ChefVille ‘Sauce Man’ Quests: Everything You Need to Know

Last week, ChefVille players were asked to cook pasta dishes in bulk to complete one of Bello’s Valentine’s Day quest sets. Now, Bello’s back again with another challenge: Cook dishes containing Tomato Sauce. This series of three new “Sauce Man” quests that will be available for the next three days. We’re here with a complete…

BioShock Infinite‘s Lead Creator on History, Video Game Violence and… What Happens to the Sewage in a Floating City?

In an office in Union Square last week, BioShock Infinite ‘s lead creator, Ken Levine, said I could ask him about anything. He was in a kind and generous mood, offering me a strawberry from a bowl of them—he at eats at least half a pound of them a day, he told me. Anything? OK……

Insane Kickstarter Promises A Video Game You Can Play With Your Mind

In the world of zany Kickstarter projects, this is one of the zaniest. Give these guys $40,000 and they’ll let you blow things up with your mind. The aptly-named Throw Trucks With Your Mind is a video game that promises to let you use your mind to move things around in-game. You use a regular…

This Robot Racer Will Make You Love To Race (And Hate) Your Friends

These days, it feels like the phrase “iPhone racing games are a dime a dozen” is an understatement—heck, more than a dozen of these games are free. So when I’m playing a new one, it had better grab me in the first thirty or forty seconds, else I’ll just go back to playing Time Surfer…

Here’s video of the Empire Strikes Back table for Zen’s Star Wars Pinball series. A look at Boba Fett comes next week.

Gabe Newell and JJ Abrams’ Wonderful, Unprecedented Talk Has An R2D2 Easter Egg

A week after it happened, you can now watch the DICE Summit’s kick-off talk between Star Trek/Star Wars‘ JJ Abrams and Steam/Half-Life 3‘s Gabe Newell. It was a fun talk that ended with Abrams and Newell talking about making games and movies together. That’s the news you probably saw last week. But watch everything that…

This Week’s Android Charts: Google Play Could Really Use a ‘New Release’ Section

Oh look, it’s Minecraft Pocket Edition at the top of the Android paid game charts, recovered from last week’ brief bout of Ruzzle fever. There’s not a single new game on the Android top paid charts, just the usual suspects shuffling about. Mosquitoes are starting to breed in it. The free chart isn’t much better.…

“Brutal…Brilliant”… and Coming Out Who-Knows-When

The moody, gritty PC/PS3/Xbox 360 shooter Metro: Last Light was supposed to come out in early 2013, which is probably why ads for it started showing up atop New York City taxi cabs many weeks ago. Then Metro‘s publisher, THQ fell apart. Metro will eventually be released by new publisher Deep Silver. For now, it’s…

MLB 13 The Show Gets Seven New Stadiums—in the Minor Leagues

When I finish with my professional obligations in writing about MLB The Show and sit down to play it for my own enjoyment, I’m nearly 100 percent a Road to the Show player. That’s the game’s career mode, where you bring a guy out of the minor leagues into the majors and, one hopes, stardom.…

Wreck-It Ralph’s Deleted Scene Would Have Mashed Up The Sims With Grand Theft Auto

When it hit movie theaters last year, Wreck-It Ralph had tons of little details that made the Disney film feel one of the few that got video games right. It’s available for download today and a new interview at MTV reveals that some of the best stuff—an open-world social game where Ralph goes to mope…

EA Readies Short Attention Span Tetris

Coming this spring to Android and iOS, Tetris Blitz takes the lightning round concept of Bejeweled Blitz and applies it to the world’s most beloved poozle (Russian for puzzle, probably) game. This does not mean you won’t spend an hour playing Tetris in the bathroom at work—you’ll just get a lot more games in one…

New Nintendo Direct coming tomorrow at 9am Eastern. This one’s all about upcoming 3DS and Wii U games, Nintendo says.

Most Reviewers Agree You Should Avoid Aliens: Colonial Marines Like The Plague

Not that they all agree, oh no. To call Aliens: Colonial Marines divisive would be an understatement. Reactions have ranged from disgust and feelings of betrayal, to indifference, and sometimes even awe and affection. A lot of them think that there’s more polish to Colonial Marines’ multiplayer than its singleplayer, but how does that affect…

Latest Dead or Alive 5 Patch Brings Enhanced Boob Control

Just because Team Ninja, the developers behind Dead or Alive, are all out of fucks to give about releasing hyper-sexualized games, that doesn’t mean they’re not updating Dead or Alive 5. The latest update sneaks in, wait for it, a breast jiggling Easter Egg. Shocking! Spotted by GameFAQS, patch 1.03A for the PS3 version gives…

L-l-look at you, hacker. System Shock 2 is finally coming to GOG (countdown at the top!). [via RPS] UPDATE: It’s out!

The Craziest Testosterone-Filled Japanese Video Game Characters

When it comes to Japanese developers, creating crazy, nice games isn’t the only thing they’re good at; they also design characters with pumped-to-the-max muscles, half of which don’t even exist in real life and have the size of a truck. And they are all really serious about beating the hell out of everyone around them.…

Ys and The Legend of the Heroes developer Falcom is opening a new smartphone and tablets studio.

Asians Taking a Test To Tell Asians Apart

Who looks Japanese? Can you distinguish between Korean and Chinese people? Website AllLookSame.com tests people’s facial recognition ability. This week, the website’s test has been appearing on numerous popular Japanese blogs, such as Rocket News. How are people in Asia doing with recognizing people from other nationalities? The “average” score is seven out of 18.…

Yes, The PlayStation’s Startup Music Is Still Orgasmic

Remember when the original PlayStation came out? Better yet, remember how incredibly amazing the system’s start up music was? Holy smoke, that was good—and it’s even amazing all these years later. With Sony getting ready to announce the future of the PlayStation on February 20, now is as good a time as any to look…

Two Dudes Making a Little Girl Wait To Play an Arcade Game That’s… for Little Girls

At most arcades in Japan, there’s a section for kids. The kiddy games are often card (or plastic puck) based. There are kiddy arcade games aimed at little boys and ones aimed at little girls. Sounds like these two clowns didn’t get the message. This photo was snapped at a Sega arcade in Japan. Two…