A person claiming to be an ex-Zynga worker trashed the company at Q&A site Quora. No word from Zynga if they’re legit.

Hybrid‘s Creative Director is Answering Your Questions Right Here, Right Now [Interview Over]

The unusual multiplayer shooter Hybrid continues the Xbox 360’s Summer of Arcade this week and the guy who thought up the game, 5TH Cell creative director Jeremiah Slaczka is here to answer your questions about it and, well, about anything else you want to ask a game developer. A server problem may have kept you…

If THQ Gets Its Way I’ll Be Dead in Five Days

First THQ’s media relations folks send me a furry hat that’s too small for my head. Now they’ve signed my death warrant. In honor of next week’s release of Darksiders 2, THQ got some lovely folks in Pakistan (it says so on the sticker on the bottom) to jinx the living hell out of my…

BioShock Infinite Update: Multiplayer Modes Cut, Gears Maestro Joining. But Should Fans Worry? [Update]

A string of bad news about one of the most anticipated games on the planet might be giving BioShock Infinite fans cause for concern. But the game’s creative director, Ken Levine, tried to allay concerns during a call with Kotaku today. He did so on the heels of us learning some surprising details about Infinite‘s…

Sony ‘Abandoned’ The Trademark For The Last Guardian. Here’s Why That Means Nothing [UPDATE]

The Internet exploded today following news that Sony had “abandoned” the trademark for their much-anticipated PlayStation 3 game The Last Guardian (as first reported by PlayStation Lifestyle). And indeed, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has filed a “Notice of Abandonment” to inform Sony that the trademark is reverting to public domain. But despite rampant…

You Can Now Pre-Order the Ouya Console

If you contributed to $95 or more Ouya’s record-breaking Kickstarter campaign, then congratulations! You’ll be getting one of the shiny, Tegra-powered game consoles when they come out next year. But if you didn’t contribute to the crowdfunding and still want to see what all the fuss if about, you can pre-order the Android box today…

I Can Explain Zynga’s Decline After Playing FIFA 13

Everyone’s got some genres they’re not really into. For me, it’s always been puzzle games and sport games. Puzzle games are good at making me feel frustrated if not stupid. Not a fan! And sports games, well, I usually figure I’d rather actually play the sport than watch it. I grew up playing all sorts…

I Wouldn’t Know Gameloft’s First Unreal Engine Game is for Mobile if I Hadn’t Been Told

Gameloft, most recently of the Dark Knight Rises tie-in fame, have recently been promising their first mobile game using Unreal 3. That game is Wild Blood, and that is its trailer you see here. By itself, without context, this trailer might not be terribly impressive. These are elements we’ve seen before, after all. Giant sword,…

MVP Baseball Returns, but Only in Korea

Few noticed back in April, if it was even announced stateside, that EA Sports’ MVP Baseball series was returning as an online game in South Korea. It’s an interesting re-emergence of a brand many sports gamers remember fondly, but it offers little hope of the game actually returning in North America. MVP Baseball Online, in…

See How Dishonored Will Let You Improvise Some Really Cool Kills

The malleability of the combat system in Dishonored is one of the things that has me most lookingf forward to the upcoming alternate-reality adventure from Arkane Studios The trailer above shows how you can mix and match abilities and gadgets to pull off sneaky, surprising kills. Can’t wait until October.

There Are 10 Million Reasons You Won’t Be Able to Stop Playing This Puzzle RPG

My latest run through the pixelated dungeon of EightyEight Games’ iOS dungeon puzzler earned me a score of a little more than 800,000 points. Freedom costs 10 million. I’m half-hoping I never make it. Reaching that lofty goal in the aptly-named 10000000 means freedom, sure, but it also means a possible end two-minute marathon dungeon…

Epic Games Announces Best Studio Logo Ever

Today Epic Games announced the opening of some video game studio in Maryland that has a freaking bear with wings and a unicorn horn for its logo. It’s working on Infinity Blade: Dungeons or something. Bear. With wings. And a horn. Located in Hunt Valley, Maryland, this new game studio is comprised of top-level development…

You Might Have Missed These Important Details In That New Black Ops II Trailer

Breaking down trailers into a step by step analysis, or even just viewing them in slow motion, can reveal a lot of interesting information about upcoming games. Did you notice, for instance, that Nintendo DS on the multiplayer battlefields of Black Ops II? You can totally play Pokémon with it in case you’re bored in…

Pitfall! on iPad Is What You Expect and a Little Bit of What You Don’t

If you’re old like me, you played the original version of Pitfall! on the Atari 2600 way back when. Sequels to David Crane’s iconic side-scrolling adventure have come and gone but none have quite captured the tense feel of the 1982 release. Yet, the 30-year-old classic seems like it’d be great as a mobile gaming…

Ain’t Nothing Special About This Week’s Nintendo Download But the Real Bout

Sometimes Nintendo’s weekly downloadable content offerings grant me a broad selection of game-infused paints with which to decorate the canvas of this post. And then there’s weeks like these that don’t even give me enough to keep a painting metaphor going. I could try to get excited about Real Bout Fatal Fury Special, if you’d…

They Were Laid Off From Their Game Company. Now They Want To Change The Way We Play.

Jason Fader and his team were sitting in a bar, drinking. Commiserating. Earlier that day they’d all been laid off from their jobs at Obsidian Entertainment, where they helped work on games like Fallout: New Vegas and an unannounced project called North Carolina. When North Carolina was axed, Obsidian had no choice but to let…

You’ll be able to see Black Ops II‘s multiplayer played from Gamescom next week via livestream

One of the Worst-Rated Game Franchises of All Time Gets a Wii U Sequel

There are currently four games in the Game Party series of mini-game collections. The combined Metacritic average for these four games is 31. So why the hell is Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment releasing Game Party Champions for the Wii U? I’d say it has something to do with the Game Party series on the Wii…

Koei Tecmo Boss Kind of Sort of Announces a New Game

Tecmo Koei CEO, Yoichi Erikawa recently said in an interview with Weekly Famitsu that the alpha version of the long-missing game, Ni-Oh! was complete and that work on the game was continuing. But that wasn’t all. The interview between Erikawa and Enterbrain CEO, Hirokazu Hamamura, mainly covered the growth of Tecmo Koei since the two…

Attention All Comic Market Fans, Knock Off the Sexualized Bags. Thanks!

This Friday, the summer Comic Market (aka “Comiket”) steamrolls Japan. There will be tons of self-produced manga from famed artists and new talents on sale. A big chunk of it is sexy stuff, and so are the free bags that attendees get from game companies, retailers, manga makers—you name it. No wonder one illustrator is…