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December 29, 2011

One of the hardest NES games ever translated to English

If you’re a stone-cold psychopath whose masochistic gaming tendencies push you away from … well, normal-people games and into the cold embrace…

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Games of 2011: Dark Souls

A hazy myth, an elegant contraption, an eccentric vision, an unforgiving mistress: Dark Souls has many sides. All bear the fingerprints of…

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Games of 2011: Skyrim

Did you know that there’s a new Mission: Impossible film out this Christmas? I had no idea until the other day. I…

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Legend of Zelda 25th Anniversary shirt is a real treasure, for a limited time

You enter the quiet, overgrown cavern by pushing open the heavy stone door with all your might. Inside, sunlight streams through the…

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Rock Band Weekly: Rush ‘2112’

Rock Band will add Rush’s legendary “2112” to the Wii and Xbox 360 music store next week, with the PS3 receiving the…

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Top Android Game Apps: GTA III Overtakes Longtime Chart Leader Cut The Rope

[In this weekly column, Gamasutra rounds up the most popular paid and free gaming applications on the Android Market as of today,…

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Borderlands 2 Gunzerker profiled, Siren gameplay will be ‘very, very different’

We saw the new Gunzerker class in the Borderlands 2 teaser trailer released way back in August, but Gearbox has shared a…

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Scratch one Gears of War 3 demo

Try before you buy. It’s a concept we’re entirely behind, and in modern gaming, it’s not out of the ordinary for a…

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December 28, 2011

Review: PlayStation Vita (Japan launch model)

Sony released the PlayStation Vita in Japan two months ahead of its worldwide debut. The PSP successor packs an enormous 5-inch, 960×544…

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Simogo’s ‘Beat Sneak Bandit’ Puts Music To Puzzlin’ Action

Simogo’s Bumpy Road [$2.99] is radical because it totally embraces the touch screen. On top of being a simple and gorgeous game,…

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One more Diablo III console development job opening for 2011

At this point, the “Diablo III is probably coming to consoles” thing is like a joke without a punchline. We just keep…

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PlayStation Vita Sales Drop Below 3DS In Japan

Bad news for the PlayStation Vita in Japan. According to Media Create (Via Joystiq), Sony’s innovative handheld unit sold 72,479 units on its…

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‘Serious Financial Problems’ Plague Coco Girl Social Dev MetroGames

The emerging social and mobile gaming sectors have a good amount of success stories, but they aren’t immune to the kinds of…

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Twisted Metal includes Twisted Metal: Black download code

Over on the PlayStation Blog, David Jaffe reveals that early adopters of Sony’s upcoming Twisted Metal reboot will get a bonus game…

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Editorial: ‘I’m tired of saving the world’

Heavy Rain asks us “How far would you go to save someone you love?” Few games bother with this sort of question…

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Best Facebook and Google Plus Games That Won’t Get You Teased By Your Co-Workers

Social gaming keeps growing in popularity, especially on the Facebook and Google Plus platforms. Everywhere you turn, there’s an opportunity to point-and-click…

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The Skyrim Murders: One Woman’s Blood-Soaked Death Tour Of Tamriel: Part 4 — Massacre At Solitude

In Skyrim it isn’t hard to wet your blade. But I’m out to do more than spill a little blood. I’m Tura…

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Battle Duty: Modern Field 3 takes copyright infringement to new heights

Reading a headline like that, one might assume that such a ridiculous thing doesn’t exist and is simply a joke. While we…

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