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Brutal Legend is a heartfelt heavy metal Wizard of Oz
Brutal Legend isn't a very smooth game, which is surprising considering the low-rent graphics engine. It seems like it was...See the Mars colonization game killed by The Sims
Artist Ward Moore has on his site details about SimMars, a Maxis game that was apparently canceled in the 90s...Gamespotting: Between Two Ferns with Zach Galifianakis
I can't help but wonder if Electronic Arts knew what they were getting into when (if?) they paid for...Lego Rock Band song list is also Rock Band song list
Even if you're not into playing the family friendly Lego Rock Band, if you buy the game and pay a...Left 4 Dead 2 goes to the mall
One of the advantages of being bilingual is that when a website from another country breaks a story, you can...What's black and white and new to Midnight Club: Los Angeles?
Now that you can download a free pack of police cars, Midnight Club: Los Angeles goes from "eff tha police"...Alice doesn't live at Sims 3 blog anymore
Robin Burkinshaw concludes his Sims 3 series on the homeless hapless father/daughter team of Kev and Alice. While she's not...Marvel Ultimate Alliance 2 getting an unlikely new superhero
There's a new superhero playable villain coming to Marvel Ultimate Alliance 2. A dude named Carnage will be available as...October 12, 2009: wallet threat level rock n' roll red
Brutal Legend is a dire threat to your wallet this week that merits its own color code. Rock n' roll...Fatale's heroine will not be ignored
My apologies to the folks at Tale of Tales who made The Path and Fatale. I gave Fatale a brief...Six things you should know before you buy Brutal Legend
Brutal Legend comes out next week. If you care enough about it to have downloaded and played the demo, you're...How starships work in Star Trek Online
The Star Trek Online official site has been doing a great job laying out how the gameplay will differ from...Motorstorm: Arctic Edge will leave racing fans cold
MotorStorm for the Playstation 3 has been a "great graphics, great racing, great multiplayer, shame about the career mode" series....Left 4 Dead 2 asks, "Got fuel?"
Shack News got some hands-on time with the new "Scavenge" mode in Left 4 Dead 2. In this timed mode,...Rock Band invites you to rock out with your iPhone out
Here's a game that was going to happen sooner of later: Rock Band for the iPhone. IGN breaks the news...See the five-years-ago version of the biggest explosion ever
What happens when a game has been out so long that hardware has not only caught up with its...Jack Black promotes the wrong game at Brutal Legend event
You might be enthusiastic about next week's release of Brutal Legend. I'm here to help. Watch the above video,...Forza 3 will come with extra stuff for free
Apparently 400 cars are not enough. So when Forza 3 comes out, you'll be able to download a pack of...Dragon Age will come with extra stuff for extra money
Apparently a vast living fantasy world is not enough. So when Dragon Age comes out, you'll be able to download...When is a patch not a patch? When it's for East India Company.
The historical strategy game East India Company is getting a new patch, but it's not called a patch. It's called...Fatale doesn't get very far without its femme
The folks who made The Path (reviewed here) have released Fatale, their next game. Well, "game". They'll be the first...Mickey Mouse's newest nemesis revealed
That guy up there is Oswald the Rabbit, pictured in a limited edition cel from a 1920s animated short. According...Is Metroid Prime the Citizen Kane of videogames?
I'm not sure what I'd say if someone asked me which game is to videogaming what Citizen Kane is to...The Wii lightsaber: "You...want...this?"
Just in time for the release of Star Wars Clone Troopers: Republic Heroes comes a Wii lightsaber! You snap the...Demon's Souls tutorial is a real killer. Literally.
Publisher Atlus offers some mostly spoiler-free tips for new Demon's Souls players. They lead with a warning that this isn't...Ultimate Alliance 2 is the ultimate post-9/11 superhero revue
Sometimes while I'm playing Marvel Ultimate Alliance 2, a superhero or villain shows up for a conversation or maybe a...Nintendo no longer content to beat other videogame companies
It's not enough that Nintendo has trounced Microsoft and Sony. Now they're moving on up, trouncing companies like Apple, Google,...Activision announces mixed up song list for DJ Hero
Activision has released the complete song list for DJ Hero, one of their various attempts to get you to buy...Behind the scenes of Halo ODST's live-action commercial
Check out the above behind-the-scenes featurette detailing how the ODST live action commercial was made. Given how good fan...Native Americans and AI fixes come to Empire: Total War
If you feel like paying Creative Assembly another ten bucks, now you can download the Warpath add-on campaign for Empire:...Game Informer teases Disney's dark Mickey Mouse game
Hey, here's some news about upcoming news! In the run up to their November issue, Game Informer will be teasing...More details revealed about World of Warcraft movie
IMDB shows a new subtitle for the World of Warcraft movie: "The Rise of the Lich King". Worldofwarcraft.net parses the...But how would Raph Koster do as a cantina dancer?
The Sixytone is an online collection of listener-created music with a sort of Digg rating system by which the...See Jimmy Fallon treat Brutal Legend like a movie opening
On the Friday Late Night with Jimmy Fallon, host Fallon explained why Burtal Legends designer Tim Schafer was a...Which looks better? Risen or Gothic 3?
PC Games Hardware has posted screenshots directly comparing Gothic 3 with the recently released Risen, both created by the same...Sims 3 saga comes to an end today. Oh, wait, no it doesn't.
