Star Wars Pinball Proposes a Unique Trilogy With Its First Three Tables

When Zen Studios went to Lucasarts about a year ago, they offered a straightforward pitch for a series of Star Wars-themed pinball tables. OK, here’s the Original Trilogy pack: Star Wars, The Empire Strikes Back, Return of the Jedi. OK, now here are the three prequels … “They said no,” said Neil Sorens, Zen’s creative…

Shooters Need To Get Better At Depicting Arabs

Whether it’s the news, television or the movies, Arabs have become synonymously linked with the word “terrorist.” And thanks to video games, we’ve become the target—literally. Both my job and my personal experience give me a unique perspective on the situation. I was born and raised in Detroit, Michigan and moved to the Beirut, Lebanon…

Action combat-powered MMORPG Tera is now free-to-play in a non-insulting way. Go play!

It’s Adulthood vs. Childhood, The Video Game

We all get a little bit nostalgic from time to time. Childhood was so much fun; we could watch cartoons, eat candy all the time, and let our imaginations run wild. Doesn’t adulthood suck? Well… then again, adulthood has some stuff going for it too. We get to go to R-rated movies, and drink alcohol,…

Dragonborn is available on PC today for Skyrim fans, and European PS3 players will start getting DLC beginning Feb. 13.

Get Ready For Some Serious Halo Parkour

Watching this video by ReiKo, you have to wonder if the people who made Halo 4 intended for players to be able to pull off some of the insane trick-jumps that they do. The spacing is just right, the trajectories lead perfectly from point to point… maybe they planned it this way? Hard to say.…

ChefVille ‘Outback Lovin” Quests: Everything You Need to Know

After the first Valentine’s Day event in ChefVille, we learned that both Colby and Rock have feelings for Madeline, but who will she choose as her Valentine? We’ll help both of these men woo their lovely lass via individual sets of quests, starting with Rock and his “Outback Lovin” event. This event comes with new…

Say Happy Valve-entine’s With This Delightful Card Series

Portal is a natural theme for Valentine’s Day, as we saw with these cards Valve released in 2011 before Portal 2‘s arrival. This one is the best of a Valve-themed series done by Tumblr user applenail, which got a lot of attention over the weekend and yesterday. Print them out and put one in a…

The Witcher 3 Will Be The Final Game In The Series

Revealed on The Witcher‘s Facebook page today, this is the 50-second teaser trailer for The Witcher 3, the next-gen open world RPG that was officially announced last night in Game Informer There’s no gameplay footage for the third Witcher game just yet, but hey, at least the music is cool. Developers CD Projekt Red also…

Real-Life Parasites That Behave Remarkably Like Halo‘s Most Disgusting Enemy

With the recent release of Halo 4, players have once again been thrust into the space boots of Master Chief Petty Officer John-117. Master Chief has faced a wide variety of enemies since the 2001 release of Halo: Combat Evolved that have been both impressive and terrifying. The mere sight of a particular foe, however,…

You Don’t Lead Off a Game Called Garfield’s Escape with Odie, Dammit.

Garfield is the most relevant character in comics today. With his laissez faire attitude about life and the way he hides his deep abiding love for his family behind a wall of standoffishness and mild abuse, he’s a charming allegory for the decade we live in, an icon of our time. What do you mean…

A Whole Bunch Of Great Final Fantasy Games Are 50% Off For The Next Two Weeks

If I had a time machine, the second thing I’d do would be go back to last century and tell 12-year-old Jason that in 2013, I will own an ultra-powerful portable gaming device that can play just about any Final Fantasy game, including, for some reason, a bunch of fighting games with weird names and…

The Cute Scavenger Bot In Dead Space 3 Is Less Cute When You Realize It Wants Your Money

There’s a handy little robot in Dead Space 3. It’s designed to collect resources for you in the new sci-fi horror game, released for Xbox 360 and PS3 today. But as helpful as it is, it may be a little too helpful. Like, too helpful at getting you to open your wallet. We already know…

Mario & Luigi Would Make Awesome Ghostbusters, Wouldn’t They?

I was really hoping for a “There is no Princess. There is only Zuul” riff in this mash-up video. But the absence of that doesn’t stop this clip from being a pretty clever blend of Super Mario stuff and Ghostbusters moments. A giant Kirby as the Star Puft Marshmallow Man? Inspired.

Playing Borderlands 2 on Nvidia’s Project Shield

Nvidia’s Tegra 4-powered Project Shield handheld will be great for playing Android games, but the real draw is streaming PC games from your GeForce PC to the handheld and playing anywhere in your house. I can’t wait to play Borderlands 2 in the bathroom without a laptop burning my bare legs. I’m surprised they didn’t…

What Sorcery is This? Magicka Casts Its Spell on Largely Rectangular Tablets

One of PC gaming’s finest co-op experiences is coming to a rectangular productivity-enhancing device near you. How many times will you “accidentally” kill your friends in Magicka: Wizards of the Square Tablet? Developed by Ludosity, the folks behind the lovely Bob Came in Pieces, Wizards of the Square Tablet is a whole new adventure in…

Anti-Censorship Group Shushes New Jersey Library for Banning Games From Its Computers

I wasn’t aware people play video games like Call of Duty in public libraries, but evidently in Paterson, N.J., they do. Or did, anyway. The library board there specifically banned first-person shooters from being played on library computers last month. The National Coalition Against Censorship, the same outfit that upbraided Massachusetts for yanking light-gun games…

Eurogamer takes a deep dive into the Wii U’s graphics processing hardware. Lots of pictures of silicon!

On Feb. 26, you can get a disc compilation of all Borderlands 2 DLCs up to Torgue’s Campaign on Xbox360/PS3 for $29.99.

This Week’s iPhone Charts: Come on Baby Tell Me What’s the Word?

Word up! After a few short weeks at the top of the free charts, Temple Run 2 takes a backseat to What’s the Word?, a word game that uses a set of four pictures as clues. There are two reasons for this. First off, Temple Run 2 has already been downloaded more than 50 million…