This Image Encapsulates Far Cry 3‘s Bummer Screen-Clutter

Far Cry 3 is a really, really good game. One of the year’s best, I’d wager. I’ve had so much fun with it that I’m playing it again, just for the heck of it, and shooting for 100% completion. One of my big gripes, however, is the unfortunate amount of screen clutter. The problem is…

Great Value Golden Crème Cakes: The Snacktaku Review

The mediation has failed, and Hostess is closing its doors for good, selling off its popular brands to the highest bidders. Now that the initial panic has subsided it’s time for clearer heads to prevail. The end of the Twinkie as a Hostess product is not the end of all golden sponge cakes. There is…

Developer’s tweet about Hotline Miami 2 soundtrack reveals existence of Hotline Miami 2

The Dorkly Weekly: Redditaur I Choose You! Use Memequake!

Today Dorkly asks, “What if the world’s most popular websites were Pokemon?” Ash probably would have had a hard time collecting all of those gym badges with Pornotubeon at his side. If you could carry around any website in a ball in your pocket, bringing it out whenever you pleased to rollick and play a…

Hardcore Social: No One is Safe From the Bloodthirsty Hordes of Citizen Grim

I was not planning to spend an hour shooting and bludgeoning zombies to death on Facebook, yet here we are. I wandered over to Zynga.com to grab a screenshot of FarmVille for today’s winners and losers post, and there was the image for Eruptive Entertainment’s Citizen Grim, all darkness and evil and flames and pretty…

First Came The Interview About This Unusual Wii U Indie Game, Then Came The Drama

This morning, I saw someone tweet an article called “Gaming Journalism versus Nintendo.” Catchy enough headline. I had to check that one out. The article, written for the website Not Enough Shaders by a writer named Emily Rogers, levied a number of accusations at a large gaming website that was not named. (The article has…

Quadriplegic Gamer Pulls Off Some of Mass Effect 3’s Hardest Multiplayer Feats All By Himself

You need to kill hundreds of enemies to win a silver-level Mass Effect 3 multiplayer match. Heck, even with multiple players, it takes serious teamwork to make sure everybody survives. So, it’s already impressive that Alain Poitras won out in the Silver and Bronze level runs in the video above. But when you consider the…

ZombiU: The Kotaku Review

I would like to tell you that the butler did it, but he did not. Alfie White, the zombie-killing butler, was going to save rotted London. He shot zombies, whacked some of them to death with a cricket bat and got awfully close to finding a possible zombie cure. But he failed. And then he…

The Official Oreo iPhone Game Isn’t Nearly as Bad as It Should Be

The rise of mobile phone games has done wonders for the normally dark and seedy world of advergaming. With Oreo Twist, Lick, Dunk, PikPok has created an interactive advertisement I’ve actually wanted to play more than once. The setup is pretty simple: Oreo cookies fly into the air. One swipe twists the tops off. The…

On December 4th, return to the iconic Roscoe Street Subway in the new Max Payne 3 DLC, Painful Memories

The Best Things In Video Games Are Broken

I finally saw Wreck-It Ralph over the Thanksgiving break. It was heartwarming, delightful, charming. It nudged at some big-name titles in ways that made me giggle and nod in recognition. It covered the bases of a handful of video game tropes. It made jokes in the form of clever puns and cute character behavior. But…

Black Ops II for Wii U looks nice, but falls short on framerate according to the people at Digital Foundry.

ChefVille Ranch Requests Quests: Everything You Need to Know

It sure is fun to cook on ChefVille‘s many appliances, especially now that we have a Mayonnaise Dispenser for sandwiches and a Cranberry Crate for Thanksgiving dishes. But there’s still a noteworthy lack of access to ranch in our restaurants. Tons of dishes require Ranch Dressing, and yet it’s one of the most ingredient-heavy items…

There Are Now as Many as 400,000 Wii U Owners In North America

It’s been just over a week since Nintendo ushered in the next-generation of home console hardware with the launch of the Wii U. In that time, the new device has sold 400,000 units. CNET reports that the Wii U just edged out the Wii, which sold 300,000 units in the same time frame. When the…

iPad Video Games Just About Killed Homer Simpson Last Night

People like to hate on The Simpsons these days, but I still find Fox’s iconic cartoon show enjoyable, if not always super timely. See: this clip of Homer discovering iPad games, from the episode that aired last night. If you missed last night’s, Hulu has new Simpsons eps on a regular basis. It should be…

Do Video Games Make Depression Worse?

Until recently, I had never considered the idea that my gaming habit, which could charitably be described as heavy, could be harmful to my mental health. It wasn’t just that I dismissed that idea; the idea had never popped into my head. But as psychological professionals debate whether or not “gaming addiction” should be listed…

Let’s Face It, The Best Bits Are the 8-Bits

From around the age of seven, I saw the world in 8bit color. The Nintendo Entertainment System was more than a revelation for my young eyes. It was a revolution. Even now, I love the look of 8-bit, those stark and sometimes saturated blocky colors. I love it so much that I downloaded this 8-bit…

Square Enix’s Latest Mobile Puzzler is a Delirious Whirlwind of Exploded Pixels

The creators of Motley Blocks painstakingly crafted a series of 80 simple images using colored cubes, creating a collection of nifty 3D pixel art covering a variety of subjects. Then they blew them all up, and you have to put them back together. So much work, this mobile gaming. Each level in Motley Blocks begins…

Here’s the Trailer for Mass Effect 3’s Omega DLC

The new single-player add-on for BioWare’s hit sci-fi threequel hits tomorrow and this video shows off new female Turian character Nyreen and some of the new enemies you’ll be facing down. It’ll be nice giving Aria some orders that she’ll have to follow for once.

Had Enough Cowbell? But Wait, There’s Cowbell Hero

Who’s ready for a game based on a five-year-old joke about a Saturday Night Live skit from twelve years ago? Thanks to the magic of the iPhone and iPad, Cowbell Hero becomes a real thing next month. I would be incredibly disappointed with Digital Hero Games (via PocketGamer) for making Cowbell Hero if they hadn’t…