Watch The Slender: The Arrival Beta In Action… If You Dare

Slender: The Eight Pages was one of the more beguiling successes of last year—a weird, super low-rent thriller that combined the popular Slenderman mythos with simple jump-scare design. Its stripped-down look and basic design were part of the appeal. Its sequel, the upcoming Slender: The Arrival, looks to have upped the ante in just about…

This Crysis 3 Commercial Is Great Because It Doesn’t Take Itself Too Seriously

No dubstep, no angry men blowing up other angry men. Just a dude enjoying himself in the jungle, while shooting a crossbow bow and turning invisible and doing other Crysisy things. The shooter Crysis 3 will be out on February 19 for Xbox 360, PS3, and PC. For more, check out Tina’s impressions

While you wait for Among The Sleep, you should try The Plan, an experimental title by the same devs. You play as a fly.

Filling In the Blanks on Neverwinter‘s Character Sheet

It’s been years since I’ve walked the streets of Neverwinter, rapier swinging with every step, ready for whatever dangers lurked in the alleys of one of Dungeons and Dragons‘ most notable locales. It’s also been awhile since I filled out a good old paper character sheet. Why not combine the two? Due out early this…

DS Homebrewing Still Going Strong with Portal Adaptation

The DS still is home to a robust homebrew scene, as we see here in this Portal port that modder Smealum has been working on for about the past six months. “Still nowhere near playable,” he writes under the latest video, but it’s brought along Portal staples like turrets, cubes, switches and energy balls. “This…

With Four Days To Go, Chris Taylor Cancels Wildman Kickstarter

Designer Chris Taylor has canceled his troubled Kickstarter, just four days before funding was scheduled to end. Wildman, an action-role-playing game that promised to be “evolutionary,” had earned roughly $504,000, more than half a million short of its $1.1 million goal. The Kickstarter was due to end on Friday. This project has been troubled for…

15 Flavors of Japanese Kit Kats: The Snacktaku Review

This weekend I went on a magical flavor journey across the Pacific, to a land where what Americans deem worthy of snackhood is laughably tame. This weekend I tasted 15 different varieties of Japanese Kit Kats, and I am forever changed by the experience. Snacktaku fans will remember the Japanese Kit Kats as one of…

A Ten-Year-Old Tried Using A 3DS To Find A Girlfriend

There is something about Nintendo and love birds—first, someone tried using the Wii U as real estate for a personal ad. Now, according to Tiny Cartridge, a ten-year-old tried using a 3DS to find himself a girlfriend. How did he try to do it? Using an app, of course. Specifically, the young Masterclaw360 used the…

Four Months After Releasing Virtue’s Last Reward, The Developers Still Can’t Fix A Save-Erasing Bug

The people behind Virtue’s Last Reward can’t seem to figure out how to patch a save-erasing bug that affects the 3DS version of the Japanese visual novel. Publisher Aksys has posted a “workaround” for the bug, which will erase your entire game if you save while solving puzzles in the PEC room (or Crew Quarters).…

Real Racing 3 is Even More Attractive Now That It’s Going Free-to-Play

The latest entry in Firemonkeys’ Real Racing isn’t just going to be the nicest looking entry in the series when it drops on February 28—it’ll also be the first one that’s completely free to play. In an interview with Bloomberg, EA’s senior vice president for mobile and social game development Nick Earl said the company…

Ungrateful Toy Fair-goers Already Hawking Exclusive Skylanders on eBay

Well, this doesn’t look tacky or anything. Skylanders has been giving out exclusive Toy Fair figurines to attendees of the show itself and a couple of preview events last week. Said attendees are not civilians, as Toy Fair is a closed, industry event. But, knowing the demand for these suckers, a bunch have been listed…

Interested in hunting hidden objects? G5 Games’ Letters from Nowhere is free on iOS and Android until February 17.

Things Get Weird When You Look At Pokémon As An Allegory For Slavery

Unlike the Pokémon games before it, Pokémon Black/White almost explored something interesting: why we catch Pokémon, and whether or not keeping/battling with them is “okay.” But before the games said anything meaningful or deep, they took the easy route and made Team Plasma—the group intent on “liberating” Pokémon and therefore the reason you’re thinking about…

The Next Xbox Has Mandatory Kinect, Game-Swapping and New Controllers, According To Leaked Info

The next-generation Xbox—the one that will follow the still-popular Xbox 360—will run multiple games at once, require game installations, and will only work when a much-improved version of the popular but divisive Kinect sensor array is plugged in, according to a source who says he has access to development hardware. Those are a just a…

MLB 2K‘s Perfect Game Challenge is Back Under New—and, One Hopes, Exploit-Proof—Rules

The Perfect Game Challenge offered by the Major League Baseball 2K series, tainted by allegations of cheating and rules loopholes last year, returns under a new format this time, its fourth in as many years. Though the million-dollar prize pool is still the same size, it will now divide the loot among 30 overall winners,…

FarmVille 2 ‘By Any Other Name’ Quests: Everything You Need to Know

As the Florist Table event continues to expand in FarmVille 2, we’ve seen the launch of a new series of eight quests called “By Any Other Name.” These eight quests will be available for the next two weeks, and we’re here with a guide to help get you started on completing them. Late Bloomer •…

These Toys Give Us The Best Look At Man Of Steel‘s Villain Yet

With Zack Snyder’s Man of Steel movie arriving on June 14th, more details of his take on Superman’s world are hitting the internet. Yesterday, among the trading cards, maquettes, and plushes at Toy Fair, we spotted your boy Kal-El and three other characters from the film in these gorgeous new toys from DC Collectibles. They…

Electronic Arts Turned Down the Man Who Shot Osama bin Laden, Says Report

Esquire’s fascinating profile of the SEAL Team Six member who killed Osama bin Laden, and his struggles to adapt to civilian life, churned up this intriguing detail: the shooter wanted to consult on Medal of Honor: Warfighter, but Electronic Arts turned him down. Now, EA didn’t know the shooter (who is not named in the…

In Hungry Oni, Your Meals Are Color-Coded

As far as sharp looking iOS games go, Hungry Oni must be one of the most dazzling I’ve seen all year. And yes, I know it’s only February. (It is only February.) The game is the work of Andrzej Zamoyski, a former Lionhead Studios developer who moved to Japan to make video games. This is…

This iPad App Puts Discworld’s Finest City at Your Fingertips. I’d Wear Gloves.

“There’s a saying that all roads lead to Ankh-Morpork. And it’s wrong. All roads lead away from Ankh-Morpork, but sometimes people just walk along the wrong way.” That’s pretty much all you need to know about the central city of Terry Pratchett’s beloved Discworld books, but if you’re still ill-advisedly curious, there’s now an interactive…