Find Tricks and Treats This Weekend in Madden, NHL‘s Ultimate Teams

A two-day-only sale, currently into its second hour, offers a super card pack in NHL 13‘s Ultimate Team mode, comprising 32 cards in all, 18 of which are guaranteed rare items. I don’t think you get any actual ethereal players, as shown in that trailer above, nor any enormous Zdeno Chara. He’s already large enough.…

Abusive Player Editing Shows We Can’t Have Nice Things in Madden

When it released, Madden NFL 13‘s new “Connected Careers” mode forbade the editing of any player. This was somewhat understandable, as the roster is used by others online and changes can affect the outcomes of games elsewhere in your league. It was still rather Draconian, as it meant you could not edit your own created…

According to Twitter, The Wii U is “AWESOME,” “Overall pretty comfy”

Retailers Best Buy and GameStop have slowly been receiving Wii U demo kiosks to show off the upcoming Nintendo hardware to interested gamers. Though not every store seems to have gotten their kiosks yet, many have. And many gamers have gotten their hands on the Wii U’s GamePad. So what are they saying? What do…

The Week in Gaming Apps Goes on a Toy Run

There was a period of my life during which I spent all of my time either playing pen-and-paper role-playing games or running from Wal-Mart to Wal-Mart in search of the hottest toys. This Week in Gaming Apps is dedicated to that guy. He would have loved this. We’ve got two games based on cartoons with…

Conan O’Brien Knows How To Save Zynga

Zynga, beset by layoffs and financial losses, has been having a rough time lately. Such a rough time, in fact, that now it’s the butt of late-night talk show jokes. Comedian Conan O’Brien’s site suggests five games that the social mega-publisher can use to turn their fortunes around. And sure, Brony Wars would attract a…

Guillermo Del Toro’s Man Cave Is a Whole House. And It’s Really Awesome.

The man responsible for Pan’s Labyrinth is busy. He’s still looking for a home for his InSane horror game trilogy and putting the voice of GLADoS into his giant-robots-vs-giant-monsters feature film. But Guillermo del Toro still has to cook up more ideas for the books, films and other projects he wants to do. And the…

We Are Explorers: In Search of Mystery in Videogames

My favorite videogames are the games I don’t fully understand. They stay with me after I stop playing. They ask questions I cannot answer. They resonate with mystery. I get little satisfaction from completing a game. How boring, the feeling of 100%, all content exhausted, all achievements earned, all collectibles collected, all endings ended. If…

The Next Ratchet & Clank Game Comes Out on November 27th

Full Frontal Assault, the next release in Insomniac’s Ratchet & Clank series, will be out just in time to turn the holidays into a cartoony sci-fi frag fest. The downloadable title is going to cost you $19.99. For that price, you get the game for both PS3 and PlayStation Vita, with cross-play and cross-save across…

XCOM Isn’t A Horror Game, But It Sure Does Feel Like One

XCOM: Enemy Unknown is a turn based strategy game…or is it? While I acknowledge that I am a grade-A wuss in all things frightening, XCOM can still feel scary—almost like a horror game. You’re incredibly vulnerable, for starters. Regardless of how much I upgrade, the alien threat is always capable of destroying me. So I…

Apple’s Game Center Seems to be Malfunctioning Today. Blame Letterpress?

Game Center is really acting up today. iOS players have been taking to Twitter to voice concerns about Game Center breaking when attempting to play games, specifically Letterpress Letterpress is a fairly new word game for iOS devices. It relies on Game Center’s connectivity that allows you to play against your friends, sending notifications as…

Gearbox has patched the PC version of Borderlands 2 so that the latest DLC works with PhysX

Let’s Worry About The Games We Already Have

When I was a kid, my parents bought me a copy of Final Fantasy Legend II. This was okay for a while. It was a fun game. Then I found out there was a sequel. “There’s a Final Fantasy Legend THREE?” I said to my mom, screaming. “WHY DON’T I HAVE IT?” Things haven’t changed…

Return To New Vegas: God Bless V.A.T.S.

“Necessity is the mother of invention,” the old saying goes. If you’ve got a problem that must be solved but no proven way to solve it, you’re going to have to get creative. Fortunately for Bethesda, fixing Fallout 3‘s shooting didn’t require a new invention—in fact, it required them to look to the past. When…

Gamer Gets Pumped to Pump Iron. His Motivation: EVE Online.

Video games are not widely known as a motivation for hitting the gym. Especially not online games, which are better known for metaphorically chaining their players to their desks. One EVE Online player, though, decided that instead of hiding behind a fitter avatar, he’d become that avatar. As CNN reports, EVE Online player Marcus Dickinson…

G4 Canceling X-Play, Attack of the Show. Gaming Programming Nixed [Update]

G4—the network once known as the go-to destination for video game-friendly programming—is ending its gaming programming. The network is informing its employees in meetings today. We’ve heard that G4’s major video-game and geek-culture shows, including X-Play and Attack of the Show will be cancelled today by the network. A source close to the situation says…

The Best Glitch In Dishonored Gets You A Dance Party With Corpses

A dance party with corpses?! Corpses that I made?! Sign me up! The guys are RoosterTeeth have outdone themselves yet again. *slow clap* Achievement Hunter : Things to do in: Dishonored – Dance Party [YouTube]

One Part Alice in Wonderland, One Part Sherlock Holmes

It’s rather suspicious how two games I decided to write about today wound up new entries on this morning’s iPad charts. Perhaps I should have Constable Cheshire Jr. and the Mad Hatter look into the matter once they’re done unraveling the mystery of Mirrors of Albion An exciting new entry in the hidden object category…

Everything You Ever Needed To Know About The Lore of Uncharted, In One Minute

In the years between Uncharted and Uncharted 3 you, like me, may have forgotten quite how the whole backstory ties together, instead getting to distracted by shooting and stealing everything. Luckily, the Lore in a Minute team is on it! In sixty colorfully animated seconds, the history of Nathan Drake’s life all ties together and…

What Went Wrong With Silicon Knights’ X-Men: Destiny?

Bad video games are released all the time. A raft of factors conspire to influence the quality of the outcome. Maybe tight deadlines are to blame. Or maybe the problems include inexperienced developers, incompetent project management, impossible publisher requests, funding concerns. It’s a seemingly unavoidable fact that not every game can be great, or good,…

Don’t Let Your Xbox Red Ring This Halloween, Or Gameface Will Come For You

Mega64 wishes you an impending Happy Halloween with their latest video, telling the tale of Gameface. The video starts off a little slow, but stay for the great ending. Mega64: The Legend of Gameface [YouTube]