Robin Burkinshaw announced on Friday that the saga of Alice and Kev would come to end today. He posted the...October 5, 2009: wallet threat level yellow
Your wallet will face a lot of intriguing threats this week, but I don't have much first-hand intel about any...Gamespotting: Zombieland
Where will you be when the zombie apocalypse strikes? In order to reinforce that he's a neurotic loser, Zombieland situates...Developers go undercover to balance Sins of a Solar Empire
You know how real time strategy games occasionally get patches that rebalance everything, throwing into disarray all the relationships you...Ambitious Left 4 Dead mod also pays for an education
Ryan O'Koren is a student at Towson University in Baltimore, Maryland. He is also a longtime modder of Half-Life games,...Five-year-old has a real life Resident Evil 5 encounter
If me and Simon Hughes ever play co-op Resident Evil 5, he gets the sniper rifle and all the...Ice Age director attached to Spore movie
Plenty of videogames sell the rights to a movie tie-in. Some of those even get scripts written. A few of...Where have you heard Zombie Apocalypse's music before?
Zombie Apocalypse kept making me think of 28 Days Later, but I wasn't sure why. It's nothing specific to the...Here's your chance to try the best racing game of the year
You don't have to take my word for it anymore. Now you can see for yourself whether Need for Speed:...Here's your chance to try the worst racing game of the year
After years of hype, expectation, and delay, developer Polyphony Digital finally brings Sony's flagship racing series to Sony's handheld system!...Tower defense games in the next Lord of the Rings Online add-on
The next paid expansion for Lord of the Rings Online is The Siege of Mirkwood, which will be available December...Map pack coming for Modern Warfare 2; also, sky reportedly blue
Shacknews has discovered that Activision intends to release a map pack for Modern Warfare 2 this spring. In other news,...Your Section 8 travel guide: what to pack and when to pack it
Every time you spawn in Section 8, you can choose your loadout. Do you go with the heavy weapons? The...A great disturbance in the Star Wars Old Republic beta sign-up
Did you feel that bump in the Internet yesterday? It was as if a million souls suddenly cried out to...Gran Turismo's unique perspective on how to brutalize a Ferrari
Yesterday we saw how Forza 3 has mad love for Ferraris. To balance that out, have a look at...Study finds friends don't get off on fragging friends
When you beat someone in a competition, you experience a surge of testosterone. However, a study suggests this is only...Brand new Quake Wars map isn't what you expect
I was pretty excited to see on Voodoo Extreme that there's a new Quake Wars map, created by one of...Gamespotting: House M.D.'s Epic Fail
This week's episode of House M.D. features a game developer who succumbs to a mysterious disease, natch. In the episode's...Zombie Apocalypse offers a bird's eye version of Left 4 Dead
When you first jump into Zombie Apocalypse, it's going to seem awfully shallow. And it is. At first. But as...Forza 3 thinks you can never have enough Ferraris
So how many Ferraris are there in Forza 3, Microsoft's upcoming magnum opus racing game for the Xbox 360? Developer..."Aren't you a little short for a Big Daddy?"
Alternatively, maybe she's just too tall for a Little Sister. Either way, that's tremendous work. Here's how Atlanta prop-maker...What's the deal with Crash Course campaign for Left 4 Dead?
Some people suspect Valve is releasing "Crash Course", the new campaign for Left 4 Dead, to placate angry fans who...Strange Adventures in Infinite Space no longer for sale
You might have missed Strange Adventures in Infinite Space, which came out four years ago. It was a cross between...Nine things NFS: Shift does that other racing games don't
One of the biggest surprises in this year of truly great racing games is Need for Speed: Shift, which not...My Little God of War doesn't need brush for its beautiful mane
If there's one way to one-up a Gordon Freeman My Little Pony, it's a Kratos My Little Pony, complete with...Metal Gear Solid developer's shocking experiments revealed
At the Tokyo Games Show, it was revealed that Metal Gear Solid developer Hideo Kojima experimented with a custom controller...September 28, 2009: wallet threat level green
The biggest non-threat to your wallet this week is the PSP Go, Sony's UMD-less redesign of their handheld that you...What you don't know about Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2
There are some huge surprises. What's awesome is, we've done all the press we've done so far...and yet there is...Shift asks you to forget the Need for Speed you thought you knew
Need for Speed: Shift might be the most aptly named Need for Speed you'll ever play. The series has been...Pinball FX staves off authentic 50s-era alien invasion
I can't really figure out if it's an awesome time or a terrible time to release a new table for...Square and Popcap "borrow" Puzzle Quest, give it a new Twist
The above trailer debuted at the Tokyo Game Show to coincide with the announcement that Popcap and Square/Enix have...Playstation 3 motion controller comes with Kirby action figure
Look, Sony, I know you've had a rough time of it. I say this as one of the mean kids...Why you're going to want to play the new Ratchet & Clank
I got a closer look at Ratchet & Clank: A Crack in Time at a press event last night, and...Batman likes the Playstation 3 better than the Xbox 360
Here's something you don't see every day: exclusive content on the Playstation 3 for a multiplatform release. Not to mention...Filmmaker wins $50,000 for virtually annoying Tiger Woods
The above video was shot using a green screen, an actor, and footage from the latest Tiger Woods game...Xbox Live invites you to test drive another great racing game
As if you didn't already have enough racing goodness with Wipeout HD Fury, Clutch, Dirt 2, and Need for Speed:...This is what it would look like if you disembowled R2-D2
Fidgit's sister site DVICE apparently thought this was pretty cute. I'm still a little traumatized. Yeah, I know it's a...Whatever you do, don't buy a Nintendo Wii right now!
As everyone expected after the news was recently leaked by a Best Buy, Nintendo announced a $50 price drop for...Kate Mulgrew brings classic Greek tragedy to Dragon Age
Kate Mulgrew has a seductive voice. It's full of color and resonance and a certain smoky quality. It's both sexual...Jump through Twitter hoops for Electronic Arts to win a BMW
Lovely car up there. If you play along with Electronic Arts' Need for Speed: Shift contest, you can be eligible...Prices slashed in Demigod's artifact shop!
