Plants Vs. Zombies 2 Is Free-To-Play That’s Better Without Paying

You can spend five dollars in Plants Vs. Zombies 2: It’s About Time to advance from Ancient Egypt to the Pirate Seas. You can unlock enhancements with cash, or use your real money to purchase in-game currency, stocking up on power-ups and using them to blow through every level. Or just keep your money and…

Despite being his year, everyone’s beloved second banana can’t keep up with the Wii Fit Trainer on Masahiro Sakurai’s new Smash Bros. screenshot. Or is that some sort of an attack move disguised as an excercise? Dayshot is an image-based feature that runs every morning, showcasing some of the prettiest,funniest game-related screenshots and art that…

Tokyo’s Most Unusual Restaurants Offer More Than Food

Some restaurants you go for the food. Not these, though. You patron these because they’re interesting, unique, or down right odd. With the Tokyo Game Show kicking off next month, now might be as good a time as any to look at some, certainly not all, of Tokyo’s most peculiar restaurants and bars. Some of…

Japan’s Smoking Culture Research Society has rushed to Hayao Miyazaki’s defense. According to Yahoo News Japan, the group points out that there isn’t data on the number of smokers when the anime is set. But! Data from 1950 states that 84.5 percent of Japanese men smoked. The second point the group made was putting more…

Killer is Dead: Heavy on the Action, Light on the Plot

Running through a dark heavy world, wielding a katana and cybernetic arm, and battling shadowy twisted freaks. You are Mondo Zappa, executioner for the Bryan Execution Firm, out to kill criminals and assassins. Welcome to the world of Killer is Dead, the latest game from the mind of Suda 51. The game is currently scheduled…

So, How’s That Japanese Manga on Steve Jobs?

The new Ashton Kutcher movie based on the biography of Steve Jobs, Jobs is headed to theaters tomorrow. Sadly, Japan won’t be getting the movie until November. But, in the meantime, Japan has a new manga about the black turtleneck-wearing genius. Titled Steve Jobs and written by the author of the popular Thermae Romae manga…

This Avengers Hulk Figure Will Smash You

“Hulk smash!” Seriously, those were my first words upon opening the box containing my latest Hot Toys treasure. As those who have been following know, I’ve been collecting whatever Movie Masterpiece Avengers figures released from the Hong Kong collectible toy company that I can. While I’m missing a couple of side characters and my Iron…

Japan’s Mysterious Underwater Circles Are Lovely

Behold the ocean’s version of crop circles. But this wasn’t made by aliens or humans pretending to be aliens. A single, small fish made this circle. Last fall, there were the reports of “mysterious” underwater sea circles, discovered 80 feet below sea level off the coast of Japan. Yoji Okata, an underwater photographer with over…

Inside North Korea’s Newest Video Game Arcade

Arcades might be a thing of the past in North America, but they live on in, um, North Korea. The country’s state media recently released photos of an arcade that supposedly just opened on the Rungna Islet in Pyongyang, the country’s capital. The islet is home to the world’s largest stadium, basketball courts, a skateboard…

What’s this? Plants Vs. Zombies 2 is already out on iOS? Seems that way

Game of Thrones using CGI is probably not surprising, but Vulture has a cool reel that details a ton of the CGI work in the show. Anything you thought was real that turned out to be fake?

Awesomenauts, the 2D online battle arena game by the Dutch developer Ronimo Games, is coming to PS4. It’s already out on Xbox 360, PS3, and PC.

A Most Delightful Adventure Time x The Legend of Zelda Crossover

Bless fan fiction and fan art, both of which indulge us with all sorts of ridiculous, awesome crossovers. Like this Ocarina of Adventure Time collaboration by Joe Hogan and Mike Vasquez, for example. Take a look at the whole thing. Recognize everyone? It’s one of four different collaborations, actually—like this one of Adventure Time x…

Martyr Dog, Earning XP While Not Playing & More Call of Duty Surprises

Today’s big Call of Duty Ghosts multiplayer reveal event didn’t reveal everything. They actually skipped some really interesting things, including “martyr dog.” Thankfully, Ghosts executive producer Mark Rubin decided to spill more news when he spoke to us. Here’s what we got out of him… The game will ship with 14 multiplayer maps. There probably…

I Would Play The Hell Out Of This Old-School Blade Runner Game

Maybe it’s just the soft spot I’ll always have for Westwood’s underrated Blade Runner adventure game, but I immediately loved this new video from the 8-bit cinema purveyors at CineFix

Why Female Soldiers Were Finally Added to Call of Duty‘s Multiplayer

There is no great suffrage movement to credit for finally enabling players of the world’s most popular first-person shooter tokill each other as female soldiers. For better or worse, that’s not how these things tend to happen in video games. Certainly not this time. With the announcement of playable female soldiers for November’s sure-to-be-a-blockbuster Call…

NBA 2K14 Calls the Crew Back to the Court

My Crew—the cooperative multiplayer mode introduced in NBA 2K10 but absent from the series for the past two years—will return for NBA 2K14, 2K Sports said today. The mode will be available only on current-generation versions of the game. In My Crew, gamers could take their created basketball player from the game’s career mode (“My…

Tywin Lannister’s Actor To Appear In The Witcher 3

One can already make a great deal of comparisons between the dark fantasy world of The Witcher and the arguably darker fantasy world of Game of Thrones. Now there’s one more. Actor Charles Dance, best known for his outstanding work as the cruel, calculating ruler Tywin Lannister on HBO’s Game of Thrones, will be joining…

Pixel People Was Dangerously Entertaining. Now It’s Deadly.

In late January, LambdaMu Games took over every non-working waking hour of my life with Pixel People for iOS, a game about gene splicing, city-building, and desperately trying to avoid spending money (I failed on more than one occassion). It took me a month to stop playing. That’s why today’s massive update is a jerk.…

7 Ways To Initiate Sex In Saints Row IV

If you didn’t already assume, there’s definitely some NSFW language. Saint’s Row IV has 7 different voice actors, and 7 romance options, so I decided to give everyone their due and make 7 different characters and try them all out. Up top is Female 1 – Laura Bailey The other voice actors feature the same…