Hims. Killer…

Metro: Last Light is out on May 14 and May 17 in North America and elsewhere, respectively. Keep your flashlights handy!

The New Accel World Episodes Are Little More Than Lighthearted Filler

Late last year, we took a look at Accel World, the sister series to Sword Art Online. But not all the episodes of the series aired on TV. Rather, two extra episodes were released as part of the collector’s editions of the two Accel World games: Accel World: Awakening of the Silver Wings and Accel…

This Must Be the Coolest University Graduation Ceremony on Earth

Think your graduation was cool? Maybe it was. Maybe it was totally gnarly. But, I’ll tell you what, I’m pretty damn sure Sailor Moon didn’t roll in and a red Pikmin didn’t stroll up on stage. Oh, and there probably wasn’t a large Wii Remote, nor was there a large Xperia phone. Call it a…

Solving The Ultimate Professor Layton Mystery: When, Exactly, Do the Games Take Place?

With the release of Professor Layton and the Azran Legacies this past Thursday in Japan, I’ve found myself thinking a lot about this series—perhaps too much. The Professor Layton games follow the titular Professor Hershel Layton, a professor of archaeology based in London who—like famed Dr. Henry Jones, Jr.—spends far more time solving ancient mysteries…