Review: Angry Birds: Halloween Special Edition

Popular puzzle game Angry Birds is all dressed up for All Hallows’ Eve. Nothing quite says “Halloween” like smashing pumpkins, green pigs in ghost costumes and birds flying through the air. Trick or treat! Angry Birds is a physics-based puzzle game for Apple’s iOS in which birds are trying to recover stolen eggs, and Angry…

Indie Devs Not Happy With New Xbox 360 Dashboard

The new Xbox 360 dashboard is clean. It’s very white. It’s also got a lot of indie developers for the platform upset with Microsoft, accusing the platform holder of putting their baby in the corner. Xbox Live Indie Games used to be somewhat easily found in the “Games Marketplace” section of the dashboard. Now? They’ve…

Ready For Battle

The United States Supreme Court building, Monday night. We’ll be inside on Tuesday, covering the Court’s first case about video games. It pits California against the game industry over a law that would make the sale of very violent games to kids illegal.

Timesplitters On The Comeback Trail

When Far Cry developers Crytek bought shuttered British studio Free Radical, many wondered how long it would be until we saw the return of the Timesplitters franchise. That time may be soon. According to a report on Eurogamer, Crytek UK – as Free Radical is now known – is “talking with various publishers about the…

Take A Peek At God Of War III’s Gorgeous Art Book

Got a knock on the door this morning. Was the postman with my God of War III art book. Let’s take a look at the thing, eh? The book is available from Ballistic, and comes in three variants, one for $65, one for $129 and the one you see above for USD$300. [God of War…

Two StarCraft II Players Look To Obama For Hope, Change

The Zerg and Protoss player base uses Comedy Central’s Rally to Restore Sanity And/Or Fear as a platform to bring sanity to StarCraft II multiplayer. He’ll get to it, guys, just like getting Arrested Development back on TV. Thanks, Jordan!

Super Jonas Bros.

What’s this? A video game thing in my nightly off-topic post? Don’t worry, dear reader with an interest in things not just video game related. This post is still for you. We’ve got sports too! I’m sure you’re just dying to talk about the World Series, so have at it. Flip over a car in…

The Week In Games: No, *You* Are The Controller!

Get your lean on this week when Microsoft finally unleashes Kinect on the Xbox 360 owning populace. But if you’re not a fan of motion-controlled games that make you sweat, there’s plenty of Bond, Kratos and Pikachu on tap! Monday, November 1 PokePark Wii: Pikachu’s Adventure (Wii) Monopoly Streets (Xbox 360) Tuesday, November 2 God…

Valve’s Take On Dota Explained By Its Creator

The makers of Half-Life, Team Fortress and Portal are taking popular Warcraft III mod Defense of the Ancients and making it their own. The man behind it all gets into the nitty-gritty of the all-new Dota in a new Q&A. Icefrog, the man tasked with overseeing development of the original Dota, explains on the official…

Ash, You Have Four Hours To Respond

To: Ash From: McWhertor Re: Don’t Press The Toilet Buttons! I’ve been wondering. Do you ever read my day notes, Ash? I bet you read the ones from Crecente. To test you, I’m going to ask you to say the codeword “Rosebud” when you get into work. If I don’t hear it by 10pm Pacific…

Rumor: Resident Evil In The Hands Of SOCOM Team

Following in the trail blazed by Dead Rising 2, the next Resident Evil game may come from the Great White North. SOCOM developer Slant Six Games could be the latest studio tapped by Capcom to create its games. A document forwarded to Kotaku indicates that a new, team-based Resident Evil game is currently in development…

DirecTV Unplugs Video Game Channel G4

X-Play is on pause for DirecTV subscribers. The satellite TV provider has dropped video game-centric network G4 from its line-up today, with DirecTV saying it has “no plans” to bring back the cable channel for its 18 million U.S. customers. DirecTV said in a statement to Entertainment Weekly that rising costs are partially to blame…

Here they Are, The Winners of An Autographed Copy of Call of Duty: Black Ops

Here it is the last giveaway for the month of October: Two North American copies of the Xbox 360 version of Call of Duty: Black Ops Prestige Edition signed by Treyarch. We randomly selected the lucky two winners from our list of newsletter subscribers. If you were subscribed, you were entered. It’s something I’ll be…

Frankenreview: Fable III

If there’s one thing compiling the Fable III Frankenreview has taught me, it’s that even the most powerful monarch is subject to the court of popular opinion. In this case the court of popular opinion features the opinion of the assembled video game reviewers, who seem to have mixed feelings when it comes to the…

Did You Win One of Three Pro Elite Wireless Controllers?

Over the weekend we kicked off a contest to give away a Pro Elite Wireless PS3 Controller from Power A to three readers. The controllers have reverse analogs, motion control, dual rumble, glowing buttons, custom L2 and R2 triggers and are rechargeable. The good news is that you didn’t have to do anything if you…

What Good Can Come Of The Meeting of Metallica & Call of Duty: Black Ops?

About a million dollars worth, actually. Activision and Metallica are teaming for a good cause and a selfish one, with the band headlining the publisher’s Call of Duty: Black Ops launch party and finding unemployed military vets jobs. The stars of Guitar Hero: Metallica will also be the stars of Activision’s big promotional push for…

Size Limit Spoils Super Meat Boy’s November Release On WiiWare

Team Meat has crushed any hopes of its sadistic platformer Super Meat Boy making a November release on the Wii. The indie developer says squeezing the game down to WiiWare size is responsible for delaying the game’s release. Addressing the “internets,” Team Meat says that a November release on WiiWare is “impossible,” saying it has…

LEGO Choice Gallery

Vagina Shooter Scores Penis Enlargement

Zombie Cow Studio’s vagina-based shooter Privates grows a pair and then some next year, when the free game finally gets its inevitable dick-based downloadable content. Set loose upon an unsuspecting world last August, Privates took gamers on a horrific journey deep inside a woman’s reproductive organs, controlling a crack squad of condom-headed commandos as they…

The PlayStation Move Push Gets Weirder

Unusually dressed models showing off the Move motion controller as part of the PlayStation showcase at last week’s Paris Games Week. Never mind the Move, when will Sony release the official PS3 head-mounted disc? As seen on Flickr