The Google Play Store is a Mess. Hooked Can Help.

With hundreds of thousands of games to choose from and few organization options, Google Play isn’t the friendliest place to find something to play. It’s easy to get lost in the ever-growing sea of Android apps. Game discovery app Hooked is Google Play’s lighthouse. There are a bunch of game discovery apps for Google Play,…

This Sure Wasn’t The Way I Expected Red Dead Redemption 10 To Be “Announced”

About a month ago I decided to finally play Max Payne 3, incidentally our “Best Drinking in a Dirty T-Shirt” GOTY. The game prompted me to make a social account with Rockstar, so I did. This came up when I was picking an avatar for the account—I knew Red Dead was a franchise, but damn!…

Guitar Hero 7 Was Going To Have Six-String Guitars, No Drums, No Singing. Was Cancelled In 2011.

The party ended for the once-mighty Guitar Hero series in 2011, when Activision finally decided that the world had played enough guitar video games. The last Guitar Hero we got was 2010’s Guitar Hero: Warriors of Rock. But a source familiar with the series’ development says that a Guitar Hero 7 was in development at…

Tokyo Crash Mobs Lets You Throw Ninjas At Other Ninjas. It’s As Silly As It Sounds.

Nintendo revealed during the Nintendo Direct broadcast today that Tokyo Crash Mobs—known in Japan where it is already released as Line Nageloop—will be coming to the eShop at an undisclosed time. In order to keep the line-cutters at bay, you’ll have to throw people at other people. Take a look at the silly gameplay in…

Journey‘s Alternate Ending. Just, Uh, Watch For Yourself.

Journey is a beautiful game. The ending was equally beautiful, but also sad and heartwarming somehow all at the same time. But this alternate ending? This alternate ending is something else.

Far Cry 3’s “Racism” And Other Reasons People Aren’t Picking Up Some Of This Year’s Games

Sometimes it seems as if the end-all-be-all metric we use to determine if we will purchase something is “fun.” In actuality, there are things about a game that might make someone think twice about purchasing it—and they have nothing to do with how the game plays or how fun it is. Recently I noticed a…

ChefVille ‘Rapid Rosemary’ Quests: Everything You Need to Know

ChefVille and Cafe World already share plenty of traits due to the simple fact that they’re both Facebook cooking games. But the former retained a limitation from Cafe World that should have been scrapped: a counter limit. Instead or removing this limit entirely, allowing players to cook as many dishes as they’d like without waiting…

Nintendo’s President Plays a Thief in Game & Wario

Announced today during a Nintendo Direct broadcast, Game & Wario bundles together 16 mini-games where players with the Wii U gamepad and Wimotes will compete against each other. One game called Fruits will have players stealing edibles while the others try to catch him. In the video above, Nintendo president Satoru Iwata snatches an apple…

The Wii U’s Lego Game Appears to Use the GamePad Well

Untethered to any movies, comics or TV shows, the Wii U’s Lego City Undercover will be -gasp- an entirely original Lego game from Traveller’s Tales and Nintendo. We saw it at E3 and today we’ve got a new look at it. Pretty nice, huh? It’s slated for an early 2013 release, though it’s unclear if…

The Pokémon Creator’s First Non-Pokémon Game In Ages Is Coming To America

The rhythmic combat game HarmoKnight will be coming to the 3DS in North America “soon,” Nintendo said today. The most interesting thing about the game? It’s the first non-Pokémon game that Pokémon creators GameFreak have made since Drilldozer on the Game Boy Advance. The game was released in Japan this past fall. See it in…

Fire Emblem: Awakening will be out for the 3DS in the U.S. on February 4th, 2013.

Pikmin 3 Gets Beautiful on Wii U Next Spring

In today’s Nintendo Direct, a release timeframe of Q2 2013 was revealed for Pikmin 3. During the broadcast, viewers got a look at the in-progress version of the latest entry of the strategy action franchise. The sequences showed Captain Olimar and a troop of Pikmin wandering through lush garden environments, battling with a giant crab…

Wii Fit U will be released for Wii U in “the first part of 2013,” whenever that is. Nintendo says it’ll include dancing!

Looks Like There’s New Mass Effect 3 DLC on the Way

Eurogamer reports that a new installment of single-player content is being made for Mass Effect 3 The add-on is being crafted at BioWare Edmonton—as opposed to BioWare’s new Montreal studio, where the Omega DLC was created—with all the writers who worked on Mass Effect 3 coming back. A post by designer Jos Hendriks on BioWare’s…

Beeline Games is cleaning up the town early next year with a social mobile game based on the Ghostbusters franchise.

This Game Is Like An iPhone Gears Of War, With Snowballs

‘Tis the season for snowball fights, at least if you’re lucky enough to live in a part of the world that gets below freezing. Grab some friends, put on your snow-pants, ball up some icy white residue from the sidewalk, and let it fly. Video games have a history of great snowball fights, and Uppercut…

The Best (You Make Up The Category) Video Games Of The Year

It’s Game of the Year season. You’ll be seeing lots of people name their Best Video Game, Best PC Game, Best Xbox 360 Game, Best Shooter, Best Fighting Game, Best, Best, Best… And yet I can tell you right now that some games that deserve recognition won’t win anyone else’s awards, because they don’t fit.…

If This Was An Official Nintendo Commercial, Maybe People Would Know What The Hell A Wii U Is

A lot of people don’t seem to realize what the Wii U is. Is this cryptic Nintendo commercial just another Wii? I don’t get it, some people said. Even Michelle Obama didn’t make the distinction But maybe this commercial would help clear up that this is a new console. Or, hell, maybe it’d make things…

While we wait for the doors to Zynga’s CoasterVille to open, here’s the launch trailer, complete with horking.

Watch This Guy Shoot $20,000 Worth of Real-Life Far Cry 3 Weaponry

FPS Russia is one of my favorite YouTubers, because I get to live vicariously through him shooting weapons that I doubt I could get my hands on. Yesterday the esteemed shooter uploaded a video to show off some of Far Cry 3‘s weapons, which Kirk is a big fan of Watch FPS Russia shoot Far…