Taking a Stand Against Sites That Charge for iPhone App Reviews

With dozens of new iPhone and iPad apps popping up on a daily basis, developers are finding it increasingly difficult to get coverage for their latest games. It’s a situation so desperate that several websites selling “expedited” app reviews, a practice mobile developer co-op AppyNation‘s Andrew J. Smith is not particularly fond of. In a…

Three Reasons Most Video Game Movies Don’t Work, and One Why I Hope a Metal Gear Solid Movie Will

Film adaptations of popular games are almost as inevitable as game adaptations of films—and often, just as terrible. Early this morning, we learned that Konami once again have plans to take Metal Gear Solid to the silver screen. The film seems to be in the very early planning stages, so it’s too soon to say…

Super Skyrim Bros. is a Mod That, Well, You Get It, Right?

Skyrim is a very different place when there are Goombas running around it. You can see that for yourself in some clips of Super Skyrim Bros., a wacky mod that’s been quietly in development by a gamer named “clintmich” for the last few months. The first video here went live in early May. Sorry we…

Check out Assassin’s Creed III’s Brutal New Combat in This New Video

Back in the 18th Century, armies had all kinds of polite rules about how they waged war. The American Revolution was won, in part, by breaking those rules with what we know call guerilla warfare. Ubisoft’s developers took inspiration from those old-timey hit-and-run tactics to develop an all-new fighting style for Assassin’s Creed III. The…

Professor Layton Vs. Ace Attorney lives! Little-seen game will be at September’s Tokyo Game Show, says Level 5. Via Dtd

Here’s Your Final Helping of Modern Warfare 3 Downloadable Content

Coming September 6 to the Xbox 360 version of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3, the five new maps of Content Collection 4 (two previously exclusive to Elite Premium members) brings the content season to a close, paving the way for Black Ops 2 You know the drill by now, kids. The Xbox 360 version…

Steam Greenlight—which lets users vote for indie games that they want on Valve’s download service—launches today.

We Love The World’s First Post-Apocalyptic Competitive Eating Card Game

“The game is about eating and spewing and chewing and swallowing,” game designer Zach Gage says in this beginning of this 25-minute video that features me and Evan Narcisse playing Gage’s new card game Guts of Glory. With that, Gage led me and Evan through one of the most fun half-hours of gaming I’ve had…

Xbox Live is supporting Gaymercon, the first-ever gathering dedicated to LBGT video game players

Double Fine’s Next Game Is For iPhone, And It’s About Superheroes

Being a superhero is exciting, no doubt about it. You get to wear a cool costume, use cool powers, and fight crime! But what about the nitty gritty bureaucratic aspects of being a superhero—the paperwork, the scheduling, all the stuff behind the scenes? Surely someone’s got to take care of that, as well. Enter Middle…

Apple Blocks App That Alerts Users to American Military Drone Strikes

iPhone apps exist for all sorts of purposes: games and media to entertain, file viewers and creation programs for productivity, news for information on the world around you. To creator Josh Begley, Drone+—which lets people know about American UAV attacks—fits the bill for that last type of app. Nevertheless, Apple has rejected his creation from…

Powerful Mobile Destruction Physics Dedicated to Beating Up a Poor Old Woman

The rollerskating Granny Smith is a spry old bird. She has to be, as developer Mediocre has dedicated substatial technology towards beating the living hell out of her. Granny Smith falls from great heights onto her back, her intense pain communicated through the loss of the large gold coins she’s collected. She jumps off of…

Gold Vs. Plus: How Sony Is Making a Mockery Of Xbox Live

You can pick your preference between PlayStation and Xbox. You can argue that Halo is better than KillZone or that Uncharted tops Gears of War But it is becoming increasingly hard to argue that the Xbox 360’s online subscription service is superior to the PlayStation 3’s. This is what competition does, and, today, the long-running…

Hooray, Darksiders II‘s Janky PC Version Is Now Substantially Less Janky

Good news: true to their word, Vigil has issued the first update for the PC version of Darksiders II, addressing a number of problems players have had with that version of the game. Among the fixes: easier key-mapping, in-game crashes, and crucially, the broken v-sync, which resulted in unfixable screen-tearing for some (but not all)…

This Long-Lost Nintendo Knitting Machine Would Have Let You Make Sweaters With Your NES

Nintendo launched several peripherals for the NES back in the 1980s. Most of us remember, or at least heard of, the power glove and the light gun. But then, there were the stranger attempts, like Nintendo Knitting Machine, designed to help you make those oh-so-delightful ’80s sweaters. And no, I am not making this up.…

Fable: The Journey Might Be the Next Kinect Game Worth Caring About

I’m not really anti-Kinect. It’s just that a lot of Kinect games really suck. But I absolutely love Dance Central and Fruit Ninja Kinect is always a hit with my non-gaming friends when they come over for after-partying. But those hits are few and far between. I wasn’t expecting to enjoy Fable: The Journey. For…

In This Week’s Nintendo Download, Meet the Majestic Animals of Africa. Then Shoot Them.

In Africa Unleashed 3D for the Nintendo 3DS you charged into Africa to hunt wild animals like the leopard, rhino and elephant, bringing more than 30 weapons to bear on 15 different types of wild beast. Shouldn’t this be called Hunter Unleashed 3D? Granted I don’t believe any of the animals roaming deepest Africa are…

Forza Horizon Takes Racing Simulations To The Open Road World

The next Forza game is set in an open world. Wait, what? Yes, it’s an open world modeled after Colorado. And smack in the middle of the game’s setting is a racing festival that you will partake in when Forza Horizon releases October 23 for Xbox 360. This won’t be all of Colorado, mind you.…

Here’s the First Look at Whore of the Orient, the Next Game from the Makers of L.A. Noire

Brendan McNamara’s most recent game had players exploring the seamy underbelly of an impressive, gleaming recreation of 1940s Los Angeles with L.A. Noire. The first glimpse at his next game—being produced with director George Miller’s film production firm KMM Interactive—the grime is all out in the open. Despite the fact that McNamara’s Team Bondi was…

Escape from Aliens: Colonial Marines at PAX Prime

Sometimes you stand and fight. Aliens: Colonial Marines new Escape multiplayer mode, debuting this weekend at PAX Prime, is not one of those times. PAX attendees, including our own Tina, Jason and Kirk, will have the chance to try their hand at some player-driven survival horror multiplayer this weekend, as a team of four Colonial…