Most of the flags you capture in Demigod give your team an immediate and tangible advantage. You might get a...Valve swift to respond to fake Team Fortress 2 update
So it seems the engineer in Team Fortress 2 is getting a mobile turret in the form of a new...Florida cops just love the bowling in Wii Sports
Visit msnbc.com for Breaking News, World News, and News about the Economy In Florida, a bunch of cops serving up...Scribblenauts' strange fruit controversy explained
In Scribblenauts for the Nintendo DS, you type words that turn into objects. You then use the objects to solve...Australia to Valve: "Hey, those aren't zombies in Left 4 Dead!"
Australia's ratings board issued an RC classification for Left 4 Dead 2. RC means "refused classification", which is the equivalent...Empire: Total War goes Native American and a little mystical
Empire: Total War is getting a downloadable Native American campaign with five completely new factions slugging it out on a...Playstation 3 fails to live up to Xbox's standards of unreliability
Once again, Sony's Playstation 3 has fallen behind Microsoft's Xbox 360. A British consumer advocacy show called Watchdog recently...Old friends coming to dinner in next spring's Dawn of War II add-on
So it's the Chaos Marines. Yawn. Admittedly, the recently introduced Tyranids are a tough act to follow. But the first...The pefect Half-Life gift for little girls
If you were to draw a Venn diagram of Half-Life fans and people who collect and mod My Little Pony...Gamespotting: Tibetan Buddhism
In an interview with The Times of India, a prominent Tibetan Buddhist leader named Trinley Dorje copped to being a...Elite brought open-worlds to videogames before they were ready
Whoa, a sudden burst of activity on the website for a 25-year-old game? The official site for Elite is in...Your first and fake look at the Diablo III skill trees
Leave it to fans to pay close attention. The folks from DIII.net, a Diablo III fan site, have dutifully noted...The best and worst of Sony's Playstation 3 ads
Sony managed to get buzz with the pointless weirdness of their infamous "B3yond" ads (how I wish I could...See the Playstation 4 you'll never see
Our sister site DVICE has found a lovely vision of what the Playstation 4 could be. Sadly, it isn't real....September 21, 2009: wallet threat level yellow
The only sure-fire must-have this week -- that I know of -- is Halo 3: ODST, and that's only for...Firefight mode single-handedly saves Halo 3: ODST
It's no longer enough to just talk about multiplayer and singleplayer. Games like Call of Duty: World at War, Resident...Halo 3: ODST is like any other Halo, but sulkier
Only Bungie can get away with throwing a random string of letters after their game's name. Halo 3: ODST? Overdose...Asylum inmates want piggyback rides in new Batman challenges
Now you can download two new challenges for Batman: Arkham Asylum. They're free. However, being a videogamer with a typical...Killing Floor gets over fifty new floors for killing on
And while we're on the topic of free stuff, how about some new maps for Killing Floor, the co-op zombie...Bon Jovi fears to tread where Cobain rushed in
Last week, two former Nirvana band members raised a fuss about how silly it was to have Kurt Cobain as...Unreal Tournament 3 is free until Monday
Starting right now, you can download Unreal Tournament 3 from Steam and play it for the low low cost of...Valkyria Chronicles sequel not coming to the Playstation 3
From the announcement that the sequel to the Playstation 3 tactical RPG Valkyria Chronicles will be on the PSP:Valkyria Chronicles...Will Wine Tycoon be quaffable or transcendent?
Sometimes a feature list is far better than a game can ever hope to be. That's my guess as to...MC Frontalot has one of the best videos of all time
This isn't even remotely new, but with all the talk about Beyonce having one of the best videos of...Electronic Arts flattens Spore
In yet another example of all the wonderful things you can do with Spore that don't involve playing a videogame,...Calculating your contribution to Blizzard's coffers
If you're into MMOs, I don't recommend typing /played into the chat window. And if your really into MMOs, I...The song remains the same in Majesty 2 and it still rocks
For the most part, Majesty 2 is the same game as Majesty. Which is fine by me. The original game...Call of Duty 6 includes tanks, but not the kind you're thinking of
In my brief hands-on time with Modern Warfare 2 (a.k.a. Call of Duty 6), I was a little surprised to...Microsoft announces pre-scuffed Call of Duty 6 Limited Edition Xbox
Before turning us loose to actually play Modern Warfare 2 last night, we were subjected to an announcement for the...Pirate Batman and you'll drown in poison gas
If you try to play the pirated version of Batman Arkham Asylum for the PC, you will plunge into a...The dead shall walk a Galaxy far, far away
Star Wars Galaxies is adding a series of quests in which you fight against zombies. You might think that's ridiculous,...See the cute bloodless version of Dead Space's hero
A freelance artist who identifies himself as [Sid] has morphed one of Hasbro's Mighty Mugg figures into protagonist Arthur Asimov...Is this the face that slayed a thousand zombies?
The fellow in the video up there is a quadriplegic who posts as CB3 on Ask a Capper, a...Gamespotting: Entourage
In the latest episode of HBO's Entourage, Prototype has a bit part. It doesn't really have any lines, though. In...Tron Legacy producer accidentally announces Tron videogame
Given that there was a G-Force videogame about heavily armed hamsters, I didn't think Disney would drop the ball for...September 14, 2009: wallet threat level red
If you don't have a console system, I have some bad news for you. You wallet is in imminent peril...Fidgit on hold for the week
I hope you had a good holiday weekend. Unfortunately, the offices of Fidgit are closed for the remainder of the...Halo ODST commercial follows the life of an ODST dude
In yet another instance of a Halo commercial that has nothing to do with the actual game, Microsoft demonstrates...Fallout 3 marriage proposal mod is literally love in the ruins
The above video is of a marriage proposal made via a Fallout 3 mod. It's actually a rather standard...Reality show will trick people into applying for beta testing jobs
Are you a gamer? Are you the best? Do you have what it takes to take it to the...Is the new downloadable campaign a rebirth for FEAR 2?
