Hey, Darth Vader, the Empire has just been sold for $4 billion. What are you gonna do next? Official Disney video.

Japanese Publisher Accused of Trying a “Hostile Takeover” of Indie Studio

Small indie studio Checkpoint had a deal with Japanese publishers Marvelous to release two games by the end of 2012. Those titles, AviNation and Party Politics, are both now out But according to a report on Gamasutra, Checkpoint’s CEO, Brian Wiklem, has filed a suit against Marvelous, claiming that instead of forking over payments for…

Happy Halloween! Check out the new The Ghouls ‘n Ghosts EP by Mega Ran and Richie Branson.

Midweek Moneysaver: Hell, Yes, We Still Have a Midweek Moneysaver

Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night, nor a prolonged datacenter outage, stays the couriers of Dealzon from the swift completion of their appointed rounds. Forty-one savings, bargains and deals from the height of the fall release calendar await you below in this week’s Tumblrsaver! Software • Yesterday’s release Assassin’s Creed 3…

Scary Games And I Do Not Get Along. I’ll Stick With The Cuter Side of Halloween.

Tonight, Halloween night, isn’t just for trick-or-treating or parties and dances. It’s the perfect time of year to turn down the lights, turn up the speakers, and play the hell out of a scary game. Except that horror games and I, well, we don’t mix well at all. I don’t do spooky and scary. The…

Well, This is a Weird Excuse For Not Having Women in Your Video Game

The brutally enjoyable Chivalry: Medieval Warfare is set in, duh, medieval times. If one was to ask the developers of the game why you can’t play as a female soldier, the answer should have been “because there weren’t any”. But when a fan asked the question of Steve “Tibberius” Piggott, boss of developers Torn Banner,…

Persona 4 Golden‘s New Battle Music Rules

The advance press copies of Persona 4 Golden for the PSVita unlocked yesterday, and I’ve been playing the game it with every free hour I’ve had since then. The soundtrack, by Shōji Meguro, is so good I can’t stand it. The Vita version also has a bunch of new stuff from the original PS2 game,…

One Does Not Simply Frequent-Fly Into Mordor

Created by Air New Zealand and WETA Workshop, the folks who do all sorts of production design for The Hobbit, which comes out in just a month (!), this might be the best air safety video I’ve ever seen. Watch out for a Peter Jackson appearance, too.

Need for Speed: Most Wanted Has Great Cutscenes

In my review of Need For Speed: Most Wanted, I mentioned how the game has these wicked-cool little videos that play before every race. There are a lot, and they’re great. I grabbed one to give you a sense of what I’m talking about. I particularly love how none of the in-game events start out…

A Hurricane Warning from 1996, Still Unheeded

“Here. Right here,” he said, almost triumphantly. “He said it would be right fucking here.” I was a reporter for The Daily News of Jacksonville, N.C. He was the science writer for The Charlotte Observer, back when a newspaper that size could staff such a position. It was Sept. 6, 1996, the morning after Hurricane…

Damn, Guys… You Are Sporting Some Impressive Halloween Costumes

Click to view When Evan asked you all to share your Halloween costumes with us, you did not mess around. I’m blown away by the originality of some of these, and the extensive detail on a lot of these. You should all be very proud, and excited to show them off this Halloween night.

Bash Zombie Heads in with a Wrench in The Dead Linger

One of the cool things about PC gaming is the opportunity to get in on interesting games before they’re even finished and try them out. Many of us started playing Minecraft back when it was far from the polished experience it is today-there’s just something cool about poking around in an unfinished game. But even…

Seven Reviewers Love Zooming Around In Circles In Need for Speed: Most Wanted

Do you have a strong desire to go fast? A veritable need for speed, perhaps? Reviewers worldwide have raced madly through a Fairhaven mainly devoid of normality, but chock-full of cars, cops, and crashes. Even the single-player in Need for Speed: Most Wanted is an asynchronous multiplayer and the rules of both is “go fast”…

Dress up your Fighter in Tekken Tag Tournament 2

Take a look at the exclusive Paint Mode in the Wii U version of Tekken Tag Tournament 2. Players use the Wii U control pad screen to draw their own costume designs. Sexy Panda!

I Just Got the Hurricane Sandy Edition of a PS3 Game

I’ll be honest: I never really dug Guerilla Games’ Killzone titles. They never really lived up to the Halo-killer hype that accompanied them and never stood out from the FPS landscape in a way that, say, Insomniac’s Resistance games did. Killzone 3 didn’t get very high marks from me. But this waterlogged Killzone Trilogy will…

Create and Share Your Own 3D Browser-Based Games with Gameglobe

Gameglobe is a place where everyday folks like you and me can play, create and share unique 3D games (like that one up top) with people all over the world. Square Enix and Bigpoint have just launched the site’s open beta, so it’s game on for everybody. Just head over to Gameglobe.com, sign up for…

Assassin’s Creed III’s Multiplayer Isn’t Evil. It’s Just Pretending.

As good as the the single player portion of Assassin’s Creed III is, the designers of the game’s multiplayer deserve credit for crafting one of the year’s best gaming jokes-and for maybe getting the last laugh. They’ve taken some of the most obnoxious things about modern gaming, and they’ve twisted them. In fact, they’ve damn…

Jalopnik Updates

jalopnikupdates: This Amazing Time Lapse Video Shows Sandy’s Assault On New York And The Moment The Lights Went Out A camera on top of 2 Northside Piers shows New York before Sandy rolled in, its destructive approach, and the sudden loss of power as the storm surge flooded lower Manhattan. This is the best angle…

Watch The Halloween Trailer For Sony’s Puppeteer

Interesting, no? Reminds me of Nightmare Before Christmas. For more on this PS3 game, head over to the PlayStation Blog

Link’s Not the Only One Who Plays the Ocarina

Sure, Link was okay at ocarina, but he was just a little kid. It’s pretty fun to watch someone who can really play the thing. Here’s ocarina diva Cris Gale playing the Koume and Kotake/Twinrova Theme from Ocarina of Time. You can find about more about Gale at her website, and get her album on…