ChefVille ‘Rapid Rosemary’ Quests: Everything You Need to Know

ChefVille and Cafe World already share plenty of traits due to the simple fact that they’re both Facebook cooking games. But the former retained a limitation from Cafe World that should have been scrapped: a counter limit. Instead or removing this limit entirely, allowing players to cook as many dishes as they’d like without waiting…

Nintendo’s President Plays a Thief in Game & Wario

Announced today during a Nintendo Direct broadcast, Game & Wario bundles together 16 mini-games where players with the Wii U gamepad and Wimotes will compete against each other. One game called Fruits will have players stealing edibles while the others try to catch him. In the video above, Nintendo president Satoru Iwata snatches an apple…

The Wii U’s Lego Game Appears to Use the GamePad Well

Untethered to any movies, comics or TV shows, the Wii U’s Lego City Undercover will be -gasp- an entirely original Lego game from Traveller’s Tales and Nintendo. We saw it at E3 and today we’ve got a new look at it. Pretty nice, huh? It’s slated for an early 2013 release, though it’s unclear if…

The Pokémon Creator’s First Non-Pokémon Game In Ages Is Coming To America

The rhythmic combat game HarmoKnight will be coming to the 3DS in North America “soon,” Nintendo said today. The most interesting thing about the game? It’s the first non-Pokémon game that Pokémon creators GameFreak have made since Drilldozer on the Game Boy Advance. The game was released in Japan this past fall. See it in…

Fire Emblem: Awakening will be out for the 3DS in the U.S. on February 4th, 2013.

Pikmin 3 Gets Beautiful on Wii U Next Spring

In today’s Nintendo Direct, a release timeframe of Q2 2013 was revealed for Pikmin 3. During the broadcast, viewers got a look at the in-progress version of the latest entry of the strategy action franchise. The sequences showed Captain Olimar and a troop of Pikmin wandering through lush garden environments, battling with a giant crab…

Wii Fit U will be released for Wii U in “the first part of 2013,” whenever that is. Nintendo says it’ll include dancing!

Looks Like There’s New Mass Effect 3 DLC on the Way

Eurogamer reports that a new installment of single-player content is being made for Mass Effect 3 The add-on is being crafted at BioWare Edmonton—as opposed to BioWare’s new Montreal studio, where the Omega DLC was created—with all the writers who worked on Mass Effect 3 coming back. A post by designer Jos Hendriks on BioWare’s…

Beeline Games is cleaning up the town early next year with a social mobile game based on the Ghostbusters franchise.

This Game Is Like An iPhone Gears Of War, With Snowballs

‘Tis the season for snowball fights, at least if you’re lucky enough to live in a part of the world that gets below freezing. Grab some friends, put on your snow-pants, ball up some icy white residue from the sidewalk, and let it fly. Video games have a history of great snowball fights, and Uppercut…

The Best (You Make Up The Category) Video Games Of The Year

It’s Game of the Year season. You’ll be seeing lots of people name their Best Video Game, Best PC Game, Best Xbox 360 Game, Best Shooter, Best Fighting Game, Best, Best, Best… And yet I can tell you right now that some games that deserve recognition won’t win anyone else’s awards, because they don’t fit.…

If This Was An Official Nintendo Commercial, Maybe People Would Know What The Hell A Wii U Is

A lot of people don’t seem to realize what the Wii U is. Is this cryptic Nintendo commercial just another Wii? I don’t get it, some people said. Even Michelle Obama didn’t make the distinction But maybe this commercial would help clear up that this is a new console. Or, hell, maybe it’d make things…

While we wait for the doors to Zynga’s CoasterVille to open, here’s the launch trailer, complete with horking.

Watch This Guy Shoot $20,000 Worth of Real-Life Far Cry 3 Weaponry

FPS Russia is one of my favorite YouTubers, because I get to live vicariously through him shooting weapons that I doubt I could get my hands on. Yesterday the esteemed shooter uploaded a video to show off some of Far Cry 3‘s weapons, which Kirk is a big fan of Watch FPS Russia shoot Far…

It’s a Mobile Resident Evil Ripoff, But It’s Not Half Bad

From Yingpei Games, the developer formerly known as Epic Games China, comes Mercenary Ops, an Unreal Engine-powered on-rail zombie shooter that’s one of the best Resident Evil games on iTunes, despite not being a Resident Evil game. One look at the game’s iTunes description makes its inspiration abundantly clear: “In Mercenary Ops, you are Leo,…

Wow, This Cancelled Streets of Rage Remake Looks Great

Streets of Rage has to be one of the all-time classic side-scrolling beat-em-ups, right? It had a sense of an atmosphere of menace that other games lacked. After a fan-made game was scuttled by Sega, the only activity on the old-school series has been mobile releases of the original games. So it’s a real shame…

Skyrim: Dragonborn: The Kotaku Review

I’ve never played Morrowind, but when people rave about it—usually in sentences punctuated with faux outrage and admonishments like “How have you never played Morrowind???”—they like to play up its creative, bizarre world, a place where gods interact with mortals on a regular basis and wizards live in houses carved out of overgrown mushrooms. Skyrim‘s…

SongPop Tops Facebook’s 25 Highest-Rated Social Games of 2012

Grabbing social gamers by their dangling music nostalgia glands, SongPop tops Facebook’s list of the top 25 web-based and mobile social games of 2012. It also makes for a lousy top image, so I went with number 14, NaturalMotion’s CSR Racing, instead. Pretty car. Using a mystical combination of App Center star ratings, negative and…

Highly ambitious action RPG Path of Exile will be entering open beta on 1/23/13, not this month as previously reported.

Watch the Latest Nintendo Direct Here

Today’s Nintendo Direct revealed tons of new, great footage of titles coming to the Wii U. In case you missed it, the whole video can be found above. To make looking up the new footage a bit easier, here’s a list with the times to skip to to look at the most interesting games and…