If you're going to name your $10 download, might as well go with something catchy like "reborn". That's the name...Everything you wanted to know about Section 8, but were afraid to ask
Do you recognize this from when you play a shooter online?You have these people who like play different roles. Like...World of Warcraft offers painless $30 morality change operation
Let's say you've been evil for all 80 levels of your life and you decide you want to be good....Epic failure rate for the Xbox 360: one in four
Gamespot found a survey that pegs the failure rate of Xbox 360s at 23.7%, which I've rounded up to the...Some obligatory whining about the Guitar Hero 5 song list
The song list in a music game is always going to be a matter of taste. It hardly worth mentioning...What the holy heck is going on in Final Fantasy Dissidia?!??!
On one hand, it's kind of exciting to play a new videogame and find myself inundated with lots of new...Resident Evil 5 for the PC won't include versus mode
Resident Evil 5 is one of this year's most innovative multiplayer games considering the excellent cooperative gameplay, which includes the...Plastic travel guitar wouldn't be out of place in Hitman videogame
Our sister site DVICE discovered a collapsible guitar peripheral for all your Rock Band and Guitar Hero needs (excepting...Battlefield 2 stirs awake, asks "Remember me?", and offers a patch
Battlefield 2 was a wonderful thing to behold. When it was released four years ago, developer DICE had already popularized...Activision fumbles Guitar Hero backwards compatibility
Remember how cool it was when you bought Rock Band 2 and imported all the songs from the last...Street Fighter II clashes with Zen Pinball
The excellent Zen Pinball for the Playstation 3 just got a new table and it's quite the stinker. I suppose...Shadow Complex sales figures shrug off gay rights controversy
If you're making a game somehow affiliated with someone whose politics are controversial, don't sweat it. Microsoft proudly announced the...Starcraft: Heaven's Devils demo now available
Blogging is dirty business. My hope in writing that headline up there is that I'll get lots of clicks from...Upcoming driving games vie for the Jackass demographic
I expect pandering to the lower common denominators from Electronic Arts when it comes to their Need for Speed racing...Sims creator Will Wright interviews Harvard biologist
Just to balance out the Jackassery of racing game marketing shenanigans, here's as high brow as you can get. It's...Nintendo gets a little color in its hardware
You can only get the Nintendo DSi in black or blue, and the Nintendo Wii in white. However, that's all...Does Han click first in Han Solo Adventures?
A few game developers have attempted the transition from videogames to filmmaking. For instance, Wing Commander creator Chris Roberts famously...Parents, talk to your children about Secret of Monkey Island
The Tales of Monkey Island blog notes a report by an Argentinian news anchor concerned about the perils of...Last Stand of Dawn of War's Mekboy, Farseer, and Apothecary
1Up got some hands-on time with the new Last Stand multiplayer co-op mode coming to Dawn of War II this...August 31, 2009: Wallet threat level red
After a one-week delay, Section 8 is finally available. This is one of the finest shooters I've played in a...Section 8: why your gun doesn't work
An unfortunately common complaint about Section 8 will be that the guns "aren't powerful enough". Which is true if you're...Force Unleashed mission pack will delight Boba Fett fetishists
The Tattoine Mission Pack is available now for Force Unleashed. Here's the official word.Artoo-detoo and See-Threepio have crash-landed on Tatooine...Muramasa magazine cover will delight tentacle fetishists
One of the little-hyped games coming out this fall is Muramasa: the Demon Blade, a Wii action game from Japanese...Dark Void takes to the skies like a drunken bumblebee
In the above video, Capcom gets someone's little brother to demo an annoying escort mission in Dark Void, in...Activision scores Smells Like Teen Spirit
The next few weeks will see an epic battle between music games. Guitar Hero's opening fusillade is a whole new...Is C.O.R.E. as good as having Doom on the DS?
Our sister site, Sci Fi Wire, is unimpressed with the Nintendo DS shooter, CORE.If you're nostalgic for Doom, or itching...10 reasons you must play Batman: Arkham Asylum
Now that Batman: Arkham Asylum has been released, it has thrown into disarray those perennial lists of the best superhero...Section 8: your guide to bomb and outpost missions
Most of the missions in Section 8 are relatively easy to trigger. Since each of the missions I've talked about...Crying on the inside zombies coming to Left 4 Dead 2
Valve has already revealed two of the five campaigns in Left 4 Dead 2. We know one campaign is set...Eve Online banking system needs a bailout or stimulus package
From yet another article that simultaneously makes me wish I played Eve Online and reminds me why I don't play...Playing keep-away in Red Faction: Guerrilla's next add-on
Volition says the next downloadable content for Red Faction: Guerrilla will be available on September 17th. Contrary to what I...Do not buy an Xbox 360 today! Price drop coming tomorrow.
