Five Things Online Shooters Should Do Less

Last time, I told you about my (possibly crackpot) ideas on how to improve online shooters by listing what they should do more of. We’re talking things like, letting me play dress up and giving me an ‘everything unlocked’ mode. Now I’m here to tell you my (possibly crazy) list of what I think shooters…

The sequel to Corpse Party, Book of Shadows, is out today on PSN in North America. $20 to download on your PSP or Vita.

Stephen Colbert Shows How Absurd It Is To Blame Video Games For Violence

Stephen Colbert adds some much-needed levity to the conversation about violent video games, which has gone national in a big way following U.S. vice president Joe Biden’s meeting with the games industry last week And really, who among us doesn’t look back and sigh when we think back to the good old days, when we…

ChefVille ‘Tacos Especiales’ Quests: Everything You Need to Know

Hopefully, you’ve already made some progress in the “Stand for Tacos” quests in ChefVille, which introduced a new Taco Stand and Flour Tortilla Maker to the game, as there’s another set of new quests to complete in this new taco theme. A brand new Specialty Meat Stand has launched in the store, and you can…

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Find Out if Your PC Can Run BioShock Infinite (And Has Room For It!)

Here are the minimum and recommended specs for running BioShock Infinite PC. We can’t say for sure whether you should run the game on PC, as opposed to Xbox 360 or PS3. But, judging by how good the first 4 1/2 hours of the game are, we recommend your run it on something These specs…

The Latest Batch Of Steam Greenlight Games Includes Leisure Suit Larry

Lewd adventure game Leisure Suit Larry and the funny parody DLC Quest are among the latest batch of Steam Greenlight games, announced by Valve today. These are games (and non-games!) voted by the community to receive coveted spots on Valve’s digital distribution service. Here’s Valve in a press release: Valve today revealed the fourth set…

If you play the currently-Kickstarting game Wildman as a female character, the game will rename itself “Wildwoman.”

5 Things You Should Know About The Borderlands 2 DLC That Came Out Today

[Editor’s note: Below follows our impressions of Sir Hammerlock’s Big Game Hunt, which releases today. I played the add-on content roughly a month ago, finishing all the main quests and a handful of side quests. This article has also been updated with the new launch trailer.] We’re up to our third campaign add-on for September’s…

Ron Gilbert’s The Cave will be released on January 22nd for PSN & Wii U, and January 23rd for XBLA & Steam. Only a week!

Sweet Pixel Graphics Can’t Save This Game from Collectible Card Banality

It takes something special to get me invested in one of the wave of mobile collectible card games seeking to ride on the overwhelming success of Rage of Bahamut—it took Transformers to get me to appreciate the appeal of the genre. With its eye-catching pixelated style, DeNA’s D.O.T. Defenders of Texel threatened to be the…

6 GIFS of Raiden Looking Cool in Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance

Mr. Gergő Vas is at it again, taking a slick new gaming trailer and boiling it down to several stellar GIFs. His subject today is the newest trailer for next month’s Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance Show us some GIFs, Gergő! Here’s the full trailer. The game will be out on February 19 for the PS3…

Bake Shop Drop is Not a Game to Play If You’re Counting Calories

A drop-based matching game recently launched on Facebook from Broken Bulb Game Studios, Bake Shop Drop is an addictive little game that has me quite conflicted—do I play another round, or run to the store for cupcakes? The pieces are frosted cake slices, sprinkled doughnuts, chocolate chip cookies and red velvet cupcakes. The power-ups are…

The Video Games That Showed Up When I Least Expected Them

A controller gets put down. A disc gets shelved next to dozens of others just like it. But, sometimes, the game lingers. It creeps into your sleep and live on in the backs of your eyelids, demanding ever more from you. Here’s an example: the one night that the crazy nocturnal zombies from Alan Wake…

Superhero fighting game Injustice: Gods Among Us is out April 16, Warner Brothers just announced. 360, PS3, Wii U.

This Game’s Special Edition Comes With A Statue Of A Bikini-Clad, Severed Female Torso

If you are a severed torso fetishist or serial killer, you will undoubtedly be ecstatic to know that one special edition of Dead Island: Riptide comes with the above statue. Fans of bloody female torsos clad in UK flag bikinis can go out and pre-order the “Zombie Bait” edition of Deep Silver’s upcoming open-world action…

The Vita port of Edmund McMillen’s demonic roguelike The Binding of Isaac might look like this. [Twitter]

After 128 Days In Jail, Arma III Developers Finally Get To Go Home

Two game developers from Czech Republic-based Bohemia Interactive (Arma III), who were jailed in Greece for the past 218 days, will finally be able to go home, according to Czech media reports translated on a site dedicated to the men’s release. Ivan Buchta and Martin Pezlar had been facing up to 20 years in prison…

Original Devil May Cry Creator Sticks Up For the New DmC

Game developer Hideki Kamiya of Platinum Games and recent Bayonetta fame will field just about any question on Twitter, whether he’s well-versed on a topic or not. Something he knows a ton about? Devil May Cry games. Kamiya was the director on the original Devil May Cry back in 2001 and a very good authority…

This Week’s iPhone Charts: The Minecraft Connection

Welcome to the all-new, all-improved, all much simpler formatted as to not kill myself every morning weekly app rankings. The ponderous and sloppy image-heavy format has been exchanged for a tasteful table, which makes it much easier to notice things like Minecraft proper and a 2D Minecraft “homage” holding both number two spots in the…