Zombies Look Really Ugly In The Trailer For The Walking Dead‘s Shooter

This is the first official trailer for The Walking Dead: Survival Instinct, aka that Walking Dead shooter that has absolutely nothing to do with the Walking Dead games that everyone loves. Survival Instinct is out March 19 for Xbox 360, PS3, and PC. March 26 for Wii U. What do you think? Any interest?

Watch Gabe Newell’s DICE Keynote Live Right Here [UPDATE: It’s Over]

Valve boss Gabe Newell is speaking at the D.I.C.E. show in Las Vegas today, and you can watch the livestream right here. The respected developer almost always has smart and interesting things to say, so expect an entertaining speech. Will he talk about Steam boxes? Movie plans? Ricochet 2? Let’s see. The speech starts at…

Rayman Legends No Longer a Wii U Exclusive; PS3 and Xbox 360 Versions Also Coming in September

There’s good news and bad news, Rayman fans. First, the bad news: Rayman Legends—the follow-up to the fun, much-praised Rayman Origins—has been delayed until this September, about six months after its original February 26th release date. The good news is that PS3 and Xbox 360 owners will also be getting their own versions of the…

The Best Thing About This Dragon Breeding Game is Definitely the Vomit

It’s not the hand-animated visuals, crafted by artists whose resumes include My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic and Atomic Betty. It’s not the challenge of matching each dragon with their favorite treasures, collecting and combining items to create more potent pieces. No, it’s definitely the vomiting, followed closely by the rainbow pooping. East Side Games’…

The Wikipad Gaming Tablet Is Finally Coming Out. And It’ll Be Cheaper.

Originally, the Wikipad—an Android tablet with a custom controller dock—was supposed to come out last Halloween. But October 31st came and went with no Wikipads in any store anywhere. But the hybrid portable is alive and will be showing up in a smaller, less expensive form this spring. The Wikipad coming in a few months…

Don’t Call BioWare’s Next Sci-Fi Game Mass Effect 4

Mass Effect 3 is well behind us and fans already know that that an upcoming game set in Bioware’s far-future universe is in development at BioWare Montreal’s studio. That game doesn’t have a name yet. But, the dev studio’s representatives really don’t want you to refer to it as Mass Effect 4 [If you haven’t…

I Wish I Were Good At Video Games So I Could Be Cool Like People In 90s Movies

Having Mad Skills is a huge part of the video game culture mythos. Do you remember the future promised to us in the 1990s, where every TV show had a kid just like you “going in the game,” crowned with a giant jutting VR helmet? Remember all the kids in action kneepads, waving power-gloved fingers,…

This Week’s Windows Phone Charts: I Need Your Skulls

What does it take to unseat Angry Birds from the top of the Windows Phone game charts? How about something smart, sexy and exclusive? Skulls of the Shogun‘s stylish real-time strategy cuts a wide swath through this week’s top ten list. An exclusive iOS game is just another iOS game. An exclusive Android game is…

Stargate SG-1: Unleashed Seeks to Revive SG-1 As An Interactive Adventure

From the people who brought you Stargate Golf Teal’c’s Revenge, here’s a teaser trailer for Stargate SG-1: Unleashed. Calling itself an “Interactive Adventure”, the game was first revealed (sort of) last November by a pair of tweets from former Stargate: SG-1 actors Amanda Tapping and Michael Shanks (via SGGamingInfo): Stargate SG-1: Unleashed is due “soon”…

Borderlands Legends is Better (and Cheaper) Than Ever Before

When making a mobile spin-off of a major console/PC game, one neat thing to include would be some equivalent of the most popular features of the franchise proper. There were no gun loot drops in Borderlands Legends for the iPhone and iPad. Now there are. Part strategy, part shooter and part action RPG, Borderlands Legends‘…

Here Are The Top 30 Games Japanese Gamers Are Looking Forward To In 2013

2013 is only 1/12th over. With 11 months left and new console news on the horizon, Weekly Famitsu asked its readers what games they were looking forward to for this year. Here’s a list of the top 30 anticipated upcoming games for 2013 (note: All publishers and release dates are for Japanese release versions): 30…

Nothing Says Valentine’s Day Like a Circuit Board. Made of Chocolate.

How romantic! Japanese computer peripheral maker I-O Data is teaming up with a confectionery maker named Maple House for a special campaign in which three lucky individuals will get chocolate that’s shaped like a memory circuit board. Because additional memory looks delicious. The boards are incredibly detailed and realistic—so much so that I-O Data is…

Sweeping landscapes. Floating ruins, trees and lava falls. February 12. Sega’s teasing something, but what? Any ideas?

I Hope This New PS Vita Game Has Enough Originality To Stand On Its Own

Toukiden is the new PS Vita game from Tecmo Koei. Originally announced as an entirely new title from the Omega-Force development team (of Dynasty Warriors fame), the game trailer showed a female warrior hacking up and killing a giant creature in a very medieval Japan sort of setting. Well, according to information released to Weekly…

The PS4 Hype Train Destroys the Internet With Animated GIFs

Last week, the internet went mental. Sony announced it would be holding an event later this month in New York City—an event to unveil the PlayStation 4, apparently. The hype train pulled into the station, and every Sony diehard in sight hopped on. In the wake of “Oh shit, cannot wait” and the “Is this…

Soul Sacrifice Can Turn You Into One Ugly Mofo

As previously reported, in Soul Sacrifice, players will find themselves making a lot of different choices as they progress through the story of a sacrificial lamb fighting through an evil sorcerer’s past in the form of a living book to gain the power to fight for his/her freedom. Japan’s gaming magazine Weekly Famitsu has revealed…

The Coolest 2D Video Game on Earth Is Hong Kong

After visiting a friend in Hong Kong, Swedish photographer Christian Åslund thought the streets below looked like the best video game he had never played. The result is this tribute to 2D gaming. According to website Hong Wrong, to make the landscape appear flat, Åslund shot from above, using a telephoto lens. Often while laying…

Fifty-five percent of Chinese computers are infected with malware. Yikes!

Japanese Xbox Users Made a Miiverse Clone. Yep, It’s Covered in Dicks.

Dicks, why does it always have to be dicks? Before the Wii U’s user forum, dubbed the Miiverse, launched, I said that it would be a dick drawing inferno. Little did I know that Japanese Xbox users would launch their own Miiverse clone. But, I’ll tell you what, I sure saw the dick drawings coming.…

About that PS4 Price Rumor…

This morning, Japan’s Asahi News ran a story on the PS4. It included several things we’ve heard before, such as how the PS4 will allow you to share things with friends while playing (more here in a previous story) and that it will come with a DualShock 3 shaped controller—which Kotaku previously reported (Meanwhile, the…