Sweet Pixel Graphics Can’t Save This Game from Collectible Card Banality

It takes something special to get me invested in one of the wave of mobile collectible card games seeking to ride on the overwhelming success of Rage of Bahamut—it took Transformers to get me to appreciate the appeal of the genre. With its eye-catching pixelated style, DeNA’s D.O.T. Defenders of Texel threatened to be the…

6 GIFS of Raiden Looking Cool in Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance

Mr. Gergő Vas is at it again, taking a slick new gaming trailer and boiling it down to several stellar GIFs. His subject today is the newest trailer for next month’s Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance Show us some GIFs, Gergő! Here’s the full trailer. The game will be out on February 19 for the PS3…

Bake Shop Drop is Not a Game to Play If You’re Counting Calories

A drop-based matching game recently launched on Facebook from Broken Bulb Game Studios, Bake Shop Drop is an addictive little game that has me quite conflicted—do I play another round, or run to the store for cupcakes? The pieces are frosted cake slices, sprinkled doughnuts, chocolate chip cookies and red velvet cupcakes. The power-ups are…

The Video Games That Showed Up When I Least Expected Them

A controller gets put down. A disc gets shelved next to dozens of others just like it. But, sometimes, the game lingers. It creeps into your sleep and live on in the backs of your eyelids, demanding ever more from you. Here’s an example: the one night that the crazy nocturnal zombies from Alan Wake…

Superhero fighting game Injustice: Gods Among Us is out April 16, Warner Brothers just announced. 360, PS3, Wii U.

This Game’s Special Edition Comes With A Statue Of A Bikini-Clad, Severed Female Torso

If you are a severed torso fetishist or serial killer, you will undoubtedly be ecstatic to know that one special edition of Dead Island: Riptide comes with the above statue. Fans of bloody female torsos clad in UK flag bikinis can go out and pre-order the “Zombie Bait” edition of Deep Silver’s upcoming open-world action…

The Vita port of Edmund McMillen’s demonic roguelike The Binding of Isaac might look like this. [Twitter]

After 128 Days In Jail, Arma III Developers Finally Get To Go Home

Two game developers from Czech Republic-based Bohemia Interactive (Arma III), who were jailed in Greece for the past 218 days, will finally be able to go home, according to Czech media reports translated on a site dedicated to the men’s release. Ivan Buchta and Martin Pezlar had been facing up to 20 years in prison…

Original Devil May Cry Creator Sticks Up For the New DmC

Game developer Hideki Kamiya of Platinum Games and recent Bayonetta fame will field just about any question on Twitter, whether he’s well-versed on a topic or not. Something he knows a ton about? Devil May Cry games. Kamiya was the director on the original Devil May Cry back in 2001 and a very good authority…

This Week’s iPhone Charts: The Minecraft Connection

Welcome to the all-new, all-improved, all much simpler formatted as to not kill myself every morning weekly app rankings. The ponderous and sloppy image-heavy format has been exchanged for a tasteful table, which makes it much easier to notice things like Minecraft proper and a 2D Minecraft “homage” holding both number two spots in the…

The World’s Largest Snowball Fight Saw Over 5,000 People Engage In Deadly Combat

Last weekend, 5,834 people convened in Seattle for the world’s largest snowball fight. Set amongst a battlefield of 160,000 tonnes of snow, it doesn’t look like any snowball fight I’ve ever been in. It looks like the beginning of Terminator 2. Only with less skulls. World’s Largest Snowball Fight – Contour Cameras – Snow Day…

Why Final Fantasy VI‘s Kefka is the Best Video Game Villain of All Time

From Bowser and Dr. Robotnik to M. Bison and Dr. Wiley, gaming has had many iconic villains. But as well known as those villains are, some of the best villains are found in the Final Fantasy series. When you think of Final Fantasy villains, who immediately comes to mind? If you were playing games in…

Zone of the Enders Is Pretty in Pink

This March, a new Zone of the Enders figure will be released, and perhaps will find a spot on your desk. Z.O.E., of course, is the sci-fi mecha series from Metal Gear creator Hideo Kojima. The figure is of Z.O.E. mecha Ardjet, which is piloted by Ken Marinaris from Z.O.E.: The 2nd Runner It’s priced…

Nintendo’s Satoru Iwata said there’s no new hardware for 2013. Instead, they will work at making amazing software.

The Yakuza Live-Action Movie is Black Comedy Gold

In 2007 Japanese director Miike Takashi made a live-action film adaptation of the first game in the Yakuza series: Yakuza: Like A Dragon. Despite living in Japan and being a fan of Miike’s work, I had never really gotten around to seeing the movie even in the five years since it came out. But with…

Cosplaying Comedian Says No to Marijuana

Sakura-Saki Inagaki isn’t your typical comedian. She dresses as Asuka Langley from Neon Genesis Evangelion. She isn’t only a cosplaying entertainer. She’s a cosplaying entertainer who doesn’t want you to smoke drugs. For the past few years, the Osaka Pharmaceutical Association has printed and distributed pamphlets depicting Inagaki, crossing her arms in an “X”, the…

Namco Bandai launched a teaser site for what looks like a motorcycle game.

See Yakuza 5’s Street Brawling, Taxi Driving, and Drum Playing in Action

After four main games and two spin-offs, you probably have a pretty good idea of what to expect from Yakuza 5: weapon-filled brawling action across Japan’s major metropolitan areas. While brutal and cinematic, the brawling aspect is only the smallest part of what you can do in Yakuza 5. Many side activities return from past…

Russia’s Method of Destroying Fake Chinese iPhones Is Interesting

Over 120 fake iPhone 4 and 4s handsets were confiscated in the Amur region of Russia. According to website English Russia, the country usually bulldozes pirated discs. This time, authorities decided to bulldoze the phones. A Chinese national brought the handsets into Russia, but did not have proof that they were genuine. He was fined…

Square Enix launched a teaser site. Is it a FFV remake? A FFVI remake?