Blizzard Offering A Week Of Free Time To Warcraft Apostates

Backsliders in the church of Warcraft are being coaxed back to the flock with an offer of seven free days of gameplay, to whet their appetite for the Cataclysm expansion due in December. Notices are going out to lapsed subscribers now; they promise a week of game time, but the offer expires Dec. 1. World…

Psychonauts Creator Is Totally Ready For A Sequel

Tim Schafer, creative force behind Grim Fandango and Brutal Legend, is ready and willing to give you that Psychonauts sequel you’ve been dreaming of. Now he just needs a publisher to finance the damn thing. When asked by games mag PSM3 about the possibilities of a sequel to 2006’s quirky psychic adventure, Schafer said “I’m…

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Get Your Mitts On LittleBigPlanet 2’s “Grabinator”

LittleBigPlanet 2’s already brought us grappling hooks, bounce pads, Sackbots, and the Creatinator. Now Media Molecule reveals a fourth tool – the Grabinator, with which Sackboy can pick up carry and even throw massive things of a great weight. The Grabinator replaces an early concept called the “Power Gloves,” but they do the same thing.…

Octodad Proves Raising Kids, Secretly Being An Octopus Ain’t Easy

Loving husband. Caring father. Secret octopus. This is the tagline for Octodad, an adventure game in which players struggle to raise a family, maintain a secret octopus identity and somehow walk upright on tentacles. Created by a team of students at DePaul University for the Independent Games Festival Student Showcase at next year’s Game Developers…

They Died For Mega Man’s 4.0 GPA

If I had the Mega Buster, junior year chemistry would have been so much easier. Two birds, one stone and all that, too. Seen on Dorkly.

Halo Reach, Time, Golf Balls & One Poor Spartan Make An Epic Machine

Halo Reach player and Forge tinkerer “Carnage A51” spent a month in the Xbox 360 game’s level maker, crafting a Rube Goldberg machine with a red letter ending. It may take a while to get there, but it pays off. Warthogs Mongeese and Ghosts toppling like dominoes and slow moving Halo golf balls may test…

Fallout: New Vegas Does Thing On Japan’s Sales Charts

The most exciting new addition to this week’s Japanese game sales chart is the appearance of Fallout: New Vegas. Looks like that “protest” against Japanese role-playing games campaign worked. While Fallout: New Vegas didn’t managed to unseat reigning champ God Eater Burst—or sell better than the Super Mario Bros. collection, Pokemon or Winning Eleven 2011,…

Kinect Sports Launches Facebook App

Rare has built and launched a Kinect Sports application for Facebook, which will keep track of players’ league results, allow them to issue invitations and be invited to others, and collect video highlights in a single place. The application will soon update with the ability to see complete personal stats and records (by event, or…

Turkey, Attorneys and Some Lovely Bruschetta

To: Ash From: Crecente I got a turkey in the mail today. It was an entire turkey, smoked. It came from the smokehouse wizards in New Braunfels, Texas. They are magical with their meats…. Hmmm, that didn’t come out right. I once spent a week in New Braunfels covering a very high-profile murder trial that…

Review: FlingSmash Nearly Lives Up To Its Name

For ten bucks more than the cost of a Wii Remote Plus you can pick up the new Nintendo controller with a copy of FlingSmash, Artoon’s paddle-ball platformer. Is it worth it? Let’s see. FlingSmash is a rather ballsy name for a game on a platform that began life plagued with television-damaging controller throwing. When…

Melt Down The Megacopter In Bionic Commando Rearmed 2

This is how you bring down the Megacopter in Bionic Commando Rearmed 2 – hang on its undercarriage, blast away at the engines and then – jump on a plunger so it shits out a clown car? Well alright. That’s one way to finish off a boss in BCR2. Capcom released the following gallery o’…

Bionic Commando Rearmed 2 Characters

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Super Meat Boy Teases New 360 Chapter, New PC Character

Minecraft guy and Captain Viridian of VVVVVV are known to be two of three playable characters exclusive to Super Meat Boy’s upcoming PC version. Team Meat teased the third today; looks like the guest star’s game name rhymes with Shmachinarium. There are three more characters to be revealed, and Team Meat dropped these hints: “One…

de Blob 2 Lets Blob Drink Lead Paint, Be A Morph Ball

Wii hit de Blob is going 2D, HD and stereoscopic 3D when the globose, paint-drenched hero makes his way to the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 next year. THQ’s Blob also has a few new tricks, including one that made 3D Metroid games more fun. de Blob 2 retains the soft, brightly colored charm of…

Know Mega Man’s Evil Robot Masters

With ten installments of the main Mega Man series and several spinoffs, it’s hard to tell one evil Robot Master from the next. That’s where Udon’s Mega Man Robot Master Field Guide comes in. The Mega Man Robot Master Field Guide, due out in March of next year from frequent Capcom collaborator Udon Entertainment, compiles…

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…