L4D2 is free to play for one weekend (starting this Thursday). New achievement added for long-time players.

This New Professor Layton Commercial Is So Bad It’s Kinda Good

It comes full circle! What is it with Nintendo and Penelope Cruz, by the way? Do they have some sort of Penelope Cruz commercial quota to hit this year? Genuinely curious.

Two Creators Frustrated With The Legend of Zelda Are Bringing You a Great-Looking Graphic Novel

Some people felt like Skyward Sword soared. Others felt like the latest entry in Nintendo’s Legend of Zelda series was saddled with annoying issues. Even current steward Eiji Aonuma feels like changes may need to happen to the long-running franchise. While the impact of these mixed feelings on the next Zelda game is a long…

Medal of Honor‘s Most Annoying Bug Makes My Soldiers Stop Caring

“Hurry up and wait.” It’s a common phrase used in the U.S. Military, one that encapsulates the often frustrating tedium of life in the armed forces. “Hurry up and wait” may apply to real life, but it probably shouldn’t be true in a video game. Or at least… not to this extent. But this kind…

The Best Gaming-Themed Jack-O-Lanterns

Dedicated gaming fans can create high-quality fan art from pretty much anything. Even squash. Squirtle and Charizard come from the DeviantArt page of joh-wee, who has a truly astonishing array of carvings on her site (along with other art). Garrus is a painstaking work by Mass Effect fan and tumblr user weemiji, who created it…

Zuckerberg Isn’t Pleased With the State of Facebook Gaming, But It’s Getting Better

With Facebook’s major gaming revenue source faltering and social gaming in general struggling to find new ways to engage and earn without annoying, it’s no wonder Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg isn’t happy with the state of gaming on his massive social network. During yesterday’s earnings call as reported by TechCrunch, Zuckerberg came right out and…

How People Earn The Actual Medal of Honor

The video game first-person shooter series Medal of Honor has been around so long that it’s easy for a gamer to think of the words “Medal of Honor” as just a video game brand, no more tied to a real thing in the non-gaming word as a phrase like “brothers in arms”, “company of heroes”…

This Grand Theft Auto V Artwork Promises “Pest Control” in the San Andreas Sunshine

The art style that Rockstar Games uses to promote its Grand Theft Auto games has been almost as important as the gameplay in the open-world series. Over the years, the publisher has doled out hints as to the sex, drugs and hi-jinx players would get into via posters and other graphic design images, long before…

Strange New Resident Evil 6 Patch Will Unlock Ada Wong Right Away

In a very unusual move, Capcom is releasing a free Resident Evil 6 patch in mid-December that will unlock the Ada Wong campaign—previously available when you beat all the other campaigns—for players right away. The new patch for the maligned horror-survival game will also offer new camera and subtitle options. Here’s Capcom: Capcom is pleased…

Run, Run, Run For Your Life, And Sometimes Space-Punch A Zombie

I like a good runner as much as the next guy; any game that requires me to run forward and time my taps to keep my on-screen character alive for as long as possible. From Canabalt to Jetpack Joyride to Temple Run, the key to a good running mobile game is simplicity. Save Them All…

The Complicated Truth Behind Games That Want To Change The World

If you listen closely to those who advocate for games as a worthwhile medium, you can sense the hope that games will change the world. Either society becomes enraptured by the possibilities that interactivity presents, or games become another avenue for making a difference—if not both. We stand on the precipice of public awareness when…

Pummel Your Pals in the Street Fighter X Tekken Facebook Game

Celebrating the release of Street Fighter X Tekken on the PlayStation Vita, Capcom has released Friend Fighter on Facebook, a silly little app that’s not much more than an excuse to prove I have more friends than Kirk Hamilton. Pick a friend, pick a criteria (photos posted, travel miles, amount of friends, etc.), and get…

The service allowing named rosters to be shared over NCAA Football 13 was restored this morning, for PS3 and Xbox 360.

Pro Wrestler Who Dresses as a Classic Nintendo Wrestler Gets In Trouble At WWE Show

The New Jersey-based wrestling league Pro Wrestling Syndicate has a guy wrestling for them who goes by the name Star Man. The inspiration for his character? The star-faced character from the old Nintendo Entertainment System game Pro Wrestling (the one the “A Winner is You” meme comes from.) Star Man isn’t in the big leagues…

If You’ve Got A Vita, Here’s A Strange New Game To Check Out

Yesterday XSEED Games released Orgarhythm, a hybrid real-time-strategy rhythm game that looks more than a little strange. If you’ve got a Vita, you can buy it on the PlayStation Network for 30 bucks. There’s a launch video above. And here’s XSEED PR’s description of the game: In Orgarhythm, players are tasked with protecting their god…

This Week’s Android Charts: Bard Sharks

It’s week two of our continuing coverage of the Google Play top charts, and you know what that means—last week’s positions are go! Did your favorite game move up the charts? Slip down? Why are you so concerned? Where did these sharks come from? While there hasn’t been a great deal of movement in the…

It’s Not Zelda Cosplay, It’s a Zelda Music Video

The rather talented lady you see here is Lena Leclaire, and if she has to pause at some points and move her head a little, that’s because this isn’t a cosplay video, it’s a music video. Seems she’s one hell of an ocarina player. Legend of Zelda Medley on STL Ocarina – Lena Leclaire [YouTube]

The new SimCity will be released in North America on March 5, 2013, according to the game’s Twitter & Facebook pages.

The Nintendo 3DS’ Other Problem Appears To Be The DS

Nintendo says the 3DS’ sales in the U.S. are “weaker” than hoped. Experts will blame everything from the popularity of gaming on tablets and phones to a not-yet-overwhelmingly-great software line-up for the 3DS. Maybe…. But maybe that darn Nintendo DS is to blame. From the beginning of April 2012 through the end of September, the…

Every Friend Recruited for Bubble Galaxy with Buddies is Clean Drinking Water for Burkina Faso

Scopely’s latest “with Buddies” game hits the iTunes app store today, bringing with it a flood of clean drinking water for a developing country. The developer has partnered with charity:water to donate a gallon of water to the West African country of Burkina Faso for every friend you nag to play. Bubble Galaxy with Buddies…