NBA 2K13 Adds Kinect Features, Says Retail Listing

Somehow, NBA 2K13 has managed to have a three-stage cover reveal. First, there were the stars. Then the cover added in Jay-Z as an executive producer, right there under the logo. Now, as first noticed by 360sync.com, we see the Xbox 360 box art, and notice it says “Better with Kinect.” Sports simulations so far…

Fighting Game Revisions Have Made Him Neurotic

In today’s episode of Speak Up on TAYtaku, because folks are spending more time there than in Speak Up, commenter MrGilder explains how the fear of new versions of new fighting games has him frozen in fear. So I am absolutely terrified to buy Persona 4 Arena any time soon. Why? Because it’s an Arc…

Airplanes and Monsters in the Week in Gaming Apps, I Could Really Use a Witch Right Now

Witch right now. Witch right now. I could use some spears or some monsters or a witch, or to get back to some gaming apps much simpler than this. Because after all the crashin’ and matchin’ and thrashin’, the monster bombin’ and the droppin’ and hack-and-slashin’… Okay, that’s enough of that. It’s the Week in…

Should The Gaming Industry Be More Talkative? Game Makers Speak Up

Yesterday, I ran an op-ed asking the people who make and publish video games to talk more, to be more willing to answer gamers’ questions, to communicate rather than wrap themselves in a blanket of cold, corporate silence The piece triggered quite a few passionate reactions. Some agreed with my piece. Others spoke out against…

Your Favorite Superheroes Re-Imagined As Guitars. You Know, ‘Guitar Heroes.’

Do you get it? DO YOU? I’m not sure if you get it. This lovely print by Biotwist wonders not “What if Wolverine and Batman played guitar… what if they were guitars?” The results, as you can see, are a lot of fun. I like that Superman is a Les Paul, and Hulk appears to…

GameStop Secures Exclusive Skylanders Giants DLC the Hard Way

GameStop loves its retailer-exclusive downloadable content, but Skylanders Giants DLC all comes by way of toys. What’s the world’s largest dedicated video game retailer to do? Exclusive toys, of course! GameStop is now taking preorders for the Golden Dragonfire Cannon Battle Pack. a special package that contains the series 2 version of the Skylander Chop…

Here Are The Trophies For Metal Gear Solid 4, From Murder-Puking to Ocelot-Kissing

Metal Gear Solid 4 has always felt a tiny bit incomplete. It’s a game that offers a ton of hidden secrets and alternate paths, and leaves itself open to a big variety of gameplay styles. And yet there are no trophies to unlock for finding those secrets, or for playing the game in difficult, uncommon…

The Power (And Danger) Of Big Numbers In RPGs

We are obsessed with numbers. We lap them up. We get immense pleasure out of watching digits decrease and multiply as we peer over bank accounts and scales and Vegas roulette tables. Japanese role-playing games feed off this obsession, pelting us with giant numbers like we’re targets at a carnival game. Over the course of…

The Sweetest Person You Will Ever Encounter In DayZ

Raini won’t steal your beans or kill you for your ammunition. All Raini wants to do is share her soda and tent with you. DayZ – Making Friends [YouTube via DayZ]

To-Do in Los Angeles: Go and Punch a Car Pinata to Celebrate 25 Years of Street Fighter

We’ve already shown you a sneak peek at the awesome art being created to celebrate the quarter-century birthday of Capcom’s legendary fighting game series. And you can drool over a few more pieces in the gallery above. If you go to the Combo Attack Art Show at the IAm8-Bit gallery space, you’ll see all of…

No One Gets Excited About Console News Anymore

1999 seemed like a much more exciting time for console news, at least according to the comedians at Mega64. Wireless controllers, backwards compatibility…these were once fascinating new features. Have consoles reached their peak? Can they really not please us anymore? What about the Ouya? Mega64: New Consoles, Then and Now [YouTube]

EA Sues Zynga, Says The Ville Rips Off The Sims

A week full of bad news just got way worse for the people who make FarmVille: EA is suing them for copyright infringement. In the lawsuit, EA says Zynga’s The Ville “copied and misappropriated the original and distinctive expressive elements” of their game The Sims Social This isn’t the first time someone has accused the…

QWOP Creator Gives Players a New, Awkward Unicorn Quest

From the creators of QWOP, you can now gallop as a horse in an awkward dance between the K, H and J, L keys. The video above is of Kirk trying to play the game. In his defense, he couldn’t hear any audio while he was doing a screen recording, which made the game harder…

The Lead Game Designer of Transformers: Fall of Cybertron is Answering Your Questions Now

Matt Tieger is the game director on the next Transformers game. That’s probably a fun job, but let’s not assume anything. How about you ask him yourself? Tieger, whose team at High Moon Studios is releasing Transformers: Fall of Cybertron this month, is joining us right here to answer your best questions, starting at 1pm…

I Can’t Wait To See More of Chell’s Life After Aperture

(Caution: Portal 2 ending spoilers ahead!) Portal 2 had a satisfying, if ambiguous, ending. The player, in the form of Chell, finally got to breathe the air free of Aperture. There was no deer. But what comes next for our silent heroine? One fan started this music video using Valve’s new Source Filmmaker. It’s the…

Flight Takes You Around the World in 120 Days , With a Paper Airplane

Flight begins on a very sweet-hearted note—a little girl writes a letter to Santa Claus, saying she wants to see her mother for Christmas. She folds it into a paper airplane and flings her wish into the sky. It’s your job to get that message all the way around the world. Earnest and even a…

These Are The 40 Most Powerful People In Video Games

The world of video games is full of mighty people—people whose mere whims control what video games we play, what we play games on, how we buy them or even what games are like. We’ve often wondered who the most powerful person is in video games. And we’ve wondered who the second is, the third…

John Madden Jinxes Madden 13 Cover Athlete

For sports fans, there’s nothing more powerful than superstition. Sometimes we wear the same worn-out jersey every Sunday. Sometimes we put good luck charms in our sneakers. And we never, ever, ever say something that might inadvertently jinx our favorite players. Unless we’re John Madden, who passionately declared in an interview with the Detroit Free…

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Dishonored Gets an Incredible List of A-List Actors to Go All Steampunk

Hit Girl from Kick Ass. Roger Sterling from Mad Men. Louise from Thelma and Louise. Princess frikkin’ Leia. The actors responsible for those much-praised performances will all be showing up in Arkane Studios’ highly anticipated alt-reality adventure when it comes out this fall. It’s kind of incredible, really. Publisher Bethesda Softworks let the news of…