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SimCity Social Night Mayor Quests: Everything You Need to Know
With just days left before Halloween, EA and Playfish have finally brought the holiday to SimCity Social on Facebook via the release of the Trick or Treat Trail. This timed event will see us interacting with vampires, werewolves, ghosts, zombies and more as we complete five different quest lines over the next week. That’s not…
by Brandy Shaul | Games.com Published October 26, 2012 -
Someone Found A Rainbow Road in Forza Horizon
In the midst of the beautiful, open roads of Colorado found in this year’s Forza game is a hidden surprise: Mario Kart‘s Rainbow Road. Ok, ok. It’s not really Rainbow Road. It’s a glitch found by AmetDj2. But if you close your eyes real tight and replay the fond memories of performing the famous shortcut…
By Tina Amini Published October 26, 2012 -
Old Video Game In Family’s Attic Turns Out To Be Extremely Rare, Possibly Worth $30,000
Air Raid was a mediocre game released in 1982 for the Atari 2600. Very few copies were produced or sold, which means that thirty years later, it’s an extraordinarily valuable collector’s item. Polygon reports that a new copy of Air Raid has surfaced, complete with box and manual. It’s the manual that makes this particular…
By Kate Cox Published October 26, 2012 -
Explore Far Cry 3‘s Minecraft Space Now. It’s Got 50 Easter Eggs.
We already knew that a Far Cry 3 destination would be hitting Minecraft. And now it looks like the bizarre crossover between trippy, drug-fueled shooter and open-world construction sandbox has gone live. You’ll be able to wander through this addition to Mojang’s blocky landscapes and look for Far Cry 3 characters like madman antagonist Vaas…
By Evan Narcisse Published October 26, 2012 -
Dragonvale with Robots?! You Bastards.
On no less than two separate occasions have I bemoaned the addictive nature of iPhone breeding game Dragonvale, the mobile game I’ve played longer than any other. Now Backflip Studios takes the same formula and applies it to robots. Dammit. Gizmonauts, now available on the iTunes App Store, is a robot breeding game. This should…
By Mike Fahey Published October 26, 2012 -
Darksiders II’s Death Sure Loves His Loot
Just when you think you know where this live-action short from Somewhat Awesome Films is going, it, uh, surprises you. Vigil Games added a deeper level of customization to Darksiders II and its central character apparently can’t get enough of all the goodies he finds. Except for Resident Evil 6. Can’t say I blame him…
By Evan Narcisse Published October 26, 2012 -
This Week’s iPad Charts: I Told You He Had the Power
Last week I debuted the new and improved iPad gaming app charts, delivering the top free and paid apps in a relatively easy-to-read format. This week He-Man shows up and kicks the entries all over the place. Dear iPad gamers, the charts are not very dynamic if you keep loading new games onto them. I…
By Mike Fahey Published October 26, 2012 -
Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Comes To iOS And Android This Fall
To celebrate the upcoming 10th anniversary of Grand Theft Auto: Vice City (on October 29!), Rockstar will re-release the popular game on mobile platforms this fall. “Grand Theft Auto: Vice City gave players the freedom of a massive open-world in one of the most iconic and vibrant settings ever realized in a game,” Rockstar founder…
By Jason Schreier Published October 26, 2012 -
This Is Toy Story Replicated In Source Filmmaker, And It Gets A Bit Weird
Okay prepare for something a bit incredible, but also very, very strange. This is a scene from Toy Story, reanimated and rebuilt using Source Filmmaker. It starts off weird, then it gets kinda hilarious, then it gets weird again. I can’t really explain why, but I totally love it. The fact that it’s so jarred,…
By Mark Serrels Published October 26, 2012 -
This Mario Gun Will Shoot You in the Awesomeness
Custom toy genius Kody Koala is back. This time he’s turned a Nerf gun into a Mario gun. According to Kody Koala (aka Donald), “I used a Nerf Nite Finder, Mag lite mini flashlight, a PVC pipe, and an old Super Mario Sound Drop key chain that I had lying around.” Kody Koala is thinking…
By Brian Ashcraft Published October 26, 2012 -
Here’s Everything I Learned About Borderlands Legends
Have you heard? One of this year’s most exciting releases—Borderlands 2—is getting an iOS complement…sort of. The mobile game—called Borderlands Legends—is part shooter, part RPG, part action, and part strategy. Yes, all those things. And somehow, except for the occasional clutter, it works pretty well. From an angled projection, top-down view, you’ll control the original…
By Tina Amini Published October 26, 2012 -
Charizard Sets Japan Ablaze with a Special 3DS XL
This isn’t a matter of having enough badges to train Charizard—you’re going to need to win a raffle to snag this limited edition 3DS XL. Between November 3 and November 26 at Pokémon Center retail shops across Japan (or via mail-in), you can enter to win the chance to buy this very special 3DS XL…
By Brian Ashcraft Published October 26, 2012 -
They Pirated His Game, But This Developer is Giving Tech Support Anyway
Jonatan Soderstrom, one of the duo behind the fantastic Hotline Miami, should be the last person on Earth giving advice to people pirating his games. So it’s weird/nice to see him actually being one of the first. On the game’s thread at torrent site The Pirate Bay (and spotted by PC Gamer), Soderstrom has dropped…
By Luke Plunkett Published October 26, 2012 -
Hey Samsung, Don’t Drag Video Games Into Your Apple Pissing Match
In case you’ve been living under a rock for the past 12 months, the epic legal battle between Apple and Samsung has been one of the biggest tech stories of the year. It’s a bitter fued, with billions at stake, so it’s sad to see poor little ol’ video games dragged into the fight in…
By Luke Plunkett Published October 26, 2012 -
Square Enix is Spying on You (But It’s To Make Better Games)
When you blindly click “agree” on Square Enix’s online terms & conditions, you probably didn’t notice that you’re saying you agree to allow the publisher to record the way you play a game. While this sounds nefarious, it’s actually part of an operation run from an office in London—and detailed in this MCV report—whose job…
By Luke Plunkett Published October 26, 2012 -
We Are One Step (And Short Jump) Closer To Real Metal Gears
Terrifying robot watch update: in the video above, a Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) robot called “Pet-Proto” is locked in a corridor and presented with two obstacles. The first is a step it must climb onto. The second is a gap it must inch across. It’s like a video game tutorial. Only instead of…
By Luke Plunkett Published October 26, 2012 -
Team Fortress 2 Gets Zombies in Halloween-Themed “Scream Fortress” Event
Just a few months after cold, unfeeling automatons came to Valve’s hit co-op shooter in Mann vs. Machine, the publisher’s unleashing waves of the undead on Team Fortress 2 According to Polygon, an update to the Team Fortress 2 website announced a two-week Scream Fortress event that will herald the return of necromancer Merasmus, who…
By Evan Narcisse Published October 25, 2012 -
16 Years Later, Super Mario 64 Gets Co-op
Just when you thought one of the world’s greatest ever video games couldn’t get more perfect, along comes modder Skelux to pile more icing on top of the cake. Super Mario 64, for 16 years a singleplayer adventure (well, DS version excepted), has been modified to include a co-op mode. You can see it in…
By Luke Plunkett Published October 25, 2012 -
If The Exorcist Had Been An 80s Sitcom…
It’s almost Halloween, which means it’s time to break out our ironic re-cuts of famous horror films and make them seem different than they actually were! I enjoyed this recut by Film School Rejects, though, mostly because it doesn’t just use happy images; it also uses some disturbing ones. And hey, while we’re here, let’s…
By Kirk Hamilton Published October 25, 2012