You Could Win $200,000 for Playing The Most Annoying Facebook Game Ever Made

How would you like to win a $200,000 mortgage pay off or $100,000 cash? That’s the grand prize in Race 4 My Place, a new social city building game that trades real-money microtransactions for an even more annoying revenue model—mandatory advertising. PopRox Entertainment’s Race 4 My Place seems like a wonderful idea. It’s a Facebook…

Two Major Features Every Retro Game Service Needs

If you like old games, life is good in 2013. We have digital access to a wide library of retro titles ranging from NES classics to random Japanese imports like Makeruna Makendo 2. Services like the Virtual Console and PlayStation Network allow us to re-play old games without rummaging through our closets for the Super…

The Aliens In Colonial Marines Are So Stupid, You Don’t Even Need To Shoot Them

Last night, my review briefly touched on the disappointing enemy AI in Aliens: Colonial Marines—often, Xenos would run straight at you. According to this video by PCGamesN, it gets worse. You can straight up run through the aliens, who forget about you once you’re far enough (and by “far enough” I mean “once you’re behind…

FarmVille 2 Turkish Delights Kitchen Recipes: Everything You Need to Know

Now that you’ve had a complete look at the Turkish Delights theme in FarmVille 2, it’s time to dive deeper with a look at the three themed recipes that are available to cook in the game’s Crafting Kitchens. We’re here with a complete guide to these dishes, their ingredients, and their rewards. The first dish…

Avengers, Angry Birds and Star Trek Enterprises: Toy Fair 2013, Day 3

Hasbro transforms and rolls out to the beat of its own drummer. The giant company held court at its own preview space during Toy Fair 2013, blocks away from the trade show’s epicenter. On display were Star Trek and Transformers-centric updates to the Kreo building blocks, toys tied into this year’s Thor: the Dark World…

EA tells RPS Medal of Honor games are on hold in favor of Battlefields b/c MoH lacked the best production leadership.

The Mother-and-Alien-Child Reunion is a Couple of Motions Away in Stick To It

Whenever I feel like the physics puzzle format is completely played out, Fahey slides me another download code, and the thing turns out to be pretty good. Stick To It, ahem, adheres to the basic principles of the genre, but shows there are still clever ways to challenge players to finish a puzzle with an…

Now There’s an Official App for Watching Pokemon Cartoons

I had no idea I wanted an app that featured a weekly rotation of 50 episodes of the Pokemon cartoon sorted by game region until just now. The free Pokemon TV App is here, and it wants to show you its Pokemons. Not only does the free app, available today on iTunes and Google Play,…

Patent Application Points to New PS Vita with HDMI and USB [Update]

A patent application filed last year describes a new PlayStation Vita configuration which includes HDMI and USB support. The application was published on Feb. 7. That image above was included in the filing, dated July 27. Sony, of course, has an event scheduled for Feb. 20 at which the next PlayStation console is expected to…

Rayman Legends Lead Designer Poses With People Protesting the Game’s Six-Month Delay

Rayman Legends—hotly anticipated as one of the best third-party games coming to the Wii U—was supposed to hit the Nintendo console in two weeks. But, Ubisoft announced a six-month delay for the game last week so that work can be done on porting it to the Xbox 360 and PS3—and Wii U owners have been…

Max Payne 3 is $17.99 (with free shipping) today at Best Buy (360, PS3).

How To Build A Great Gaming PC For Under $700

“Why didn’t you tell me about this sooner?” It’s a question I’ve heard with increasing frequency the past few years, uttered by friends who’ve finally dipped their toes into PC gaming, discovering what it has to offer them. Before taking the plunge, they had been wary, citing the prohibitive cost and overly complex nature of…

This Week’s iPhone Charts: Attack of the Clones

On the right side you’ve got RedSpell’s What’s the Word?, a picture-based word game that’s been tearing up the free iPhone charts for several weeks. On the left, LOTUM GmbH’s What’s the Word?, a picture-based word game that arrived on iTunes on February 4. Guess which one is at the top of this week’s charts?…

The Next Game in Batman’s Arkham Series is Coming This Year, Says Time Warner Exec

Slipped within Time Warner’s call to investors last week was this mention, from the company’s chief financial officer, that the next entry in the acclaimed Arkham series of Batman video games will be arriving in 2013. Said John K. Martin, Time Warner’s chief financial officer: And we also have a strong games release this year,…

Gamestop and Best Buy (per The Sixth Axis) say The Last of Us will release on June 18, not May 7th.

Aliens: Colonial Marines: The Kotaku Review

A game based on existing media has three options. It can strive to be faithful to the original work, privileging authenticity above all else. It can try to do its own thing, using the original work as merely a jumping off point for something else. Or, it can try to find a balance between authenticity…

Nintendo’s Awkward 1990s, Remembered On Resurrected VHS

NeoGAF user jjgames has done the history of video games—or at least our ability to easily access some awkwardly amusing parts of it—a great favour. He’s bought six old VHS tapes from the 90s, each containing a Nintendo marketing or training video. They remind us of a time Nintendo was a lot warmer, a lot…

The New Ghost in the Shell Series Gets Its First Trailer

Earlier tonight here in Tokyo, Bandai Visual held a launch event for Ghost in the Shell: Arise, the new Ghost in the Shell anime series announced earlier this year. The event was full of interviews with the various creators of the new series and had several interesting announcements—like the fact that it is a prequel…

How to Play Games From the Japanese PSN on Your Non-Japanese Vita [Update]

Do you have a PlayStation Vita and a love of Japanese games, but feel the games you want to play take too long to get localized or—worse yet—will never leave Japan? Well, there is good news for you: The Vita is region free and can play any game from any region. However, there is also…

Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex is getting an online FPS next year, Famitsu reports