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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…
by Brandy Shaul | Games.com Published December 20, 2012 -
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,…
By Stephen Totilo Published December 20, 2012 -
EA Mobile’s big holiday sale is go, with more than 100 iPhone and iPad games on sale for $.99 or less.
By Mike Fahey Published December 20, 2012 -
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.…
By Owen Good Published December 20, 2012 -
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…
By Mike Fahey Published December 20, 2012 -
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…
By Owen Good Published December 20, 2012 -
After Sandy Hook And Virginia Tech, I’m Done With Violent Video Games
I think I am done. I have been an avid gamer since I received my first system—the then-just-released NES—when I was six. From the moment I picked up the light gun and downed my first duck, I was hooked. For nearly 30 years I have squashed anthropomorphic mushrooms, cleaved zombies, and eviscerated the avatars of…
By Jeremy Norman Published December 20, 2012 -
Square Enix Will Bring Final Fantasy V ‘And More’ Games To iOS
At the end of this trailer for Final Fantasy IV—which is out today on iOS for the Square Enix-ish price of $16—there’s a Very Special Teaser. Final Fantasy V! And more! This is very cool, especially if they keep going through the years. While the first four Final Fantasy games have already been re-released seven…
By Jason Schreier Published December 20, 2012 -
A Rare Arcade Game Killed by an Atari Lawsuit Comes Back to Life After 25 Years
Maybe you’re like me and never heard of 1980s arcade game Meteors. If you guessed that it was a clone of Asteroids, though, you’d be right. The coin-op arcade game stood at the center of a lawsuit aimed by Atari at competitor Amusement World. Video game designer/scholar Ian Bogost runs down the impact of the…
By Evan Narcisse Published December 20, 2012 -
I Admit Defeat. The Icarus Box Has Bested Me.
I have stared and poked at this image for more than an hour over the past two days. I touch it, a red card pops up and a buzzer sounds. I have no idea what to do here, and The Icarus Box isn’t keen to tell me. The Icarus Box is a puzzle/horror/mystery game for…
By Mike Fahey Published December 20, 2012 -
Man Dressed As Super Mario Arrested For Groping Woman In Times Square
As a general rule, you probably shouldn’t grope people without their permission. But if you’re going to grope people without their permission, you really shouldn’t do it while wearing a Super Mario costume. Damon Torres, a 34-year-old street performer who solicits money by wearing costumes and posing for pictures in New York City’s Times Square,…
By Jason Schreier Published December 20, 2012 -
Cooking Mama on iOS is reborn as the free Cooking Mama Seasons. Shouldn’t that be Cooking Mama Seasonings?
By Mike Fahey Published December 20, 2012 -
Sony Releasing Custom God of War Control Pad
To cash in on the upcoming release of God of War: Ascension, Sony Japan will be releasing this custom Kratos-themed DualShock 3 controller. It’s not exactly subtle, but I actually like the skin-tone shade they’ve gone for, makes a nice change from the bolder stuff companies normally choose for controller colour schemes. The pad will…
By Luke Plunkett Published December 20, 2012 -
Far Cry 3 Isn’t Racist. You Just Didn’t Get It.
Don’t get me wrong, I loved Far Cry 3. It’s a magical game. But at the same time, the further I got through the game’s story, the more uncomfortable it made me feel. Yeah, there’s the racist stuff, but also just the sense that, oh dear, one of the best games of the year is…
By Luke Plunkett Published December 20, 2012 -
Team Fortress 2 Celebrates Christmas With… Godzilla Tributes And Giant Robot Engineers
Team Fortress 2 just got itself a big Christmas update. I’m so far past playing this game that the significance is lost on me, but hey, that giant Godzilla poster is awesome. Mecha Update [Team Fortress 2]
By Luke Plunkett Published December 20, 2012 -
Diablo III Bans Thousands Of Robots
The world of Diablo III is a little less mechanical today, with Blizzard having made recent steps to ban a ton of people who were using bots. It wasn’t a handful of folks, either. It was “several thousand”, all in the name of rooting out those causing “technical problems with the game” and “undermining the…
By Luke Plunkett Published December 20, 2012