As expected, Microsoft announced a price cut for an Xbox 360, from $399 to $299 for the "elite" version, effective...What Rock Band looked like in 1982
Among the horrors of 1982 were the war in the Falklands, cyanide-laced Tylenol, and the above Journey videogame. (Thanks...Section 8: your guide to VIP and commando missons
One of the surprising things about Section 8 is the bot AI. It's perfectly capable of managing the game's "systems"....Eight videogame ads you'll wish you hadn't seen
As videogaming grows up, so too does videogame advertising. It's pretty gratifying to flip through a print magazine and see...The bloody view from inside Killing Floor's new foundry
Here at Fidgit, we're big fans of Killing Floor, aka Steam's other co-op zombie killing game. So we were delighted...US and Finland lead the world in East India Company cosplay
Since its release, East India Company has gotten three patches. However, the game I wrote about in my series of...The dead shall walk the earth in new Castle Crashers add-on
The developers at Behemoth sure know how to make you want to play through Castle Crashers again. If the King...An apology to Future Publishing and their kid-safe magazines
Man, when I (pictured) screw up, I really screw up. An understandably angry employee of Future Publishing contacted me to...Section 8: your guide to intelligence missions
One of my favorite moments in Section 8 so far was during an intel mission. My team had the briefcase....The top ten superhero games before today
This list is no longer valid. Think of it as a snapshot from the past. It's a page out of...Legal flub gives British kids three months to buy violent videogames
Here in the United States, we mainly just grandstand when it comes to legal limits on violent entertainment and kids....Iran's hi-tech industry isn't just working on nuclear weapons
The BBC takes a look at one of the more, um, interesting exhibitors at last week's gaming convention in Cologne,...Say "How now, blue cow!" to Demigod's newest demigod
You already got a glimpse of the Shadow Assassin, one of two new demigods to be included as a free...Section 8: your guide to convoy missions
In many ways, Section 8 is like any other team-based shooter. Two groups of players (and/or bots, since Section 8...Eve Online loses 2% of its players...on purpose
They keep trying to sneak back, but in the end it's all about the money and we simply follow that...The controversy about Shadow Complex and gay rights
I had already been playing Shadow Complex before I realized that it had anything to do with Orson Scott Card...Interactive online map sheds light on Shadow Complex
Even if you have no moral problem with playing Shadow Complex, you might have a moral problem with cheating your...Home-made Shadow of the Colossus colossus isn't very colossal
Matthew Ellison writes:I recently bought myself one of the Munny vinyl toys to customise, and decided to do it in...The real reason to get excited about Starcraft II
Since Starcraft II is Blizzard's next impending release (Wings of Liberty, the first of the three-part release, will ship...August 24, 2009: Wallet threat level bright red
Two of the best games I've played all year come out this week. Batman: Arkham Asylum has an uncanny appreciation...New Spock wants to save the old videogame arcades
Our sister site Sci Fi Wire has the details on Zachary "New Spock" Quinto lending his celebrity to an important...Will 28 Weeks Later director take on Bioshock movie?
I can't imagine better news for fans of Bioshock than this story on Variety:"28 Weeks Later" helmer Juan Carlos Fresnadillo...Big news at Blizzcon: a monk, a beta, and a World of Warcraft expansion
Our sister site Sci Fi Wire has posted the scoop on the upcoming World of Warcraft expansion, officially announced at...Six Nintendo DS games that treat you like an adult
The Nintendo DS is first and foremost a family system. And family means "for kids". I don't say that to...Cry havoc and let slip the chickens of war in Fat Princess
You might have thought you'd plumbed the depths of strategic nuance in Fat Princess, the Playstation 3 game about rescuing...Don't let children see cube-headed video from the new single "Hitlers Must Die"
I'm a sucker for anything set to the Moonlight Sonata, but it helps when there's also a lot of...World of Warcraft magazine takes Blizzard's MMO offline
Just when you thought the print media was dead, a new magazine is being launched. And this is no low-end...Tumblr gallery shows off the brilliant colors of 80s arcade art
Our sister site DVICE has posted a great sample of 80s videogame art, taken from the Art of the Arcade...Street Fighter cellphone strap makes combo sounds
From our sister site, DVICE: Are you a Street Fighter addict? If so, this keychain is for you. It...Play Darwinia+ to unlock coolest Xbox avatar shirt ever
In the course of announcing that Darwinia+ will be playable at the Penny Arcade Expo next month, Brit indie developer...Sony will make it easier to leave Playstation Home
Meanwhile, while Xbox Live's avatars get cool T-shirts that encourage us to play indie games, what is Sony doing to...Pay a little extra to get Interplay's classic games from Steam
I'm not your garden variety Steam basher. I love Valve's convenient and slickly integrated online games service as much as...Forget your Xbox Live Gamerscore. What's your True Achievement score?
If you've ever had any misgivings about being the achievement whore that you really are -- and I confess I...Lucasarts invents actual jetpack for European videogaming convention
Europe kicked off their answer to E3 with a videogaming convention called Gamescom, held this week in Cologne, Germany....Lost Planet 2 demo examines all aspects of a monster's digestive process
There's a Lost Planet 2 demo available on Xbox Live. The demo lets you sample a boss battle recalling that...Four games that make global epidemics fun. Really!
A game called The Great Flu got a lot of press this week, thanks to an Associated Press article. It...Pimp your ride from the inside in Dirt 2
It's about to be a great time to be a racing fan. When Dirt 2 comes out on September 8,...DVICE's 10 (or so) most bad-ass battlesuits
You'll meet that guy up there in Section 8, an upcoming multiplayer shooter. He's one of the deployable items you...Fable III will be almost industrial and morally ambigous
Lionhead announced Fable III after a drawn-out series of teasers featuring historical figures saying things about government and whatnot (pictured)....Creative Assembly steams ahead to Napoleon: Total War
Speaking of Napoleonic fairy tales, here's one: hot on the heels of Creative Assembly's polished and admirable Empire: Total War...Playstation 3 gets leaner and less shiny
Starting September 1st, you'll be able to get a revised Playstation 3 for $299 (i.e. the same price as the...2D is the new 3D in the slick and gratifying Shadow Complex
Sometime over the last decade, when I wasn't really looking closely, all videogames went 3D. All of them. RPGs went...Take a peek at Starcraft II's single player campaign
I have a hard time following the Starcraft II press coverage, mostly because Blizzard does a great job wowing...Developer explains how Rio meets Dubai meets Fable II in Brink
Here's a question I've always asked myself.Why make a game set on a city, floating all by itself hundreds of...Is it creepy that Sony wants to watch you laugh?
