The Stylish Totem Runner is a Worthy Savior in a Dark Time

Forgive me, this will sound like damnation by faint praise, but I almost didn’t know what to do with myself after completing a level in Totem Runner. I can’t remember the last time a new mobile game didn’t use the intermission to sell me something I didn’t want. Most importantly, Totem Runner is good on…

Get a Glimpse of Minecraft’s “Pretty Scary” Update Right Here

Minecraft isn’t just a place where weird crossovers happens. It’s also a living, breathing environment that’s in a constant state of flux. The latest changes coming with the game’s 1.4 update will be Halloween-themed, with new enemies, crafting tools and decorations for users to mess around with.

SimCity Social Night Mayor Quests: Everything You Need to Know

With just days left before Halloween, EA and Playfish have finally brought the holiday to SimCity Social on Facebook via the release of the Trick or Treat Trail. This timed event will see us interacting with vampires, werewolves, ghosts, zombies and more as we complete five different quest lines over the next week. That’s not…

Someone Found A Rainbow Road in Forza Horizon

In the midst of the beautiful, open roads of Colorado found in this year’s Forza game is a hidden surprise: Mario Kart‘s Rainbow Road. Ok, ok. It’s not really Rainbow Road. It’s a glitch found by AmetDj2. But if you close your eyes real tight and replay the fond memories of performing the famous shortcut…

Old Video Game In Family’s Attic Turns Out To Be Extremely Rare, Possibly Worth $30,000

Air Raid was a mediocre game released in 1982 for the Atari 2600. Very few copies were produced or sold, which means that thirty years later, it’s an extraordinarily valuable collector’s item. Polygon reports that a new copy of Air Raid has surfaced, complete with box and manual. It’s the manual that makes this particular…

Explore Far Cry 3‘s Minecraft Space Now. It’s Got 50 Easter Eggs.

We already knew that a Far Cry 3 destination would be hitting Minecraft. And now it looks like the bizarre crossover between trippy, drug-fueled shooter and open-world construction sandbox has gone live. You’ll be able to wander through this addition to Mojang’s blocky landscapes and look for Far Cry 3 characters like madman antagonist Vaas…

Dragonvale with Robots?! You Bastards.

On no less than two separate occasions have I bemoaned the addictive nature of iPhone breeding game Dragonvale, the mobile game I’ve played longer than any other. Now Backflip Studios takes the same formula and applies it to robots. Dammit. Gizmonauts, now available on the iTunes App Store, is a robot breeding game. This should…

Darksiders II’s Death Sure Loves His Loot

Just when you think you know where this live-action short from Somewhat Awesome Films is going, it, uh, surprises you. Vigil Games added a deeper level of customization to Darksiders II and its central character apparently can’t get enough of all the goodies he finds. Except for Resident Evil 6. Can’t say I blame him…

As Fans Say StarCraft Is Dying, Blizzard Plans Some Big Changes

This November, hundreds will compete in a StarCraft II tournament run by the folks at Major League Gaming. The total prize pool will be $76,000, and the winner will walk away with a cool $25,000. Not bad for a weekend of playing video games. But some say that’s just not big enough. And if you…

This Week’s iPad Charts: I Told You He Had the Power

Last week I debuted the new and improved iPad gaming app charts, delivering the top free and paid apps in a relatively easy-to-read format. This week He-Man shows up and kicks the entries all over the place. Dear iPad gamers, the charts are not very dynamic if you keep loading new games onto them. I…

Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Comes To iOS And Android This Fall

To celebrate the upcoming 10th anniversary of Grand Theft Auto: Vice City (on October 29!), Rockstar will re-release the popular game on mobile platforms this fall. “Grand Theft Auto: Vice City gave players the freedom of a massive open-world in one of the most iconic and vibrant settings ever realized in a game,” Rockstar founder…

This Is Toy Story Replicated In Source Filmmaker, And It Gets A Bit Weird

Okay prepare for something a bit incredible, but also very, very strange. This is a scene from Toy Story, reanimated and rebuilt using Source Filmmaker. It starts off weird, then it gets kinda hilarious, then it gets weird again. I can’t really explain why, but I totally love it. The fact that it’s so jarred,…

This Mario Gun Will Shoot You in the Awesomeness

Custom toy genius Kody Koala is back. This time he’s turned a Nerf gun into a Mario gun. According to Kody Koala (aka Donald), “I used a Nerf Nite Finder, Mag lite mini flashlight, a PVC pipe, and an old Super Mario Sound Drop key chain that I had lying around.” Kody Koala is thinking…

Here’s Everything I Learned About Borderlands Legends

Have you heard? One of this year’s most exciting releases—Borderlands 2—is getting an iOS complement…sort of. The mobile game—called Borderlands Legends—is part shooter, part RPG, part action, and part strategy. Yes, all those things. And somehow, except for the occasional clutter, it works pretty well. From an angled projection, top-down view, you’ll control the original…

Project X Zone is Far More Than Just a Crossover Gimmick

Project X Zone is a new strategy RPG that takes famous characters from Capcom, Namco-Bandai and Sega franchises and combines them all into one mega-crossover adventure. There are characters from everything from Sakura Wars to Darkstalkers. But this crossover gimmick is far from all there is to the game and it easily holds its own…

Teacher Dresses Up as a Maid to Reward Her Students

It started with a promise: “If the class’ test scores this month are the highest for this grade in school, I will teach in a maid’s outfit,” a teacher in China apparently told her students. According to Xinhua, the teacher stayed true to her word, showing up in a frilly maid outfit and teaching a…

PS3 firmware (4.30) is causing Monster Hunter Portable 3rd HD Ver. to freeze, Sony said. An update to fix is incoming.

Why So Many Games These Days Are “Japan-Only”

Tales of Xillia is a great game—perhaps the best JRPG on the PlayStation 3. It was the second best-selling PS3 game in Japan last year (ninth best-selling in Japan overall), with 660,000 copies sold. And in a country where anything over 100,000 copies sold is considered a financial success, Tales of Xillia was a run-away…

You’ll Never Guess Where Burger King’s Pumpkin Burger Hides Its Lettuce

In the press image Burger King Japan released of its new “Bomb Pumpkin” burger, you can see the lettuce sitting atop ten slices of Japanese squash. In reality, however, it’s a different story. Japanese site Gigazine ordered the pumpkin behemoth burger, which didn’t appear to have any lettuce whatsoever. Oh, but there is lettuce—a solid…

This Pikachu Hairstyle Is Utterly Terrifying

Spotted in a Japanese men’s fashion magazine, this hair and make-up job is Pikachu themed. It’s also frightening. The ears look like clip-on decorations—they were supposedly made with what’s called “sukige” (すき毛), which is fake hair that’s sometimes used for more volume. These were then colored yellow and black. The look is completed with face…