Get Your First Look at Peter Molyneux’s Next Crazy Experiment Right Here

Game development’s most seductive over-promiser doesn’t work at Microsoft anymore. He’s doing his own thing, starting up a company called 22 Cans and promising a life-altering experience in his next game Curiosity. The world at large hasn’t really seen a look at the game. Until now. Molyneux showed a live demo of Curiosity at the…

20 Things You Should Know About The Next Big Console JRPG

Pickings are slim for JRPG fans this fall. Xenoblade and The Last Story have both come and gone, and while our handhelds are getting some Persona and Paper Mario action soon, there aren’t a lot of big console JRPGs on the horizon in the near future. Until January. That’s when America will finally be able…

Battle.Net and access to Diablo III and World of Warcraft is being blocked by Iran’s government, according to Polygon

Play This Awesome Free PC Game. It’ll Take 15 Minutes, And You Will Enjoy Yourself.

Look, I’m not gonna mince words here. If you own a PC, you owe it to yourself to play Gravity Bone. I don’t want to tell you what it’s all about, since the game is so short that even telling you the setup would give you information in the same amount of time that you…

Deponia is the Biggest Pile of Trash I’ve Ever Had the Pleasure of Escaping

Stranded on a world that’s literally one gigantic garbage dump, the adventurous Rufus dreams of escaping his sub-lower-class life to live among the world’s elite in a gleaming floating city in the clouds. He’ll probably kill himself first, the idiot. Adventure gaming fans will surely recognize the name Daedalic Entertainment, the creators of gorgeous hand-crafted…

Windows 8 Is Not Good For Gamers

For the past several days, I’ve been playing with a very nice laptop that has Windows 8 Professional installed on it. Many others, like our sibling site Gizmodo, have looked at Windows 8’s usability for professional environments, or for everyday home computing. I’ve been exploring its potential specifically for gaming, trying out play-related features both…

Sweet Mother Of Pearl, There’ll Be A Lot Of Indie Games At PAX This Year

This kickin’ trailer shows the 30+ games that will be on display at the Indie Megabooth at PAX Prime next week in Seattle. Can you name all the games? I… can’t. (Hmm, maybe that’s because I watched this with my mouse over it so the Vimeo logo blocks where it totally says the names of…

A Bunch Of Famous DJs Remix The Pants Off Of The Halo 4 Soundtrack

We haven’t even heard most of Massive Attack maestro Neil Davidge‘s Halo 4 soundtrack but it’s already being mashed, sliced, and remixed by a bunch of different DJs and producers. Davidge is taking the reins on the Halo series, which has up until now always featured the iconic work of Martin O’Donnell. The soundtrack itself…

This Video Shows Why the Studio That Made Wipeout Was So Awesome

Between todays’s news that the Sony Liverpool studio—originally known as Psygnosis—is closing and yesterday’s reports of Nintendo Power shutting down, this feels like The Week Video Game Nostalgia Died. But let the incredible promotion video—courtesy of Boing Boing—above remind you of how creatively forward-looking and dominant Psygnosis was in its heyday. You can smirk at…

Barack Obama and Mitt Romney Battle It Out In Their Very Own Violent Video Game

Well now here’s a trailer for VOTE!!!, a game made by the people who made Infinity Blade, that beautiful brawling game for iPad. This one is a bit more political. You’ll get to play as either Barack Obama or Mitt Romney as they brawl one another with ridiculous weapons like ice cream cones, hot dogs,…

Lost Planet 3 Creator’s Mystery Game, MMO on Consoles and Other Gaming Secrets

Editor’s Note: Imagine that there are secrets about video games buried under the soil on which you stand. The mysterious person known as Superannuation wields a shovel; so please step a little to the left and see what Superannuation is digging up just for you… According to a job posting for Lost Planet 3 [concept…

Nintendo Confirms the End of the Nintendo Power Era

Yesterday, news broke suddenly that Nintendo Power—one of the oldest game magazines around—would be shutting down. Today, Nintendo confirms that the Future-published magazine is ending this year. Here’s their official statement: Nintendo can confirm that Future US will end the production of Nintendo Power magazine with the last issue slated for December 2012. For Nintendo…

Play Counter-Strike: Global Offensive On A Mirror’s Edge Map. With Zombies. And Parkour.

Let’s all admit that Dust was a fantastic map in Counter-Strike: Source. It was small enough to where the pace was always active, with the proper amount of choke points and alternate routes for optimal strategizing. But part of the charm of Source was discovering the community maps and mods. Valve understands that charm all…

The price of a Kinect is dropping down from $149.99 to $109.99, according to Microsoft’s Larry “Major Nelson” Hryb

Seven Game Critics Combine to Form a Transformers: Fall of Cybertron Frankenreview

What’s the most power combiner team in the Transformers universe? The fierce and relentless Predaking? The cool and calculating Computron? The eagle-elephant-lion Magnaboss? As far as Fall of Cybertron is concerned, it’s Reviewertron, guardian of Metacritic. Like any combiner team, this one is made up of several wildly disparate elements united under a common cause,…

Looks Like Interplay Is Bringing Back The Studio That Made Fallout [UPDATE]

It seems like Black Isle, the game studio behind RPG classics like Fallout and Planescape: Torment, is making some sort of comeback. An official website for the new Black Isle popped up today, as did Facebook and Twitter pages (as spotted by the folks on NeoGAF). The website appears to have been registered by Interplay,…

This New Vita Game Is Undeniably Adorable

This is SunFlowers, a casual game that will be out for PlayStation Vita this fall. A casual super cute game that will be out for PlayStation Vita this fall. Sure, it looks like the type of title suited more for your phone or tablet than dedicated gaming hardware, but it also looks creative and fun.…

This Exuberant Dirt-Racing Game Helped Me Get Over My Childhood Fear Of Moles

Did I ever tell you about how terrified I was of moles when I was a kid? Oh man, I was. I really was. I think I saw a mole once above ground, and according to my parents I spent the day shouting “Mole! Mole!” and running and hiding. Burrowing little MF-er scared the pants…

Grand Theft Auto V Screens Are Nice, But How About a Skyrim Final Fantasy Dragon in GTA IV?

We’ll have tennis and dirt-biking in Grand Theft Auto V, but can we not also have a dragon that breathes fire while someone (the dragon?) does the Skyrim Fus-Roh-Dah shout? Yes, we can, thanks to the ever-wonderful mod community that keeps on tweaking the PC version of Rockstar’s Grand Theft Auto IV. Follow YouTube GTA…

Ubisoft Says 93-95% of Their PC Games Get Stolen by Pirates

Few video game companies’ PC release practices are as reviled as Ubisoft’s. From titles that require always-on internet connections to security-compromising DRM, attempts by the Assassin’s Creed publisher to stop people from illegally obtaining or running their games on PC have met with strong criticism. Their responses haven’t always helped However, Ubi CEO Yves Guillemot…