Our sister site DVICE has uncovered Sony's plot to find out whether you're enjoying yourself.Sony Computer Entertainment America (SCEA) applied...Console add-on announced for space-based MMO Eve Online
Eve Online developer CCP opened a development studio in Shanghai three years ago. Today, they announced what the studio has...Magazine survey finds over half of all Xbox 360s fail
According to a Game Informer survey of "close to 5,000 readers", the failure rate for the Xbox 360 is 54.2%....Can an Alice in Wonderland game be as good as this screenshot?
Disney Interactive will publish an Alice in Wonderland game to coincide with the release of Tim Burton's movie in...Sega lets you vote on something that actually matters
Getting fans to vote for something inconsequential is one of the oldest tricks in the PR book. Hey, do you...August 17, 2009: wallet threat level yellow-green
Shadow Complex on Xbox Live Arcade is this week's sure-fire threat to your wallet, but only to the tune of...A little tape and extra hardware make a deadly looking Wiimote
A tip of the hat to Jason in Washington D.C. for figuring out how to avoid shelling out for a...Sega will put Chromehounds to sleep in January
The superlative mech game, Chromehounds, illustrates the pitfalls of multiplayer-only games that rely on servers provided by the publisher: the...Ubisoft's new game for people against childhood vaccinations
With the new Wii fitness game, Your Shape, Ubisoft seems to be scooping Microsoft's magical Project Natal. According to the...Before there was Red Faction: Guerrilla, there was the add-on
In this week's wallet threat level, I missed the ten dollar add-on for Red Faction: Guerrilla, which is available for...New-ish Rage trailer debuts at Quake Con
It's been exactly a year since Id Software announced Rage at QuakeCon. And based on the above trailer, they...Dementium II proves that box art can still freak you out
Gah! And, yes, that's the box for a Nintendo DS game. The original Dementium was a bona fide M-rated survival...Friends are your worst enemies in Trials HD and Shadow Complex
It's one thing to have leaderboards with a friends filter. Plenty of games do this. Naturally, you want to see...Real Heroes: Firefighter has a lot of heart for a rookie
One game coming out this week that slipped under my radar is Real Heroes: Firefighter for the Wii. I had...The multiplayer beta for Section 8 wants you
The multiplayer beta for Section 8, a slick new TRIBES-a-like sci-fi shooter, has been thrown open to anyone who cares...Vote for painfully obvious achievements in Assassin's Creed II
Ooh, look, Ubisoft is having a contest in which we can vote for one of four achievements to be included...Latest Team Fortress 2 update has no class
Up to now, every significant update to Team Fortress 2 has also been a love letter to one of the...Uncharted's Nathan Drake crashes Shadow Complex
First order of business: Holy cats, Shadow Complex is really good. I had just thought it was going to be...Assault rifles come to the Civil War in Darkest of Days demo
Darkest of Days is sort of like the History Channel version of Call of Duty. But with lasers. The demo...Xbox Live bilks you for pointless avatar doo-dads
I know you're tempted, but whatever you do, please don't fall for Microsoft's blatant attempt to bilk money from you...Knit your own Noby Noby Boy cat toy (knitting required)
Having seen what Noby Noby Boy can do, I'm not sure I'd trust him around my cat. Fortunately, the Noby...Playing videogames online can get you a job...in North Dakota
Daily financial show Marketplace ran a segment about the flourishing job market in North Dakota. Sometime construction worker Milton Moore...Happy birthday, System Shock 2! We still want you!
To further thumb my nose at the Netflix VP of marketing who (quite rightly) said that "a videogame from 10...Find out the two new races coming to World of Warcraft
Wow.com (not an official site) is pretty sure they've got the lowdown on the two new races coming to World...Who needs a Wii when you can play Half-Life with real guns?
Waterloo Labs is a group of breathlessly enthusiastic engineering nerds in Austin. For their latest project, they rigged up...Netflix officially uninterested in videogames
Joystiq posted an interview with a marketing VP at Netflix who wasn't interested in sharing any hard data about the...iPhone finally gets Civilized
It's not a gaming system unless there's some way to play Civilization on it. Sid Meier's classic turn-based strategy game...Angry Videogame Nerd calms down and shows his wares
You may be acquainted with the Angry Videogame Nerd. He's a minor internet celebrity, known for the videos in...A first look at Demigod's newest demigod
Publisher Stardock revealed the demon assassin, the first of two new demigods to be added to Demigod. Based on the...British videogaming magazines include pornographic ads
Consider that Britain is the land of the "page three girl". This is a feature of the trash tabloid The...Lose weight faster with Fat Princess patch!
