Dead Island Shouldn’t Be The Only Game That Comes With A Severed Torso Statue

By now you’ve probably seen the ridiculous bikini-clad severed torso that publisher Deep Silver is packaging with the European/Australian special edition of zombie action-RPG Dead Island: Riptide It is gross and awful—to the point where Deep Silver just issued an apology for the statue—but hey, why let them have all the fun? We’ve put together…

Try These New Comic Books This Week

Time is tight, our comics guru Evan is out, but these are not good excuses for withholding out weekly comic book recommendations. I’m here, people! I’m here to swoop in and recommend a few comics that might be good. Look, I haven’t read these comics I’m suggesting you browse/read/buy. But I know some stuff about…

Freed Arma III Developers Will Still Face Trial, Not Out of the Woods Yet

This morning brought the news that Ivan Buchta and Martin Pezlar, two developers from the Czech Republic’s Bohemia Interactive (Arma, DayZ), were freed on bail after spending the last 128 days under arrest in Greece for possible—denied—espionage There was much celebration by the developers’ family and friends, but a Bohemia rep says the guys aren’t…

Upcoming Dark Knight Returns Cartoon Reminds Us of Batman’s Stance on Guns: “These Are the Weapons of Cowards”

As this clip from the second part of the animated adaptation of Frank Miller’s classic graphic novel shows, Batman’s position on gun control has always been clear. Bruce Wayne thinks that nobody should have them. Given the trauma that lay in his past, you can’t really blame the guy. As good as this scene is,…

The Enchanted Glen Update Goes Live: FarmVille is Magic

Today Zynga transforms FarmVille into a magical wonderland of joy and laughter and joyness with the Enchanted Glen update, now live for players level 15 and up that didn’t manage to secure early access. Can I farm ponies now? According to the Zynga blog post, FarmVille’s ninth expansion tells the story of the Sun Fairy…

Deep Silver Is ‘Deeply Sorry’ About Trying to Sell Their Game With A Statue Of A Severed Woman

Following today’s firestorm of negative reactions, game publisher Deep Silver has apologized for the ridiculously tasteless zombie torso statue that they planned to include in one of the collector’s editions for Dead Island Riptide Deep Silver posted the apology on Twitter: A statement on the Zombie Bait Edition: We deeply apologize for any offense caused…

You’ll Be Able to Play As Jack Sparrow, Woody, Or Any Other Disney Character In The Crazy Ambitious Disney Infinity

Disney Infinity sounds like it’s going to be the biggest thing Disney has ever done with games, and it’s coming out this June. At a press event in L.A., Disney honchos are just pouring out details that matched pretty well with earlier leaks What is this thing? It’s going to be a massive series of…

Square Enix Will Probably Announce A New, Original Final Fantasy Game For iOS On Thursday

So Square Enix has a new teaser up for a game that they’ll announce on Thursday. The most plausible theory: it’s a totally new, original iOS game called Final Fantasy: All The Bravest Some have theorized that this is a remake or mobile port of Final Fantasy V or Final Fantasy VI, but the sprite…

Five Things Online Shooters Should Do Less

Last time, I told you about my (possibly crackpot) ideas on how to improve online shooters by listing what they should do more of. We’re talking things like, letting me play dress up and giving me an ‘everything unlocked’ mode. Now I’m here to tell you my (possibly crazy) list of what I think shooters…

The sequel to Corpse Party, Book of Shadows, is out today on PSN in North America. $20 to download on your PSP or Vita.

Stephen Colbert Shows How Absurd It Is To Blame Video Games For Violence

Stephen Colbert adds some much-needed levity to the conversation about violent video games, which has gone national in a big way following U.S. vice president Joe Biden’s meeting with the games industry last week And really, who among us doesn’t look back and sigh when we think back to the good old days, when we…

ChefVille ‘Tacos Especiales’ Quests: Everything You Need to Know

Hopefully, you’ve already made some progress in the “Stand for Tacos” quests in ChefVille, which introduced a new Taco Stand and Flour Tortilla Maker to the game, as there’s another set of new quests to complete in this new taco theme. A brand new Specialty Meat Stand has launched in the store, and you can…

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Find Out if Your PC Can Run BioShock Infinite (And Has Room For It!)

Here are the minimum and recommended specs for running BioShock Infinite PC. We can’t say for sure whether you should run the game on PC, as opposed to Xbox 360 or PS3. But, judging by how good the first 4 1/2 hours of the game are, we recommend your run it on something These specs…

The Latest Batch Of Steam Greenlight Games Includes Leisure Suit Larry

Lewd adventure game Leisure Suit Larry and the funny parody DLC Quest are among the latest batch of Steam Greenlight games, announced by Valve today. These are games (and non-games!) voted by the community to receive coveted spots on Valve’s digital distribution service. Here’s Valve in a press release: Valve today revealed the fourth set…

If you play the currently-Kickstarting game Wildman as a female character, the game will rename itself “Wildwoman.”

5 Things You Should Know About The Borderlands 2 DLC That Came Out Today

[Editor’s note: Below follows our impressions of Sir Hammerlock’s Big Game Hunt, which releases today. I played the add-on content roughly a month ago, finishing all the main quests and a handful of side quests. This article has also been updated with the new launch trailer.] We’re up to our third campaign add-on for September’s…

Ron Gilbert’s The Cave will be released on January 22nd for PSN & Wii U, and January 23rd for XBLA & Steam. Only a week!

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…