Twenty-Seven Classic Infocom Text Adventures All At Once, All For iOS

The Lost Treasures of Infocom collection is now available for iPad and iPhone, boasting 27 classic adventure games and more than 350 hours of gameplay for a mere $10. I hear what you’re saying, “But Fahey, I can download any or all of these games to my PC and play through them in their entirety…

Gorgeous Games of 2012: Need for Speed: Most Wanted

It’s not easy to idle like this in Need for Speed: Most Wanted the excellent open-world racing game from EA’s Criterion Games. Even at high speeds—well, especially at high speeds—this game was great to look at. That earns Most Wanted a Cinemagraph (a subtly-animating-animated-GIF, if you don’t know) for our Year in Beauty series.

Darksiders, plus Darksiders II, all of its DLC and the season pass (PC) is $13.19 from Amazon, until Friday. [Dealzon]

These Halo 4 Cheaters Might Look Headless, But You Can Still Headshot ‘Em [UPDATE]

If you play Halo 4 multiplayer, chances are you’ve heard about the rumored headless Spartans that you can’t kill. Maybe if you’re unlucky you’ve actually come across these infamous Spartans. One of the popular aspects of this rumor is that the headlessness is actually an extremely high level helmet unlock. But that would be kind…

The Steam Holiday Sale Is Now Live

Stockings ready? Wallets out? Steam’s winter holiday sale has begun Right now there are sales on a whole bunch of franchises, including Hitman, Prince of Persia, and many others. You can get Borderlands 2 for $30, for example. There are also some big publisher bundles: $90 gets you a whole bunch of Bethesda games, including…

FarmVille 2 Crafting Workshop: Everything You Need to Know

As FarmVille 2 continues to grow on Facebook and Zynga.com, many players might have grown restless with the same routine of planting crops and feeding animals. If that’s the case, those same players will be pretty excited with the release of the Crafting Workshop, an entirely new element to gameplay. We’re here with a guide…

The Star Trek video game is out on April 23, 2013. Find out about pre-order perks and more info on the official site

Our 25 Most Popular Stories Of The Year, According to Math

We published a lot of stories this year. You loved some. You hated others. Some were great. Some were arrows Our finest tech people have crunched the numbers and provided me with a list of our top traffic-getters. Below, you can see the 25 stories that drew the most new readers to our site, which,…

EA Mobile’s big holiday sale is go, with more than 100 iPhone and iPad games on sale for $.99 or less.

With NRA Set to Blame Video Games, Conservative Magazine Says Don’t

In America, neither the left nor the right have an exclusive claim on scapegoating violent video games for some societal ill. Both do it in different ways and for different purposes. But tomorrow, the National Rifle Association is expected to blast games and Hollywood in a response to the Newtown, Conn., mass killings last week.…

The Most Fun You Can Have With Pudding Without Somebody Getting Naked

Riding high on the continued success of Cut the Rope, developer ZeptoLab serves up victory pudding, only this pudding doesn’t want to be eaten or smeared on the naked bodies of unpleasant people. Pudding Monsters wants to be free. And who could blame them? Sitting in the fridge day in and day out, fearing the…

It’s Your Last Chance to Win a Prize Pack Worth $1,000 Before the End of the World

Ha, ha, hey, it’s December 20. Spend what might be your last moments on Earth playing Dikembe Mutombo’s 4½ Weeks to Save the World, potentially adding more time to the Mayan Calendar, and potentially winning a $1,000 prize pack — that you’ll actually be able to use because you’ve helped save mankind. Super simple. Play…

Borderlands 2 Will Raise Its Level Cap Early Next Year

IGN today reported that Borderlands 2‘s level cap, currently at 50, will rise sometime in the first three months of next year. It’s not going to come with Sir Hammerlock’s Big Game Hunt, announced and previewed today. 2K Games told IGN that Gearbox Software still is considering whether to do it as part of a…

After Sandy Hook And Virginia Tech, I’m Done With Violent Video Games

I think I am done. I have been an avid gamer since I received my first system—the then-just-released NES—when I was six. From the moment I picked up the light gun and downed my first duck, I was hooked. For nearly 30 years I have squashed anthropomorphic mushrooms, cleaved zombies, and eviscerated the avatars of…

Square Enix Will Bring Final Fantasy V ‘And More’ Games To iOS

At the end of this trailer for Final Fantasy IV—which is out today on iOS for the Square Enix-ish price of $16—there’s a Very Special Teaser. Final Fantasy V! And more! This is very cool, especially if they keep going through the years. While the first four Final Fantasy games have already been re-released seven…

A Rare Arcade Game Killed by an Atari Lawsuit Comes Back to Life After 25 Years

Maybe you’re like me and never heard of 1980s arcade game Meteors. If you guessed that it was a clone of Asteroids, though, you’d be right. The coin-op arcade game stood at the center of a lawsuit aimed by Atari at competitor Amusement World. Video game designer/scholar Ian Bogost runs down the impact of the…

I Admit Defeat. The Icarus Box Has Bested Me.

I have stared and poked at this image for more than an hour over the past two days. I touch it, a red card pops up and a buzzer sounds. I have no idea what to do here, and The Icarus Box isn’t keen to tell me. The Icarus Box is a puzzle/horror/mystery game for…

Man Dressed As Super Mario Arrested For Groping Woman In Times Square

As a general rule, you probably shouldn’t grope people without their permission. But if you’re going to grope people without their permission, you really shouldn’t do it while wearing a Super Mario costume. Damon Torres, a 34-year-old street performer who solicits money by wearing costumes and posing for pictures in New York City’s Times Square,…

Cooking Mama on iOS is reborn as the free Cooking Mama Seasons. Shouldn’t that be Cooking Mama Seasonings?

AVADirect Mini Gaming PC: The Kotaku Review

There are dozens of places to purchase a custom gaming PC on the internet. Companies with colorful websites with flash-animated front pages and rotating images showing off their latest products in the best possible light. Then there’s AVADirect, a custom PC builder on the outskirts of Cleveland with a website that looks like it was…