This Week’s Android Charts: A Touching Story About Zombies

Another week, another 20 Android apps vying for attention on the top paid and free charts. All the usual suspects are present and accounted for—19 games that have been poking about the rankings for weeks, months and even years. There’s only one fresh face here, though technically it’s been rotting for ages. Zombie Smasher is…

Monopoly Scraps Iron, Says Hello, Kitty

The exclusive fraternity of Monopoly tokens, bridging many generations with the shared childhood memory of fighting over who got the racecar, added a new member to its ranks today, and got rid of that stupid flat iron once and for all. What’s new? Well, as this was voted on by the Internet, there was no…

Iron Man’s New Armour Can Fit On Your Desk

I’m not sold on the Mark XLII armour in the upcoming Iron Man 3. There’s just so much gold. But hey, colour preferences aside, you can at least count on Hot Toys to nail the plastic representation of the thing in adult collectible form. Priced at $165, he’ll be out in May, comes with a…

New Skylanders Swap Force Trailer Shows Off Wacky Combos and Vibrant Action

Activision’s latest figure-collecting-slash-video-game-adventure, Skylanders Swap Force, has recently got a brand new teaser trailer. The two-minute short showcases some of the figures and the ways they can be combined, then moves on to show us some colorful (and explosive!) gameplay footage. The trailer boasts 256 swap combinations in total, and a release date of Fall…

Weddings Don’t Get Much Geekier Than This

When nerds get married, they often have very nerdy weddings. This ceremony in China checked all the geeky boxes—and then some. According to website China Explosion, the groom picked up his bride in an itasha that was covered with stickers of virtual idol Hatsune Miku. His bride was wearing a Hatsune Miku outfit, too, when…

This Isn’t the Hardest Music Game You’ve Ever Seen. It’s Snow.

A recent video popped up on YouTube, and it shows a spectacular rooftop snowfall in China. On YouTube and on various blogs, people are comparing the snowfall to difficult stages in music games like Beatmania and Guitar Hero. And you know, it kind of does look like that, but colder Rooftop Snow Falls In Spectacular…

The Most Badass Classic Ninja Games

There’s no doubt that ninja are among the coolest video game characters. They do everything with style; running, jumping, fighting, even breathing. These games—mostly platformers—were able to capture this no matter how limited the hardware capacity was; ninja always look awesome. Ninja Gaiden (NES) source: HardcoreGaming101 The Last Ninja series (C64) source: Atari Age Forums…

Blizzard put up a site featuring a Project Blackstone. The password is Y7_$0>0k_3

It’s Like That Shocking Head Shaving Apology Never Happened

Last week, Japanese singer Minami Minegishi shaved her head after a tabloid photographed her leaving a boy band member’s house. In the strict world of Japanese idols, dating boys is a no-no. Cover-ups, however, are totally fine. After Minegishi’s group AKB48 uploaded her shaved head video apology on its official YouTube channel, the clip soon…

The Magic of Skyrim Mods: A Naked Man Swimming in Cabbage

Just when you think you’ve seen it all, you really have not. The wonderful world of Skyrim mods never ceases to delight and amaze. These screenshots recently popped up online in Japan, with a forum commenter pointing out that The Elders Scrolls V: Skyrim was a game in which you could play in a river…

Wii U title Ninja Gaiden 3: Razor’s Edge is headed to the PS3 and the Xbox 360, Famitsu is rumored to report.

This Enormous Transformers Snow Sculpture Will Blow Your Mind

There’s more than meets the eye at this year’s winter festival in the northern Japanese city of Asahikawa. There’s a huge Transformers snow sculpture. Since 1959, the city of Asahikawa has held an annual winter festival, and this year, Japanese toy maker Takara Toy is rolling out this enormous piece of snow art. “More Than…

Namco and Nintendo are teaming up for yet another Mario Kart arcade game. Details here

Don’t Object to This Ace Attorney Cosplay

Legal eagle game series Ace Attorney has players use their wits as they collect evidence and go to trial. But the legal sleuth aspect isn’t only why fans love the Ace Attorney games. They love the sense of humor and colorful characters. The games have captured the imagination of players across the world, and the…

Microsoft’s Surface Pro sounded pretty good for gaming. Shame getting Civ V running sounds like pulling teeth

A Most Unexpected GI Joe Recruitment Video

Well, this didn’t end like I thought it would. And by that I mean, I was hoping to actually get a look at Keith David. Ah well.

You’re Going To Have To Hack Your Brains Out In This “Twentieth-Century Cyberpunk” Game

Here’s the brief for Quadrilateral Cowboy, an upcoming PC game by Blendo Games: When you have a top-of-the-line hacking deck armed with a 56.6k modem and a staggering 256k RAM, it means just one thing: you answer only to the highest bidder. The video above shows… well, I’m more interested than I was after reading…

The Cold, Not-So-Lonely Art Of Dead Space 3

The game itself may be dividing critics, but I’d hope there’s one thing we can all agree on, and that’s the fact that before the game’s frozen wastelands could be played, they first had to be drawn by some very talented people. We’ve featured Patrick’s work here before, but now that Dead Space 3 is…

Sony’s Most Forgettable Game Will Soon Be Forgotten

There have few more puzzling game releases in the last decade than Bullet Run, a game published by Sony Online Entertainment that looked so generic and commercially pointless that you wondered how it was ever green-lit in the first place. Surprising absolutely nobody, then, aside from maybe those who had forgotten the game even existed,…

An Idea Of What A Future Link & Zelda Could Look Like

Let’s close our eyes and dream that, after post-apocalyptic waterworlds, train rides and gritty cowboy tales, Nintendo gets even braver and pushes the Legend of Zelda series into the future. Hoverboards, Robopona, the Master LightSword, the works. What could Link and Zelda look like? Well, they could look a lot worse than these ideas by…