The Assassin’s Creed Comic Has Got Me Wondering…

Maybe the assassins are the bad guys? I’ve played the Assassin’s Creed games as thoroughly as I scrape the bottom of a bowl of vanilla pudding. I’m up on the lore, I’ve unlocked hidden movies and I’m waiting for more information about how Marco Polo was involved in the generations-spanning conflict between the brotherhood of…

Excuse Me, Do You Have the Time?

Take the short survey below, email the your answer to [email protected], and you’ll be entered to win an Oberon LED watch. Now, the next time a girl asks you the time you won’t have to pull out your cell phone full of text messages from your mom. Standard contest rules apply. Only open to US…

Call of Duty: Black Ops Luckiest Kill Is Axe To Ankles

We’ve seen off the wall knife kills before in Call of Duty multiplayer—remember this lucky Modern Warfare 2 stab?—but across the map, off the wall, off the floor and into the Achilles heel of an online opponent? The unlucky recipient—a player by the handle of “BotteDimix”—of this Call of Duty: Black Ops tomahawk is likely…

You Don’t Need Two Arms To Play Kinect

Chris Erickson’s brother found himself without the use of his right arm following a tragic accident, but that hasn’t stopped him from enjoying Xbox 360 Kinect games. Here we see one of the direct benefits of controller-free gaming. He might not do quite as well with some of the more limb-intensive Kinect games like Dance…

Monday Night Combat’s PitGirl, Tank & More Get Statuesque

The Monday Night Combat battle continues… in your home! Uber Entertainment, makers of the Xbox Live Arcade hit, have made four of the game’s combatants available in resin form via the developer’s online store. These resin statues of Monday Night Combat’s PitGirl, Assassin, Assault and Tank classes don’t come cheap. They range from $69.99 to…

Instant Action Is No More, Ceasing Their Dream Of In-Browser High-End Gaming [UPDATE]

The company that let us play The Secret of Monkey Island in our browser and just started letting people play a sort of Guitar Hero on Facebook is shutting down. The company also owns the Torque engine which is used in many independent web and disc-based games. The engine is now up for sale. Word…

Sorry Dora, You Are Not Top Chef

Dora the Explorer and Top Chef host and professional hamburger eater Padma Lakshmi hang together at the New York City launch party for Nickelodeon Fit for the Wii. Gameface is a photographic celebration of the people who make, play and love video games.

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The To-Do List For The Goliath Of Video Games

You’re a giant video game company. You’ve released StarCraft II this year, and Call of Duty: Black Ops is selling ridiculous amounts. Your first name’s Activision, last name’s Blizzard. You have a plan for the future and, today, you shared. What we’ve got here is the text from a slide shown today by Thomas Tippl,…

Science Proves We Can See The Future

Is the flow of time constant, or can events that haven’t occurred yet influence our behavior? A new paper provides scientific proof that humans can see into the future. You probably saw this coming. Can we see into the future? It’s a power claimed by soothsayers, oracles, witches, astrologists, and prophets since time began flowing…

This Is What Nearly 3 Million People Gaming Look Like

This image of active Call of Duty: Black Ops players was snapped by reader The Dude at 11 p.m. eastern time last night. Note the nearly 3 million active players and the fact that seemingly the only people not playing Black Ops last night lived in the Rocky Mountains…. sorry, I had things to do.

Bulletstorm OJ, Like the Game, is Packed With Pulp

Unlike the package of bullet-riddled rotten meat sent to my house earlier this year, this jug of Bulletstorm Orange Juice promises to deliver Amazing Bulletstorm Stories! packed with 100% PULP! What’s that mean? Well according to the OJ’s ingredient list: “Bulletstorm was written by Rick Remender, author of the Punisher. Bulletstorm takes players on a…

Odds Of A Shameless BioShock Or GTA MMO Appear To Be Low

The chairman of the company that puts out everything from Civilization to BioShock to Grand Theft Auto explains why he’s never rushed to try to turn his top series into the next World of Warcraft. For that, we are thankful. This was the beginning of Take Two chief Strauss Zelnick’s response to a question at…

Bulletstorm OJ Visual Guide

Bulletstorm OJ Visual Guide

Shogun 2: Total War Returns To Japan In March

The bow monks have notched their arrows, the boats have been launched, and the footmen are stirring nervously in anticipation of the newly-revealed March release date for Sega’s Shogun 2: Total War. Drawing on the wisdom of Master Sun Tsu and the experience of doing these sorts of games for more than a decade, The…

Rock Band Will Still Be Rock Band After Harmonix is Sold

Viacom, like any good media conglomerate, loves big bottom lines… and it cannot lie, you other investors can’t deny that when a subsidiary walks in with itty bitty net earnings you’ve got to sell it… OK, that didn’t really work. But here’s the important thing: The makers of Rock Band and Dance Central will continue…

A Life Well Lived on Facebook

A life well lived is a life well documented on Facebook, it seems. This is Facebook as Facebook’s creators see it, a place free of annoying Farmville beggars, ad-backed instant messages, friendships and pokes. A place where life scrolls down in a single column packed with photos, life-changing one-liners and painful status updates. This is…

This Is Apparently The Ultimate Gaming Advantage

Behold The Avenger, an Xbox 360 controller prosthesis that promises to improve your accuracy and reaction time. Steven says “It’s almost like having extra fingers.” We say “Who the hell is Steven?” Steven’s quote appears on the front of the web page for The Avenger, and while I suspect he is one of the many…

L.A. Noire Explores The Subtleties of Crime With Nuanced, Digital Actors

It’s here, the first real trailer for gritty 40s detective game L.A. Noire and it’s going to blow you away. I’ve always been bothered by how out of sync, how unreal, digital actors look in video games. That’s exacerbated in the sorts of games they expect you to read anything into the folks you run…