Join Dikembe Mutombo, a Sweater-Wearing Bear, and a Random Turkey in Their Quest to Prevent the Apocalypse

According to the Mayan Calendar, we are all hurtling toward inescapable destruction. On December 21, the world will cease to be. What better way to help prevent the apocalypse than to join former NBA player and current Old Spice Champion Dikembe Mutombo in his quest to add more time to the calendar? Three whole levels…

Feminist Game Critic On Her Online Attackers: They Cast Me ‘in the Role of the Villain’

The woman behind Feminist Frequency hasn’t been shy about sharing stories of the harassment she’s gotten while trying to create Tropes vs. Women in Video Games. Anita Sarkeesian’s goal of examining how women get portrayed in video games won her lots of enemies but, according to her, they thought of themselves as heroes. In this…

Can You Guess Which Of These Bioshock Infinite Influences Are Legit?

I love reading about what sorts of things influence people. I don’t know if I’d ever truly understand or approach genius myself, but the next best thing is to look at the things that inspire it. Then I can only wonder how people can take such random, disparate things and make them into art. It’s…

Zynga’s CoasterVille: A Complete Guide to the First 10 Quests

Zynga‘s CoasterVille has finally launched on Facebook, an outlet for players to build the theme park of their dreams, complete with customizable roller coasters, plenty of attractions, stalls and much more. To help you get started, we’re here with a complete look at the game’s first 10 quests, along with some tips. To start, you’ll…

Watch Four Of This Year’s Biggest Video Game Characters Beat Each Other Down

The action and fighting in this live action video is pretty fun. It’s just too bad they made Cortana so robotic and Lee so out of character. I have to commend Max for that nice trigger finger. He keeps it steady until the very last second. In the video above is also Connor from Assassin’s…

What It’s Like to Play a Game About Someone Else’s Dreams

Dreams are such personal things. No matter how vividly you describe them, it’s hard to put someone in your shoes, to convey the utter weirdness of dreams. Telling never works: It’s about the experience. Which is why LSD: Dream Emulator gets it so right. In the video above, I discuss the Playstation cult classic LSD:Dream…

Come for the Unintentional Call of Duty Parody, Stay for the Stellar Multiplayer

In early 2011, Epic Games released Duty Calls, a Call of Duty parody game that made fun of the military shooter in order to promote the release of Bulletstorm. The story mode for Modern Combat 4: Zero Hour is ten times as funny, only I’m pretty sure it wasn’t meant to be. Modern Combat 4…

Skulk, Stab and Speed Through Dishonored’s Dunwall City Trials Trailer

Revenge may solve everything, according to Dishonored‘s marketing spiel. But it doesn’t fill the burning need to teleport, slow down time or possess enemies once you’ve finished Arkane’s masterpiece. Thankfully, DLC that lets you craft more gloriously choreographed kills hits next week. Get your glimpse of the Dunwall City Trials in the video above.

I Can Relate To Too Many Of These Dumb Ways To Die In Video Games

When you think about it, there really are a ton of dumb ways to die in video games. Megasteakman uploaded this song yesterday to poetically put all of those death scenarios into one video. How many can you relate to?

Beeline’s Smurf Life (possibly Thug Life) is now available for free on iTunes. Unleash your inner Smurf!

Why David Petraeus Will Never Be a Strategy Game General

David Petraeus would not have gone down in history as a great general, even if he had been able to keep his zipper zipped. Certainly not great enough for the retired Army four-star general and former commander of coalition forces in Iraq and Afghanistan to merit appearing in a strategy game. It is true that…

Knightly Adventure Comes to Android Just in Time for the Holiday Update

Free-to-play cross-platform action role-playing game Knightly Adventure has been capturing the hearts of iOS and Facebook players since its November 8 launch. Now developer Pangalore takes on Android, with the help of a little holiday spirit. Nothing says “Merry Christmas” like a witch, right? Okay, so maybe the timing on the new premium Witch character…

Captain America Reminds Iron Man That He Knows How to Actually Fight in This Week’s Nintendo Download

Look, I know that the Iron Man movies ushered in a new wave of Marvel cinematic dominance. But Tony Stark isn’t in charge of things in that superhero universe. Captain America is. He’s got actual battlefield experience and a rank in his codename. In this brave new era of Nintendo embracing all things online, full…

Compete In A Halo 4 Tournament For One Of 2,800 Prizes During Spartan Ops’ Mid-Season Break

Today 343 Industries announced a partnership with Virgin Gaming to host their Halo 4 Infinity Challenge, a free-to-enter tournament in lieue of Spartan Ops updates during the almost month-long mid-season break. You can register online for a shot at one of 2,800 prizes, including the grand prize of a 343-designed Ford Raptor truck modeled to…

For the Honor of Grayskull, She-Ra Has the Power, Not That She Deserves It

How does one improve upon the most powerful game in the universe? By unleashing the most powerful game update in the universe, featuring Princess Adora and her magical horse. Princess Adora of course transforms into She-Ra, the marketing product of a much simpler time, when capturing the hearts of little girls was as easy as…

The Year’s Worst Bullshots, aka, Screenshots That Lied To You

It was back in 2005 that Penny Arcade first coined the term “bullshot”, giving a definition to the practice of doctoring video game screenshots to make them look better than the game actually is. You’d think the intervening seven years, the rise of the video trailer and a growing awareness of the practice would have…

Japanese Anime Fans Are Growing Tired Of These Tropes

The anime industry, while not as strong as it was back in 2004-2006, is still booming. During any given week, there will be between 30 to 50 series airing (not counting reruns) on TV, generally during the late hours of night. Most series run for about 11-13 episodes (A few will go between 24-26 episodes).…

Hako! Open Me, AR puzzle game for the Vita, will be out on Dec. 20 in Japan as a download.

Developers Of These Free Games Aren’t Looking for Quick, Easy Cash

Free to play. Free. To. Play. Sounds good, but watch the fine print. With most games these days, when something is free, you tend to get what you pay for. Generally, you’ll end up getting a fraction of the actual game with the rest being either unattainable or incredibly hard to get to without pulling…

What’s Bringing China and Japan Back Together? Pornography, Apparently.

This fall, tensions between China and Japan got serious. A dispute over islands stirred up nationalistic demonstrations in China. Protestors didn’t just take to the streets to voice their anti-Japanese sentiment. Some of them took to their hard drives. According to Japanese daily Nikkan Spa!, during those protests, websites that shared pirated clips and videos…