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February 11, 2012

Xbox Live Indie Gems: Nyan Cat Adventure

Crowded as it is with farting massage simulators, it can be hard to find worthwhile titles on Xbox Live Indie Games. That’s…

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Rock Band Weekly: Poison, Mr. Big, Heart, Rick Astley

Tuesday is Valentine’s Day, and in addition to being a day full of expectations and guilt, it’s now a day where you…

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Indie Royale Valentine’s Bundle available now, with Lume, Hoard, Zeno Clash and more

The Indie Royale website is back at it with a brand new bundle of games for sale, this time scheduled for Valentine’s…

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Why Sony passed on publishing Demon’s Souls in America

Nobody expected Demon’s Souls to be the hit it was, least of all Sony, the game’s publisher in Japan. When Atlus decided…

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Fallout 3 concept artist Adam Adamowicz passes away

Adam Adamowicz died of cancer yesterday, and while his career may have focused on building digital worlds, his impact can be felt…

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Darius Bursts onto the App Store

Square Enix has released another Taito shmup on the App Store, and as with pretty much all Square releases, we can’t help…

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February 10, 2012

Contrasting the IAAs and VGAs: Is There a Difference?

Skyrim was the big winner at the 15th Annual Interactive Achievement Awards….

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Portal 2 toys are delightful, scientifically unsound and morally ambiguous

ThinkGeek has toys for the Portal 2 fan (that's plenty of you) who just can't get enough of wry gaming-related in-jokes (that's…

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Super Meat Boy’s super boys explain what it means to go mobile

Yesterday Edmund McMillen and Tommy Refenes of Team Meat dropped a gigantic, raw bomb on Twitter (gross), announcing their intent to strip…

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Dark Side ‘Cause It Looks Cool: The Failings of Moral Choice in Games

Filed under: PC, Sony PlayStation 3, Microsoft Xbox 360, First Person Shooters, Online, RPGs, MMOThis is a weekly column focusing on “Western”…

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Frictional teases a new Amnesia project, possibly set in China

Frictional Games, known for the Penumbra series and 2010’s fantastically creepy Amnesia: The Dark Descent, is teasing something new. A new website,…

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Closure wins 2012 Indie Game Challenge at DICE

Closure won the third annual Indie Game Challenge at this year’s DICE show in Las Vegas. The clever puzzle platformer, which works…

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Why Are Game Budgets So Secretive?

Ted Price, Tomonobu Itagaki, Robert Bowling, and many others share their thoughts….

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G4 Valentine’s Day Gift Guide for Your Favorite Nerd

Welcome to your G4 Valentine’s Day gift guide for all the nerdy girls or boys in your life. As a public service…

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So what’s up with that disembodied head in Lollipop Chainsaw, anyway?

When looking at screens of Lollipop Chainsaw, we’re certain your eyes drift naturally to one of Juliet’s most eye-catching features … the…

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GameStop sees majority of digital sales from cash; won’t pursue used PC game sales

GameStop is building its digital distribution business, having seen a 158 percent growth year-over-year in the third quarter, with strong returns thanks…

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What drives the developers of Unity?

Steffen Toksvig, Unity’s VP of engineering, used to be the CTO at Hitman developer IO Interactive — but now about half of…

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South Korean rating outs Magic: The Gathering: Duels of the Planeswalkers 2013

Game Rating Board, South Korea’s premiere games rating board, has listed another entry in the Magic: The Gathering series of games, presumably…

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