Spider: The Secret Of Bryce Manor is Currently Free For iOS (It’s Good)

Spider: The Secret Of Bryce Manor is Currently Free For iOS (It’s Good) [itunes.apple.com]

How It Feels To Review Halo 4 On Microsoft’s Turf

When I’ve got a game to review, you’ll often find me in my tiny studio apartment, sprawled out on my bed with controller in hand and laptop to my side for note-taking. I’ll take breaks here and there to flesh out thoughts or grab some food. The most recent game I reviewed was Halo 4.…

This Assassin’s Creed III: Liberation Glitch Created an Anti-Gravity Alligator

I like the portable Assassin’s Creed game a lot. But it clearly could have spent more time in development. One bug I encountered had an alligator spawn about five feet in the air. That didn’t stop me from killing it, though, which left its sad carcass floating aloft as a warning to those would mess…

Celebrity chef Jamie Oliver brings his ingredients to Zynga’s ChefVille this month. It’s a food revolution!

The Robot Is Pretty. Fight It? Wait, What Is Going On

There are several types of weird interactive fiction. For example: The type that’s just plain weird, and the type that’s delightfully weird. Walking Story by Michael Brough is most certainly that second type. Are they haikus? Not technically, but sort of in spirit. Are they bizzarre? Yes. Will you laugh? I don’t know, but I…

Reviewers Love Playing With Animals, Climbing Trees, and Stabbing People In Assassin’s Creed III

Swinging through the treetops certainly doesn’t seem like a particularly colonial pastime. And yet reviewers seem to love it. The newest entry in the Assassin’s Creed saga takes to the 18th century and the heart of the American Revolution. Can Boston and New York, in their fledgling states, measure up to Damascus, Rome, and Istanbul?…

Creatorverse is One Of the Coolest Things You Can Do With an iPad

Released today by Linden Labs, Creatorverse is a playground for the inventive mind. Connect simple shapes, assigns colors, behaviors and physical properties, and then combine them into wonderful complex machines you can share with the world. Linden Labs was once known solely for Second Life, the virtual world completely built and driven by its players.…

Heck Yes I Would Play Descent Remade In The Unreal Engine

I’ll never forget playing Descent back when it first came out. More specifically, playing the demo, which I think came with PC Gamer magazine. I played the demo over, and over. Eventually I stopped spinning around in place and actually completed the demo mission, too. I would play the heck out of a new Descent…

Games Reporter Matt Hughes Dies In Apparent Suicide

Matt Hughes, a freelancer who wrote about gaming for outlets like GamesRadar, Joystiq, and Mac|Life, passed away Tuesday in Commerce, Michigan. On Tuesday, Hughes sent out an e-mail to several of the editors he had worked with at those sites. He said he would no longer be able to contribute or take on more freelance…

Original Mass Effect Available For PS3 On December 4, Some DLC Included

The Mass Effect Trilogy, due out for PC and Xbox 360 on November 6, will be available for PlayStation 3 on December 4, BioWare announced today. The trilogy brings the first Mass Effect game to the PS3 for the first time, although Mass Effect 2 and 3 were both available on the console. Where the…

Here’s The First U.S. Wii U Commercial

And it’s not bad! Lots of diversity. Some people making faces that people don’t normally make while playing video games. Weird dubsteppy music. But at least nobody’s saying things like “I’m not a gamer, but…”

The state of Rhode Island is suing Curt Schilling over the 38 Studios debacle.

The state of Rhode Island is suing Curt Schilling over the 38 Studios debacle. [wpri.com]

There Are 145 People Playing Competitive Halo 4 Multiplayer Right Now

Call it the calm before the storm. (And the calm after the Superstorm.) Only 145 people are playing competitive games of Halo 4 online right now-a fraction of the number that will be playing next week. Microsoft’s sci-fi shooter leaked on the Internet a while ago. A great deal of people have pirated and started…

After a Sandy Delay, CityVille 2 Launches Today

Hurricane Sandy’s reach extended far beyond the real world, causing the unexpected delay of the millions of potential virtual towns of CityVille 2. Originally slated for launch on Monday, Zynga’s brand-new 3D city-builder goes live today. The Baltimore-based Zynga studio working on CityVille 2 wanted to kick off this week with a flurry of city…

Rise of the Collectible iPhone Robots

Backflip Studios takes the addictive formula of the wildly popular Dragonvale, swaps colorful lizards for quirky machine creatures, and guarantees that I’ll be obsessing over robot breeding and battling for the next year. I’ve written about Gizmonauts a couple of times already, back on that website that’ll be returning any day now, but I’ve been…

Anatomy of a Whale

Tonight, Lee’s iPad questioned him with a blue pop-up window: “Do you want to buy one Chest of Gems for $99.99?” Lee could use those gems to immediately fortify his army. He tapped “Yes,” almost without thinking. In less than a month of playing around two hours a day, he’d spent nearly a thousand dollars.…

I’m Surprised By How “Black” Assassin’s Creed Liberation Feels

History often seems lightyears away, doesn’t it? Even game franchises like Civilization-where you zip from ancient Rome to space flight in the span of hours-put a layer of abstraction over the experience that make it feel distant. The Assassin’s Creed games use history exceedingly well, but none of them have felt as personal as Assassin’s…

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Who shoots first in Angry Birds Star Wars? Update: Dammit, Rovio

Nintendo Wants to Be Friends With Your Cell Phone

“We have two things to do,” Nintendo president Satoru Iwata recently said to what may have been the 1,000th person to ask him about the house of Super Mario is going to cope with that fact that people really, really love their cellphones and that that might hurt their ability to love Nintendo machines. The…

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There’s a new Angry Birds Space update out, with a rather curious cameo.