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Check out or handy dandy guide to the best video games ever, for every platform, according to us.
By Tina Amini Published January 15, 2013 -
Find Out if Your PC Can Run BioShock Infinite (And Has Room For It!)
Here are the minimum and recommended specs for running BioShock Infinite PC. We can’t say for sure whether you should run the game on PC, as opposed to Xbox 360 or PS3. But, judging by how good the first 4 1/2 hours of the game are, we recommend your run it on something These specs…
By Stephen Totilo Published January 15, 2013 -
The Latest Batch Of Steam Greenlight Games Includes Leisure Suit Larry
Lewd adventure game Leisure Suit Larry and the funny parody DLC Quest are among the latest batch of Steam Greenlight games, announced by Valve today. These are games (and non-games!) voted by the community to receive coveted spots on Valve’s digital distribution service. Here’s Valve in a press release: Valve today revealed the fourth set…
By Jason Schreier Published January 15, 2013 -
5 Things You Should Know About The Borderlands 2 DLC That Came Out Today
[Editor’s note: Below follows our impressions of Sir Hammerlock’s Big Game Hunt, which releases today. I played the add-on content roughly a month ago, finishing all the main quests and a handful of side quests. This article has also been updated with the new launch trailer.] We’re up to our third campaign add-on for September’s…
By Tina Amini Published January 15, 2013 -
Ron Gilbert’s The Cave will be released on January 22nd for PSN & Wii U, and January 23rd for XBLA & Steam. Only a week!
András Neltz Published January 15, 2013 -
Sweet Pixel Graphics Can’t Save This Game from Collectible Card Banality
It takes something special to get me invested in one of the wave of mobile collectible card games seeking to ride on the overwhelming success of Rage of Bahamut—it took Transformers to get me to appreciate the appeal of the genre. With its eye-catching pixelated style, DeNA’s D.O.T. Defenders of Texel threatened to be the…
By Mike Fahey Published January 15, 2013 -
6 GIFS of Raiden Looking Cool in Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance
Mr. Gergő Vas is at it again, taking a slick new gaming trailer and boiling it down to several stellar GIFs. His subject today is the newest trailer for next month’s Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance Show us some GIFs, Gergő! Here’s the full trailer. The game will be out on February 19 for the PS3…
By Stephen Totilo Published January 15, 2013 -
Bake Shop Drop is Not a Game to Play If You’re Counting Calories
A drop-based matching game recently launched on Facebook from Broken Bulb Game Studios, Bake Shop Drop is an addictive little game that has me quite conflicted—do I play another round, or run to the store for cupcakes? The pieces are frosted cake slices, sprinkled doughnuts, chocolate chip cookies and red velvet cupcakes. The power-ups are…
By Mike Fahey Published January 15, 2013 -
The Video Games That Showed Up When I Least Expected Them
A controller gets put down. A disc gets shelved next to dozens of others just like it. But, sometimes, the game lingers. It creeps into your sleep and live on in the backs of your eyelids, demanding ever more from you. Here’s an example: the one night that the crazy nocturnal zombies from Alan Wake…
By Evan Narcisse Published January 15, 2013 -
This Game’s Special Edition Comes With A Statue Of A Bikini-Clad, Severed Female Torso
If you are a severed torso fetishist or serial killer, you will undoubtedly be ecstatic to know that one special edition of Dead Island: Riptide comes with the above statue. Fans of bloody female torsos clad in UK flag bikinis can go out and pre-order the “Zombie Bait” edition of Deep Silver’s upcoming open-world action…
By Jason Schreier Published January 15, 2013 -
The Vita port of Edmund McMillen’s demonic roguelike The Binding of Isaac might look like this. [Twitter]
By Evan Narcisse Published January 15, 2013 -
After 128 Days In Jail, Arma III Developers Finally Get To Go Home
Two game developers from Czech Republic-based Bohemia Interactive (Arma III), who were jailed in Greece for the past 218 days, will finally be able to go home, according to Czech media reports translated on a site dedicated to the men’s release. Ivan Buchta and Martin Pezlar had been facing up to 20 years in prison…
By Stephen Totilo Published January 15, 2013 -
Original Devil May Cry Creator Sticks Up For the New DmC
Game developer Hideki Kamiya of Platinum Games and recent Bayonetta fame will field just about any question on Twitter, whether he’s well-versed on a topic or not. Something he knows a ton about? Devil May Cry games. Kamiya was the director on the original Devil May Cry back in 2001 and a very good authority…
By Stephen Totilo Published January 15, 2013 -
This Week’s iPhone Charts: The Minecraft Connection
Welcome to the all-new, all-improved, all much simpler formatted as to not kill myself every morning weekly app rankings. The ponderous and sloppy image-heavy format has been exchanged for a tasteful table, which makes it much easier to notice things like Minecraft proper and a 2D Minecraft “homage” holding both number two spots in the…
By Mike Fahey Published January 15, 2013 -
The World’s Largest Snowball Fight Saw Over 5,000 People Engage In Deadly Combat
Last weekend, 5,834 people convened in Seattle for the world’s largest snowball fight. Set amongst a battlefield of 160,000 tonnes of snow, it doesn’t look like any snowball fight I’ve ever been in. It looks like the beginning of Terminator 2. Only with less skulls. World’s Largest Snowball Fight – Contour Cameras – Snow Day…
By Luke Plunkett Published January 15, 2013 -
Zone of the Enders Is Pretty in Pink
This March, a new Zone of the Enders figure will be released, and perhaps will find a spot on your desk. Z.O.E., of course, is the sci-fi mecha series from Metal Gear creator Hideo Kojima. The figure is of Z.O.E. mecha Ardjet, which is piloted by Ken Marinaris from Z.O.E.: The 2nd Runner It’s priced…
By Brian Ashcraft Published January 15, 2013 -
Cosplaying Comedian Says No to Marijuana
Sakura-Saki Inagaki isn’t your typical comedian. She dresses as Asuka Langley from Neon Genesis Evangelion. She isn’t only a cosplaying entertainer. She’s a cosplaying entertainer who doesn’t want you to smoke drugs. For the past few years, the Osaka Pharmaceutical Association has printed and distributed pamphlets depicting Inagaki, crossing her arms in an “X”, the…
By Brian Ashcraft Published January 15, 2013 -
Snow Dicks and Cute Characters: Winter Hijinks Cover Tokyo.
Yesterday a snow storm blew through Tokyo, blanketing the metropolis in white. For Tokyo, this was the first snowfall of 2013, and residents did not let the opportunity for some winter fun pass them by. Creative types sculpted nude torsos, sea creatures, and of course numerous manga, anime, and video game characters. Then, there were…
By Brian Ashcraft Published January 15, 2013