A piece of cake in Fat Princess has 150 calories. Every 300 calories you feed the princess will advance her...Brutal Legend song list announced
Electronic Arts' has posted all the songs that will be included in Brutal Legend. It's a massive soundtrack with something...August 10, 2009: wallet threat level green
This week, you'll be able to get Phantom Brave for the Wii. It's a port of a very good strategy...Spielberg allegedly interested in Halo movie
Entertainment site IESB (I have no idea what that stands for but it makes my brain think of Empire Strikes...10 things I love about Wipeout HD and the Fury add-on
Now that the State Farm ads are out of the way, it's time to get back to the serious business...Red Faction: Guerrilla makes it easier to break more stuff
Finally the developers at Volition have fixed the bugs that made it hard to figure out what missions you had...Natural Selection 2 makes the beast with three tails
Yeah, so he looks like an alien zombie dog or something. No big deal, right? But check out the video...Doublebear announces the first ZRPG (zombie role-playing game)
Here's an interesting way to announce a game: at the website for another game. The founders of a new studio...Syd Mead explains the evolution of the TRON light cycle
The proof-of-concept footage for TRON Legacy has been online for a while. But it wasn't until Comic Con that the...Play Custer's last deathmatch in new Call of Juarez maps
Call of Juarez gets four new maps today for the so-so price of ten bucks. Based on screenshots, it looks...Zombie assault of Call of Duty: World at War continues
Speaking of map packs, there are three new maps available for Call of Duty 5 today. But those are just...Arma II patched but still botched
Arma II, a hyper-realistic military sim/shooter, had a pretty difficult release (you can read my full review here). One of...Was Starcraft II delayed because of Prototype?
In case you had some crazy idea that you were going to play Starcraft II this year, I can sympathize....Gamespotting: Eden Log
This isn't a traditional gamespotting. Eden Log, an occasionally incoherent French sci-fi film from a first-time director, doesn't explicitly reference...Activision really wants you to buy Blur at Gamestop
The next racing game from Project Gotham Racing creators Bizarre Creations is called Blur. It will allegedly be published by...Sony backs down and removes ads from Wipeout HD
Victory! I played through nearly a dozen Wipeout HD tracks last night without being pitched home insurance! Sony has performed...In the future, you will play Super Monkey Ball with your feet
The moment I stepped on a Wii Balance Board, I knew this was going to happen sooner or later.The loveable...Hearts of Iron demo will be the busiest four months you've ever played
If you can't wait for the two days until Hearts of Iron III is released, or if you're not sure...Has Left 4 Dead lost its touch?
Valve has announced they will release a new campaign for Left 4 Dead in September. But a lot of us...Monopoly leads to shocking incident of violence in Detroit
If you're ever in Detroit and this man asks you to play Monopoly, proceed with extreme caution. Kenneth Anthony Repke...When is ingame advertising appropriate?
This was going to be the space where I talked about the sweet sleek awesomeness of the Fury add-on for...Batman trailer reveals the inmates running the asylum
Are you psyched yet? You should be. There's a whole lot more than what you're seeing in that trailer....Call of Juarez leaves you out in the open
I love a good cover system. Every since Vietcong, there's nothing quite so gratifying as trading fire with someone while...Glum Buster is the cure for platforming blues
I had meant to play Trine, the physics-based platforming game recently released for the PC and Xbox 360 (the Playstation...Demolition crew needs to play more Red Faction, less Katamari
Watching this footage of a fumbled demotion attempt in Turkey, my first thought was "That's sure as heck not...Sims 3 packs its bags for globetrotting expansion pack
Electronic Arts announced the first expansion for The Sims 3. World Adventures will ship on November 16th.Players can take their...Clank gets a bigger role in next Ratchet & Clank game
Insomniac's creative director Brian Allgeier has a whole mess of video from the upcoming Ratchet & Clank game here. In...Developers struggling to get Fat Princess into shape
The developers at Titan Studios who made Fat Princess know their game has problems. For instance, it can be hard...Xbox Live avatars in Guitar Hero 5 are old news
Blogs this weekend were all atwitter about Activision's announcement that the Xbox 360 version of Guitar Hero 5 will...August 3rd, 2009: wallet threat level green
Something out-of-the-world comes to Fallout 3 this week. The Mothership Zeta downloadable content (pictured, in a cautionary tale that even...Playing Wipeout HD online? State Farm is there.
I had intended to post a glowing review of the excellent Fury add-on for Wipeout HD that I bought for...Haven't played Demigod? Try it for free.
