Rapper Jean Grae’s great new song Kill Screen riffs off Donkey Kong and Steve Wiebe. Take a listen over at MTV.

Hey Console Gamers, Ready For Some “Free”-to-Play Games? (Note: They’re Not Exactly Free)

If you had a job as a video game reporter, you’d not be able to inhale and exhale your way through a day without sniffing the excitement powerful people in the gaming industry have for “free to play” games. These are games that are free for anyone to start playing but then require you to…

Layoffs have hit Disney Interactive, according to The Hollywood Reporter

Square Enix Has A New RPG Out For iOS Today

Just in case you were worried that Square Enix hasn’t released enough pricey mobile games over the past few weeks, here’s another! Above is a trailer for Drakerider, a new RPG for iOS and Android. [Update: Apparently Square Enix is only releasing the game on iOS in the U.S.] You can download the first chapter…

How To Play FarmVille 2 Without Pissing Off Your Friends

Nobody likes a Facebook spammer. You know, those people who you went to high school with but haven’t talked to in ten years who seem to do nothing but water their FarmVille crops and maintain their CityVille cities. They’re the worst! Zynga’s newest game, FarmVille 2, launched yesterday. I may not be totally sold on…

Kickstarter Pulls In More Money For Games Than For Almost Anything Else

People giving money to Kickstarter projects love games. How much do they love them? According to Kickstarter’s number crunchers, over $50 million dollars over the last eight months have gone to games campaigns. That’s more money than has gone to film, tech or music projects. Now, it’s not just digital games that are getting all…

Here’s How To Avoid A Major Bug In Skyrim: Hearthfire

Just a heads up: I’ve experienced a significant bug in Skyrim‘s newest downloadable content that seems to be avoidable. When you get your plot of land in Hearthfire, you’ll be using two major devices: the drafting table and the carpenter’s workbench. At the drafting table, you can select blueprints for buildings and wings in your…

Fallout 3 Modding Gone Wrong Is Downright Terrifying

Looks like someone mistook facial features for wall textures. Oops! Was modding my fallout 3 game. Think I messed up somewhere. [Reddit]

PC Gaming Studio Said She Ruined Their Game, But Only After She Sued The Boss For Sexual Harassment [UPDATE 2: Cases Dismissed, Motivation And Timing Of Suits Disputed]

UPDATE 2: Both cases discussed in this story were dismissed in September of 2013, with Alexandra Miseta apologizing for bringing her suit against Brad Wardell. Read that full update here Elemental: War of Magic was not a rousing success of a game. The August, 2010 strategy title was a buggy, muddled mess at launch that…

You’ll Be Able to Make a Blind Man Kick Butt When the Marvel Heroes Beta Stars on October 1

Raise your hands if Daredevil’s your favorite superhero. And don’t lie because Matt Murdock’s super-senses will figure it out. Then you get a billy club to the head. That would hurt. What doesn’t hurt is seeing Elektra, Bullseye and the Punisher showing up in this new gameplay trailer for Gazillion’s upcoming superhero MMO. You’ll finally…

You Probably Can’t Last 30 Seconds In Super Hexagon, But Buy It Anyway.

After two weeks of careful study, I have determined that Super Hexagon is the bullriding of video games. It may not look it. It may look and sound like an old Atari game that fell through a timewarp and re-emerged on the iTunes store today. But it is, in fact, an experience that will break…

Rayman Jungle Run Brings an All-New Bunch of Lush Cartooniness to Mobile in September

The visuals for last year’s Rayman Origins were a feast for the eyes. Its soundtrack was super-awesome, too. Who could play something that fun, that pretty, that sonically inspired and not want more. Not me, dammit. So I’m excited that the limbless wonder will headlining an all-new mobile game that looks exactly like Origins Out…

Bust Your Neck On 36 New Trials Evolution Tracks

Today Ubisoft teased the Origin of Pain DLC pack coming to Trials Evolution this fall on XBLA for 400 Microsoft Points. If the user-generated maps weren’t enough for you, this DLC pack brings you 36 new tracks, as well as new editor objects to play around with and a new BMX bike to ride around…

Let’s See All The Cool New Stuff In The StarCraft II: Heart of the Swarm Beta

This is what I’m doing today while I wait for Blizzard to extend me an invitation to the beta for StarCraft II: Heart of the Swarm. Watching other people play StarCraft II: Heart of the Swarm Here’s Husky, one of my favorite YouTubers and one of the best announcers in eSports, playing and talking over…

PS2 KillzoneIs Getting an HD Upgrade For PS3

Sony will release a boxed set of all three console Killzone games on October 23 for $40, the company revealed today, saying the first one, which was made for the PlayStation 2, will be getting a 720p upgrade. This is just the latest in PS3 bundles. Previously, Sony has sold God of War, Ratchet &…

See the Origins of Dishonored’s Awesomely Ominous Game Design in This New Trailer

Dishonored is promising a lot. The upcoming first-person game from Arkane Studios will supposedly offer up its stealth, strategy and combat options in accordance to how you want to play the game. In this new trailer, Arkane leads Harvey Smith and Rafaël Colantonio are joined by their fellow creators to talk about making Dishonored‘s world…

This Week’s Nintendo Download Travels Back in Time For A Classic Version of Prince of Persia. Also: Goat-Stacking.

Listen, I love Prince of Persia. With all that lovely animation and derring-do, Jordan Mechner’s adventure games are well-loved for good reason. For those wanting to re-visit PoP’s charms, the Wii Virtual Console get the 1992 SNES version. But, guys: this Crazy Hunter game that appears in this week’s Nintendo Download looks absolutely bizarre. Apparently…

Skyrim‘s New DLC Is Great—If You Like Doing Chores

There are four types of video game players, says Richard Bartle: the Explorer, the Socializer, the Killer, and the Achiever. The names are rather self-explanatory: the Explorer loves to wander; the Socializer loves to chat; the Killer loves to compete; and the Achiever loves to rack up points and trophies, even when they might seem…

Mike Fahey is out this morning! So in his place, there’s this. Go to 5:14—watch it!

A Game with Truly Ugly Characters Is a 3DS Hit

Kobito Dukan, those ugly troll characters, got their own 3DS game. And that game had insane box art. And the game itself looked okay, fun even as you attempt to catch those little characters and make your own field guide. But those little characters? They look like a dog’s breakfast. But as fugly as the…