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Five Comics That Merge Science and Magic This Week

If you’re here in the Panel Discussion programming block, you might be a lapsed comics reader, trying to find a way back to the JLA Satellite. Or you might someone killing time until you pick up your weekly Wednesday pull list. Or maybe you’ve said goodbye to dozens of longboxes to embrace the promise of…

The Sonic/Mega Man Comics Crossover Might Be the Closest We Get a Sega vs. Capcom Throwdown

Let’s get real: Sonic doesn’t stand a chance. Sure, he’s fast. You see that energy build-up in the Mega Buster pictured below? That’s a recipe for roasted hedgehog, right there. But, wait, you say! Couldn’t Sonic disassemble Mega Man at super-speed before Capcom’s icon could even get a blast off? The answers to these questions…

Microsoft Sold 750,000 Xbox 360s Last Week

Turns out people like video games, and buying video games, and buying machines to play video games on. Microsoft sold a whopping 750,000 Xbox 360s in the United States between Sunday, November 18 and Friday, November 23 (Black Friday), according to spokesman Major Nelson. Not too shabby! For comparison, Nintendo sold 400,000 Wii U consoles…

The Weapons In Far Cry 3 Are Great, But The Weapon Descriptions Are Even Better

Far Cry 3 features a varied and highly enjoyable arsenal—you’ll use all the first-person shooter staples, from silenced sniper rifles to grenade launchers to my favorite, the silent Rambo bow. But as cool as these deadly tools are, the way the game describes them all is just as cool. Right off the bat, you get…

The Vita Is A Great System—Too Bad Sony Screwed It Up

Have you checked out that Vita game? You know—the one that’s a shoddy spinoff of a big-name series? Perhaps Call of Duty: Declassified, which currently has a whopping 32% on Metacritic? Or Uncharted: Golden Abyss, a game that our Kirk Hamilton called “a cut-rate version of the Uncharted games that most people have already played”?…

Play Dominion Online in Your Browser Right Now

Goko, the multiplatform headquarters for mature board and card games, has launched in open beta, giving strategy-minded players a chance to play all the Dominion Online, Forbidden City and All the King’s Men their devious little hearts’ desire. There are more than 150 games lined up for Goko, using HTML 5 as a universal gaming…

Spacetime Studios’ free massively multiplayer online fantasy RPG Arcane Legends is now available for iPhone and iPad

New Super Mario Bros. 2‘s New, Free* Levels Are Re-Makes Of Old Ones

The new Nintendo Direct Mini isn’t about the Wii Mini. It’s about new/old New Super Mario Bros. 2 levels that are temporarily free on the Nintendo 3DS. Not too confusing, right? Skip to 3:50 to see the levels. They may ring some bells. Nintendo Direct Mini — November 27, 2012 [YouTube. Thanks, Philip!]] UPDATE: So……

FarmVille Mistletoe Lane Chapter 4 Goals: Everything You Need to Know

It’s time for another chapter in FarmVille‘s Mistletoe Lane saga, and we’re ready for Chapter 4 in the tale of Nick and the elves from Winter Wonderland. This goal series sees Zang taking a trip from Winter Wonderland to help Nick restore the town’s Toy Factory, and we’re here with a guide to finishing them…

Ian Bogost’s appraisal of the Wii U looks at the new console and Nintendo’s long, twisting history in shifting contexts.

The Tide of Battle Quickly Turns Once You Realize Your Enemy is Delicious

For years the peaceful-yet-pecking Hoggyens battled the relentless Gobblen hordes that rained down from the sky. Then one day the embattled hedgehog creatures discovered their demonic nemeses’ fatal flaw: they are delicious. This is why giant slingshots get built, people. Little Guy Games’ Super Snack Time is a bubble-popping game on a sugar high. Your…

The Saddest Video Game Character You Will Ever See

There’s a bit of Pinocchio in Mega Man’s story, what with the kindly father figure creating a “son” out of artificial materials. And, yeah, there’s some melancholy in there, too. Melancholy that digital artist Madec Brice captures in his beautiful portrait of the Blue Bomber. Over on DeviantArt, Brice also mines the loneliness that must…

Hollywood Monsters is The Next Big Thing on iOS

No, that’s not hype. Released last year on PC under the title The Next Big Thing, Hollywood Monsters is a hilarious adventure game from the creators of Runaway, and its coming to your iDevices December 6. Mobile is quickly becoming a second home to the point-and-click adventure game, what with tablets and smart phones being…

Dunwall City Trials—the previously announced challenge DLC for Dishonored—will be coming out on Dec. 11

The Today Show Fails at the Wii U

Yesterday morning’s Today Show featured the Wii U, the hot new Nintendo console that’s like a tablet merged with a game console. Should be great for live TV, right? Not quite, as you can see above. At least no one has thrown a Wii U GamePad through a TV screen yet. Remember that stuff? Let’s…

This Week’s iPhone Charts: The Cheapest Dental Surgery Available

The magic of mobile gaming affords us countless opportunities to explore magical worlds filled with happiness and joy and comfort. Or we could just take a hammer to our teeth. I must admit that when I first saw Dental Surgery at the top of this week’s free iPhone app charts, I downloaded it immediately. Within…

Yes, Robot Chicken, Kratos Should Be Embarrassed if Sackboy Kicks His Butt

Robot Chicken’s brand of geek humor gets a lot of mileage from imagining the messed-up stuff fictional characters get up to when they’re not busy being all heroic or villainous. So, yeah, a breakroom filled with the cast of PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale would be boiling over with all of the shame and neediness you…

Here’s a Devastating Account of the Crap Women in the Games Business Have to Deal With. In 2012.

Over the past 24 hours or so, a number of women working in the game industry (and some male colleagues) have taken to Twitter to share their stories via the hashtag #1reasonwhy They’re not motivational tales. Instead, they’re accounts of the rampant sexism and discrimination many have faced in the past, and are still facing…

The Wii Mini Looks Glorious, Lacks Internet and GameCube Games [Update: Canada Exclusive]

Earlier tonight, a teeny-tiny image of the Wii Mini’s box appeared online. Here’s a better look at the console itself. And hot damn, it’s lovely looking. Smaller than the regular console, the Wii Mini has a red casing and a rough, matte finish with a Wii logo dead in the middle. It appears to be…

Chinese Newspaper Believes The Onion, Really Thinks Kim Jong-un Is The Sexiest Man Alive

People’s Daily is China’s newspaper of record. It’s the paper of the Chinese Communist Party—a mouthpiece of the government. And today, it figured out that The Onion is not America’s newspaper of record. If you’ve been on the internet since forever, you know that The Onion is a humor site that satirizes the news. People’s…