More than three months after its release, there's finally a demo available of Demigod, the slick real time strategy game...Publisher Atlus "devastates" people who imported Demon's Souls
Atlus announced a pre-order incentive for the upcoming Playstation 3 action RPG Demon's Souls under the following headline: "PATIENCE IS...Burn Zombie Burn will space out with two new maps
It's been announced for a while that Burn Zombie Burn is getting downloadable content called In Space, but now...Darkest of Days is historically inaccurate and unfair
If you examine the screenshot above, you'll note a) that's not the kind of gun a cavalryman would have encountered...The Sims 3 declares woo-hoo "a romantic interaction"
The next time you start up The Sims 3, that annoying little EA Downloader in your task bar will automatically...Champions Online pre-order deals give you a head start on micro-transactions
The first in the latest round of superhero online RPGs is a month away. Champions Online, from the creators of...Dawn of War 2 decides There Is Only War
Another one of Relic Entertainment's ambitious post-release balancing acts goes live today. The "There Is Only War" update for Dawn...Now is the time to get your name on the Halo Wars leaderboards
I shouldn't be laughing at this. And, really, I'm not. I feel awful -- just awful -- for all the...East India Company: a critical miss
Now that Spain has declared war, I have to fight a lot. Spain has nearly twice as many ships as...Pre-order Scribblenauts and be the cock-of-the-walk
If you pre-order Scribblenauts for the DS, which you know you're going to buy when it comes out on September...Russian flight sim aims for wider audience on Xbox Live
If you want to see how well a hardcore flight simulator can make the transition to a console game, check...Fat Princess sneaks out when you're not looking
Sony surprised everyone earlier this week by casually sidling up to us as if nothing was going on. "So, are...GayGamer.net punks Electronic Arts' sexist Comic-Con contest
Dante's Inferno is clearly aimed at English majors and angsty teenage boys eager for anything that smacks of Devil May...Left 4 Dead survivors settle down to nidify in The Sims 3
If there's one thing missing from The Sims 3, it's zombies. Ben 'The_B' Borthwick has started down the road to...East India Company: lembas bread and Slim Jims
It takes a long time to sail from Europe to India. Like, a year. You want to stock up before...Tear up the undead with Clutch's zombie-powered cars
Since the name Carmageddon is already taken, this game from the Russian developers of Hard Truck Apocalypse is called Clutch....ECA wants you to tell Obama we can play videogames as much as we want
The Entertainment Consumer Association is like the National Rifle Association, but with videogames instead of rifles. They will champion videogaming...East India Company: how to make a million ducats
I'm going to make a prediction: a lot of people who play East India Company are going to complain about...Modern Warfare 2 gives new meaning to "death from above"
Infinity Ward unveils their new system of multiplayer unlockables in the above Modern Warfare 2 trailer. You also get...Eagle Eyed director takes over Dead Space movie
Our sister site Dvice noted that Variety has announced DJ Caruso will direct a movie based on Dead Space, Electronic...Producer reveals the plot of Asteroids movie
IGN cornered producer Lornezo di Bonaventura while he was promoting GI Joe in London. They managed to get him to...Canadian youth assailed with sadistic videogames
The first episode of Project D has been posted. Project D is the effort of Nerd Balloon blogger Kerry,...Force Unleashed coming to deserted wastes of Tattooine, Hoth, and PCs
In case playing through Force Unleashed as C-3PO wasn't enough downloadable content for you, you'll be able to go to...July 27, 2009: wallet threat level yellow
Popcap's cute spelling battles continue in volume 2 of Bookworm Adventures, which picks up at chapter 4 where the original...East India Company: a piece of India for your very own
One of the victory conditions in East India Company is to control all the ports in India for ten years....The hottest games yet to come in 2009
With the year half over and the new release shelves becalmed, you're probably getting restless. But if you've been a...Can one guy play all four parts in Rock Band?
You know you've wondered if you can do it. Alex Walton proves you can. It may not be very...Horror director to helm Castlevania movie
Sam Raimi and World of Warcraft are a match made in heaven Hollywood. They're both established money makers who will...East India Company: the Bombay tea party
East India Company is a real time strategy game about exploiting the treasures of the Orient back in the 17th...Holy Invasion plumbs the depths of dungeon thermodynamics
I'm not quite sure what to make of their weird, unique, and obtuse game with a title that makes no...Giant laps are what you take racing on the moon
When it comes to sci-fi racing games, Lunar Racing Championship may not be as sexy as Wipeout's supersleek, future-iconographic, mag-lev...Wipeout HD officially gets more Furious and more psychedelic
Speaking of supersleek, future-iconographic, mag-lev hover-racing, the Fury add-on for Wipeout HD is now available from the Playstation Store for...God of War knife doesn't slice or dice, but it looks menacing
Got a couple feet to spare on your tchotchke shelf? The above God of War-themed doo-dad from United Cutlery, known...Activision wanted Brutal Legend to be a Guitar Hero sequel
Nested in an article about Brutal Legend developer Double Fine counter-suing Activision in the ongoing legal battle is this claim:Double...Five new games that give you the royal treatment
In the words of Shakespeare, "it's good to be the king" (Richard II, Act VI, Scene 4). This bit of...So where are you going to pre-order Uncharted 2?
Kotaku details the various pre-order bonuses you get with Uncharted 2 based on where you pre-order the game, which will...Sam Raimi to direct World of Warcraft movie
It had to happen sooner of later. Variety reports that the World of Warcraft movie is finally underway with the...Has Brazil shanghaied Little Big Planet's Sackboy?
The above video is the intro to a children's show in Brazil. Believe it or not, it is not...Why social games suck, and whether they'll get better
Any self-respecting videogamer knows most social networking games are flat-out terrible as games. They're dull, repetitive, and derivative. Writer Troy...Brutal Legend multiplayer marshals the armies of rock
Developer Double Fine has finally tipped their hand about the multiplayer in Brutal Legend. But only a little. From a...Historic Battles map pack for Halo Wars looks awfully familiar
Four more maps are available today for Halo Wars, presented as downloadable content called "Historic Battles", which sounds much more...Early birds get the pirates in East India Company
In East India Company, you control a merchant company shuttling goods to and from exotic lands. Among your challenges will...MegaMan bites off more than he can chew in Marvel vs. Capcom 2
Capcom has never been shy about dropping their characters into unlikely battles. There's a long history of Capcom vs. [insert...Chatty Star Wars Old Republic claims thousands of actors
In this video trailer for Star Wars: The Old Republic, various folks at BioWare explain the extensive voiceover work in...Is Modern Warfare 2 inviting players to mischief?
Columnist Rob Watson at the Philadelphia Inquirer is a bit concerned about the fancy new collectors edition of Modern...New Japanese Wii has gone to the dark side
Look what Japan gets on August 1st. I'd feel a lot less insecure about playing Excite Truck, Super Mario Galaxy,...If dogs can play poker, what can they do with Pokemon?
I wasn't going to link this, because it's really not safe for work, home, or any aspect of a normal...July 20, 2009: wallet threat level green
Walking into brick & mortar retailers this week should be perfectly safe for the well being of your wallet. Do...Rock Band Network wants to change the way you buy Rock Band songs
It's nothing unusual for a developer to release a toolset for users to make new levels or an SDK (software...Fidgit continues below
