Do You Miss Tamagotchi? Love Badgers? I Have What You Need.

It wasn’t enough that Might & Delight made a beautiful game about being a badger caring for her cubs. Now they’ve released a free add-on. Once a day for a month, find food for your cubs. Or they will die. I love this not only because it’s a free addition to a game I already…

Google’s 15 Best Android Games Of 2013

It’s the end of the year, and that means for one brief, shining moment, one Google Play gaming category will make perfect sense. These are Google Play’s editor’s picks for the top Android games of 2013. rymdkapsel grapefrukt games $3.99 This marvelous, minimalistic real-time strategy game was one of Stephen Totilo’s favorite games this year.…

Here’s what’s going on Talk Amongst Yourselves, our reader-written blog: Rathorial’s in-depth, illustrated guide shows us how he built a PC that’ll be his own pseudo-Steam Machine. Gary Alexander Stott thinks we should all be getting excited for SOMA, Frictional Games’ upcoming space-horror title. And Stormborn draws a Psyduck that would be at home on…

Forest Pokémon Are The Best Type of Pokémon

Better avoid fire with these awesome Pokémon, made by Instagrammer Jakecarter14, using materials found in nature. The Pikachu above is already super-cute, but here’s some more (sadly, a rocky Geodude is missing): Natural Pokemon [jakecarter14, imgur via dorkly] Dayshot is an image-based feature that runs every morning, showcasing some of the prettiest, funniest game-related screenshots…

Iron Man Returns In An Intense Animated Short

That is some impressive fan-made Iron Man animation, amazingly enough made by just one man, Anthony McGrath, who works as an animator at Sony’s Evolution Studio. CG Tony Stark comes under attack from the Ten Rings and deploys his new Mark Z armor. IRON MAN Mk Z HD [Anthony Mcgrath, YouTube] To contact the author…

Virtual Arma 3 is the Future of First-Person Shooters

The future is expensive and takes up too much space But hey, it’s the future! You might recognize the guy; we’re dealing with the same YouTuber who brought us footage of virtual GTA IV. This time, he tackles Arma 3. It’s sorta cute how he crouches with his little plastic gun—go ahead, take a look…

3DS Persona Trailers Feature the Heroes of Persona 3 and 4

Oh, and gameplay. Don’t forget the gameplay. The trailers, each clocking in at a bit over a minute, show the chibi-fied characters of Persona Q engaging in banter, running around, and beating up a few select baddies. Here’s hoping the game comes to the West—at the moment, Q is only announced for Japan, where it…

Mario and Peach Take Back The Mushroom Kingdom… With Guns

Guns, baseball bats, violent, bloodthirsty Pokémon, and so on and so forth. But mostly guns. The Mushroom Kingdom’s future is at stake as Mario’s team of rebels engages with Bowser’s army of gun-wielding mooks. Will they succeed in their quest? Find out below in part 6 of the epically violent Mario Warfare If you’re just…

Here’s a fresh new teaser for the live-action Patlabor movie, in which we get to meet some of the cast, including the AV-98 Ingram. Looking good so far!

A League Of Legends Dictionary: Know What The Hell Is Going On

Don’t look now, but League of Legends is one of the biggest games in the world. And that’s in spite of the fact that, while appearing simple, it’s surprisingly complex, and burdened with one hell of a lexicon. If you’re new to the game, you won’t know your ARAMs from your Ward Hops, so Jeff…

Rad Combo: Buy An Arcade Stick + Donate To Charity

The Platinum Capcom Cup Arcade FightStick Tournament Edition 2 isn’t just a mouthful, it’s one of the prettiest – and most exclusive – video game controllers around. The only people on Earth who will ever use one are the top placers at this year’s Capcom Cup fighting game tournament. Oh, and maybe you, if you…

Report: Hunger Games Banner Has Protesters Facing Terrorism Charges

Some environmental activists in Oklahoma used a Hunger Games banner as part of a protest against Devon, an energy company. For their trouble, reports say they were locked up and are now facing terrorism charges. Having gained access to a building bearing Devon’s name, the protestors erected two huge banners, one of them bearing the…

Dark Souls II’s PC Port Will Be Better

So says the game’s producer Takeshi Miyazoe, and I believe him. After all, it can’t be any worse than Dark Soul’s port. “We did know there were PC-specific features like key-mapping and use of the mouse and keyboard, high resolution and higher frame rate, stuff like that, but… It’s not that we ignored it, but…