$30 Assassin’s Creed III Season Pass Will Add Evil George Washington Alternate-History Campaign

In a twist from previous Assassin’s Creed post-release plans, the creators of Assassin’s Creed III are going to let players download what seems like a massive alternate-history expansion to the game’s campaign. A $30 “season pass”, announced today, will get you a large single-player add-on called The Tyranny of King George. It will be delivered…

The Games You’ve Played Most On Steam

Have you spent an embarrassing number of hours playing Team Fortress 2? Wasted way too much of your life on late-night Civ marathons? Let’s see some proof. We want you to come show off your most ridiculous Steam stats. We’ll start with a few of our own. Above you can get a peek at Luke’s…

Conan, What is Best on iPad? God of Blades’ Endless Slashing Comes Pretty Close.

I loved Conan comics as a kid. Every swordfight the Cimmerian had with another warrior ratcheted up an incredible amount of tension in my teenage heart. It’s not that I ever thought about Conan losing. Rather, it was the idea that so much depended on the steel and sinews of Robert E. Howard’s famous barbarian.…

The defunct NBA Live 13 was supposed to be out today on Xbox Live, says Microsoft’s Major Nelson

Justin Bieber Is A Playable Basketball Pro In NBA 2K13, For Some Reason

I’m not sure why such a thing as this exists, but it does. Justin Bieber—yes, that Justin Bieber, beloved of 5th-grade girls nationwide—is a playable character in NBA 2K13. YouTube user DallasCowboys94Ware has done the world the favor of putting together this saga of Bieber’s trials and tribulations on the court, complete, of course, with…

Play This Facebook Game, Help Animals in Need

Sojo Studios’ Facebook game WeTopia has generated more than $500,000 for children’s charities since its launch in November of last year. Now the developer extends its philanthropy-enabling formula to needy animals with Joy Kingdom, a fun free way to turn your social game obsession into happy critters. A lot of people say that Facebook games…

Old-School Game Creators Want A Million Bucks (Or Two) To Make An Old-School RPG (Or Two)

Brenda Brathwaite made Wizardry, among other classic role-playing games. Tom Hall made Anachronox. They and their indie team at Loot Drop want to make a new throwback role-playing game, and they’ve posted one hell of a Kickstarter to convince you to pay them to make the game. And if you give them two million dollars,…

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If You Buy Resident Evil 6 On PSN, Don’t Download The Patch

By most accounts, Resident Evil 6 isn’t very good. But if you are playing it—and if you plan to buy it digitally on the PS3’s PlayStation Network—don’t download the day-one patch. A few gamers in Europe contacted IGN yesterday to report issues with their copies of Capcom’s new survival-horror game. In a statement, Capcom confirmed…

Survarium Developers Talk About Stopping Cheaters Even Though Their Game Isn’t Out Yet

The next game from the folks who once made the S.T.A.L.K.E.R. titles won’t be out for a while, but they already know that people will be trying to exploit it. They’ve got plans to stop those ne’er-do-wells. In the video above, you’ll get a look at how Survarium is coming along, with info on the…

Resident Evil 6 Vs. Gears of War 3: A Slide-by-Slide Comparison

Some people may have noticed that Resident Evil 6 is a bit more like a modern Gears of War game than it’s like a classic Resident Evil game. Is that because you can now run and shoot at the same time? Is it because you’re now in explosive adventures in a game that feels more…

PlayStation Mobile Launches Today with 21 Exciting Games for Vita and PS-Certified Devices

Sony’s mobile gaming push goes live today, making the PlayStation Vita much more attractive and justifying the purchase of PlayStation Certified Android devices with 21 bite-sized games. Let’s see what’s in store! Rolling out across Japan, the United States, Canada, United Kingdom, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, and Australia today, PlayStation Mobile is a platform that…

Breaking Bad, Now in Awesome Action Figure Form

Trevor Grove – who works at collectible giants Sideshow – has spent some spare time recently doing exactly what he does 9-5. Only this time instead of sci-fi movie stars or video game characters, he’s sculpting Breaking Bad’s Walter White. He’s done three figures in all, with the bodies cannibalised from Hot Toys pieces, with…

These Burgers Aren’t Just Huge, They’ve Got Puns

As part of its fortieth anniversary, Japanese burger chain Lotteria is rolling out two burger towers: one is a cheeseburger tower, and the other a fried shrimp burger. Where the hell are the puns, you ask. The name of the cheeseburger is actually “Super Cheese Day” (スーパー・チーズデー), which sounds like “Super Tuesday” (スーパー・チューズデー) in Japanese.…

Japan’s Biggest Gamer Idol Isn’t Thrilled with Resident Evil 6, Either

Add Haruna Anno, retro game idol and retro game museum curator, to the chorus of cries saying that Resident Evil has lost the plot. Anno notes how Resident Evil is (er, was) the pinnacle of survival horror, and she seems upset that the series has gone from a survival horror game to a shooting game.…

Watch as This Bus Is Covered in Glorious Nerd

You know how hard it is to cover something in stickers? Like how to get the stickers just right, so they are totally smooth, straight, and free of air pockets? This is like that, but bigger. And on a city bus. A fleet of buses is getting “wrapped” for the “Machi Asobi” otaku (geek) event…

It’s Not Everyday Someone Introduces a Love Doll on Japanese TV

Japanese variety show Waratte Iitomo! (“It’s Okay to Laugh!”) is the longest running, continuously hosted live program in the world. It’s a cultural institution in Japan, and its host, Tamori, is iconic—like the Milton Berle of Japan. And today on that show, guest Lily Franky brought a special guest: his girlfriend, a love doll. Lily…

This Anti-China Protest in Tokyo Looks…Orderly

Last month, rioting broke out in China during a rash of anti-Japan protests. While those protests got plenty of news coverage in Japan, the country’s own protests haven’t. Perhaps the networks are worried footage of such protests would further fan the flames in China… YouTube user Gimmeaflakeman (via Japan Probe) has uploaded footage of a…

Hot Pants and Panda Heads: Welcome’s to China’s Mists of Pandaria Inferno

In World of Warcraft‘s latest expansion, Mists of Pandaria, there’s a new race of panda people called Pandaren. Last week in Beijing, there was a flash mob of thirty ladies dressed as Pandaren, reports Xinhuanet. That apparently means hot pants and panda hats. Yes, this was a stunt to promote the expansion pack, with the…

Don’t Be Surprised by a Kingdom Hearts 2 HD Remake

At this year’s Tokyo Game Show, Square Enix announced a high definition remake of the first Kingdom Hearts, Kingdom Hearts Re: Chain of Memories, and Kingdom Hearts 358/2 Days. It’s called Kingdom Hearts HD 1.5 ReMIX. In the upcoming leaked issue of Famitsu, Kingdom Hearts designer Tetsuya Nomura was apparently asked whether or not there…