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The Imperfect Art of Judging a Game Before It’s Out

Last Friday morning, my words on this site told you that BioShock Infinite, the long-in-the-works first-person shooter from one of the most respected game development studios in the world, was coming along very well. On Friday evening, if you were watching Spike’s Video Game Awards, your eyes might have told you otherwise. What can you…

You Can Assassinate Those Flying Prometheans In Halo 4 And Other Myths Confirmed

If you need an extra competitive edge in Halo 4 look no further than defendthehouse’s series of myths confirmed and busted. The beauty of multiplayer games is in discovering how items work together and just how far they’ll go. Hopefully some of these in the video above are new to you. And here’s the second…

A Spoilerific Montage In Memory of The Video Game Characters That Died This Year

It’s been a long year, riddled with many deaths. In memory of all the friends and even foes we’ve watched die in video games, here’s a montage (of some, not all) of them put into one video. It should come as no surprise that there are many, many spoilers in this video. So proceed with…

These Belles Are Shooting Up the Sky and Dropping Bombs

When an air combat game seems based on females painted on World War II bombers, you should know what you are getting into. Ditto for a game named Bombshells: Hell’s Belles that stars female pilots. Bombshells, geddit? But Bombshells is more than it first appears to be. In the game, you are facing off against…

Why I’m Glad We’ll Be Able to Play Sportsfriends‘ Wacky Sports Games

I’ve never forgotten Epyx Summer Games on the Commodore 64. A significant chunk of my teenage years were spent in a neighbor’s basement with crossed fingers, hoping that the collection of digital sports competitions would load and then that it wouldn’t crash. I didn’t know what the hell hackeysack was but I knew I had…

Gamevil’s Baseball Superstars 2013 has launched free on Google Play. So much anime baseball goodness.

Gorgeous Games of 2012: Halo 4

To say that Halo 4 was a pretty game would not be doing it justice. Walking through that world was like walking through amazing concept art, complete with stunning sunsets and floating monoliths. It truly was a sight to behold. We already took a look at Journey’s placid beauty. We continue in our series of…

Valve Wants To Get Dota 2 Running On Tablets

Dota 2 on your iPad? It could happen. At the VGAs on Friday night, I asked Valve boss Gabe Newell if they were working on any interesting software projects. He said they were indeed. “We were working on getting Dota 2 running on some tablets,” he said. “That ended up being kind of a disappointment.…

$26 Transforms Your iPhone or iPad Into the Ultimate Official Pokédex

Released last month in Japan, the official iOS Pokédex application is now available in North America and beyond, giving Pokémon fans around the globe access to the ultimate pocket monster compendium. Just don’t expect a kindly tree-named professor to hand it over for free. The official Pokédex app starts fans out with the critters from…

Assassin’s Creed III DLC Gives Both Connor and George Washington Alternate Histories

Unveiled at Friday night’s VGAs, the trailer for Assassin’s Creed III‘s next big DLC throws players into a world where George Washington became a malevolent despot instead of America’s first president. Considering how Connor was a close ally of the iconic general in Assassin’s Creed III, the potential for drama is high in this expansion.…

The Good And Bad of Battlefield 3, One Year (Or So) Later

Last year, Swedish-based developers Digital Illusions CE set out to launch not just a game, but an experience—an ever-changing and evolving experiment, if you will—which would serve as a platform from which future Battlefield titles would stem. More than a year after the release, after more than a year of patches, updates, rule-changes and several…

This Week’s Facebook Winners and Losers: Ruby Blast Adventures Wins at Losing

Despite recent efforts to revitalize the game with an element of progression, Ruby Blast Adventures digs itself a 2 million player hole in this week’s Facebook winners and losers. Maybe the thrill of adventure is wearing thin, or perhaps the recently released mobile version of Ruby Blast is sucking players away from the browser-based version…

Flying Around Far Cry 3 With Wings Strapped To Your Arms

Since you can’t charter a joyflight to give you a leisurely look at Far Cry 3 in its entirety, you’ll just have to do the next best thing: watch someone jump off a roof wearing a wingsuit and film it. There are points where it borders on being the intro to some epic fantasy movie,…

10-Year-Old Girl Steals Over $1,600 to Play Video Games

No one ever suspected a child when about $1600 went missing from a cellphone shop until after security cameras caught the little scamp crawling on the floor behind the counter. Now in Quangang, Fujian province, a 10 year-old girl is in hot water after being caught stealing money, quite a lot of money at that,…

Rumor: Hey Americans! Foxconn Is Apparently Building Factories In LA And Detroit

The Taiwanese tech manufacturing giant, Foxconn Electronics, is rumored to be starting up manufacturing plants in the US next year, moving away from its long time “home” base of mainland China. According to rumors floating around the internet, mostly courtesy of the Taiwanese Digitimes, Foxconn is planning to start up factories in either Los Angeles…

Grown Man Attacks Child Over a Yu-Gi-Oh! Card Game

Losing gracefully is hard. Winning gracefully ain’t easy, either. A 29 year-old man in Fukuoka never learned the latter, it seems. According to Sponichi Annex, the man was recently playing the Yu-Gi-Oh! card battle game against an 11 year-old boy in a card shop. After the man won twice, the sixth grader got up to…

Young Chinese Surgeon Attributes Medical Success To Long Nights of Counter Strike

Post 80’s generation Chinese (people born on and after 1980) get a lot of flack in China for being a group of entitled children. The reasoning behind this scorn for the post 80’s generation partially has to do with the fact that they were born during a time when China first started economic reforms and…

J.J. Abrams Should Direct the Metal Gear Movie

While in Los Angeles for the Video Game Awards, Metal Gear creator Hideo Kojima squeezed in some Hollywood meetings: One was with producer Avi Arad; the other was with filmmaker J.J. Abrams. The tweets didn’t exactly offer any details. In one, Kojima said he had a meeting with Arad about the movie. In the other,…

Love Don’t Cost A Thing, Well Maybe An iPhone 4

A young boy in Wuhan, Hubei province, was left heartbroken over the weekend when he learned that his feelings for a girl in his class were unrequited. After learning the object of his affections didn’t feel the same, he decided to ask her directly only to be told “xxx bought me an iPhone 4”. After…

It’s Like The Last Guardian, Only With Link. And a Cat.

When I reviewed my amazing little Link figma last month, I was missing one thing for my photoshoot: a cat. This is Moire, one of Japan’s most famous internet cats (though of course not the most famous), messing around with a Link figma. If Beyoncé can advertise the DS, this is about as fitting an…