Goodbye iPhone, The Samsung Galaxy Note II is My New Gaming Phone

Up until recently I’d been counting the days until my December mobile phone upgrade eligibility, the day I could extend my contract for another two years in exchange for a discounted iPhone 5. There’d been a gnawing anxiety deep in my gut, growing stronger each day my friends possessed Apple’s latest gadget and I did…

Listen To The Surprisingly Chatty XCOM: Enemy Unknown Holiday Card

Christmas Joust is still my favorite 2012 video game-related holiday card, but I’m giving this XCOM: Enemy Unknown one second place. Watch the video with the sound on and you’ll hear why.

The Biggest Disappointments Of 2012

2012 was a hell of a year for video games. We got a ton of fantastic games to play, surprises of all shapes, sizes, and colors. It was also a year of upheaval, when things often didn’t go according to plan, and when many a game failed to live up to expectations. It’s not that…

What The Hell Is Going On With Warhammer: 40,000: Dark Millenium?

It’s a strange thing, the video game industry. The people who publish big games will sometimes cancel, move, or overhaul them entirely. Nothing wrong with any of that, but one big problem is that along the way, some of those publishers will clam up. They’ll refuse to give straight answers or talk about their plans.…

First My Little Pony Update Brings Bowling Pony, Who Doesn’t Roll on Shabbos

It’s Hearth Warming’s Eve in Ponyville, and Gameloft is celebrating with the first major update for the My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic app. The town is covered with snow, there are festive decorations to buy, and John Goodman’s finest work is immortalized forever in digital pony form. Along with the requisite bug fixes, the…

The Wonderful World Of Dog Cosplay

Cats get all the internet fame, but they’re not the only pets participating in cosplay. Dog cosplay is also a ‘thing,’ and a cute, amazing thing at that. Can’t help but wonder though: which is easier to do, cat cosplay or dog cosplay? As much as I love cats, they’re not so great at playing…

Mario’s Evil Doppelganger and New Super Mario Bros 2 DLC Get Naughty on the Nintendo Download This Week

Is Wario really bad? Or is the zig-zagged ‘stached bounder just really, really focused on being a baller? Either way, in Wario Land 2, he’s taking on some fools who were crazy enough to steal from him. The 1999 classic game features all sorts of hilarious transformations amid a brightly colored gameworld full of unrevealed…

Twenty-Seven Classic Infocom Text Adventures All At Once, All For iOS

The Lost Treasures of Infocom collection is now available for iPad and iPhone, boasting 27 classic adventure games and more than 350 hours of gameplay for a mere $10. I hear what you’re saying, “But Fahey, I can download any or all of these games to my PC and play through them in their entirety…

Gorgeous Games of 2012: Need for Speed: Most Wanted

It’s not easy to idle like this in Need for Speed: Most Wanted the excellent open-world racing game from EA’s Criterion Games. Even at high speeds—well, especially at high speeds—this game was great to look at. That earns Most Wanted a Cinemagraph (a subtly-animating-animated-GIF, if you don’t know) for our Year in Beauty series.

Darksiders, plus Darksiders II, all of its DLC and the season pass (PC) is $13.19 from Amazon, until Friday. [Dealzon]

These Halo 4 Cheaters Might Look Headless, But You Can Still Headshot ‘Em [UPDATE]

If you play Halo 4 multiplayer, chances are you’ve heard about the rumored headless Spartans that you can’t kill. Maybe if you’re unlucky you’ve actually come across these infamous Spartans. One of the popular aspects of this rumor is that the headlessness is actually an extremely high level helmet unlock. But that would be kind…

The Steam Holiday Sale Is Now Live

Stockings ready? Wallets out? Steam’s winter holiday sale has begun Right now there are sales on a whole bunch of franchises, including Hitman, Prince of Persia, and many others. You can get Borderlands 2 for $30, for example. There are also some big publisher bundles: $90 gets you a whole bunch of Bethesda games, including…

FarmVille 2 Crafting Workshop: Everything You Need to Know

As FarmVille 2 continues to grow on Facebook and Zynga.com, many players might have grown restless with the same routine of planting crops and feeding animals. If that’s the case, those same players will be pretty excited with the release of the Crafting Workshop, an entirely new element to gameplay. We’re here with a guide…

The Star Trek video game is out on April 23, 2013. Find out about pre-order perks and more info on the official site

Our 25 Most Popular Stories Of The Year, According to Math

We published a lot of stories this year. You loved some. You hated others. Some were great. Some were arrows Our finest tech people have crunched the numbers and provided me with a list of our top traffic-getters. Below, you can see the 25 stories that drew the most new readers to our site, which,…

EA Mobile’s big holiday sale is go, with more than 100 iPhone and iPad games on sale for $.99 or less.

With NRA Set to Blame Video Games, Conservative Magazine Says Don’t

In America, neither the left nor the right have an exclusive claim on scapegoating violent video games for some societal ill. Both do it in different ways and for different purposes. But tomorrow, the National Rifle Association is expected to blast games and Hollywood in a response to the Newtown, Conn., mass killings last week.…

The Most Fun You Can Have With Pudding Without Somebody Getting Naked

Riding high on the continued success of Cut the Rope, developer ZeptoLab serves up victory pudding, only this pudding doesn’t want to be eaten or smeared on the naked bodies of unpleasant people. Pudding Monsters wants to be free. And who could blame them? Sitting in the fridge day in and day out, fearing the…

It’s Your Last Chance to Win a Prize Pack Worth $1,000 Before the End of the World

Ha, ha, hey, it’s December 20. Spend what might be your last moments on Earth playing Dikembe Mutombo’s 4½ Weeks to Save the World, potentially adding more time to the Mayan Calendar, and potentially winning a $1,000 prize pack — that you’ll actually be able to use because you’ve helped save mankind. Super simple. Play…

Borderlands 2 Will Raise Its Level Cap Early Next Year

IGN today reported that Borderlands 2‘s level cap, currently at 50, will rise sometime in the first three months of next year. It’s not going to come with Sir Hammerlock’s Big Game Hunt, announced and previewed today. 2K Games told IGN that Gearbox Software still is considering whether to do it as part of a…