WoW‘s 10 Million Subscribers Are Great… Until You Look at Facebook’s Billion

Sitting down and catching up on all the news this morning, a pair of headlines jumped out at me. Both were, in a sense, subscriber numbers. Each, by itself, is mildly interesting. Together, though, the figures paint a clear picture of why game development today is moving in a particular direction. One figure has to…

Yup, the Flood Will Look Really Gross in Halo 4

We’ve already seen how the creepy cosmic symbiotes from the Halo games will come back in 343 Industries’ upcoming release. These new screenshots offer added detail as to how they engage with Spartan soldiers in Halo 4‘s multiplayer Flood mode. Previous visual interpretations of the Flood never really gave me the shivers but this new…

Man, Do I Want This Ridiculous Bouncing Borderlands 2 Grenade

I don’t put too much stock in grenades in Borderlands 2. They never seem to do enough damage, and aren’t as direct and to-the-point as a good solid bullet to the face. But I might put a bit more stock in them if I had a grenade like this one, as uploaded and demonstrated by…

Here’s the Stuff from the New Assassin’s Creed III Trailer That Ubisoft Doesn’t Want Americans to See

Ubisoft released a new trailer for Assassin’s Creed III today. In the American version that you’ll see below, it looks like Connor killed one American soldier. But in the UK version of the trailer above, it’s clear that he’s ending the lives of many American revolutionary rebels. There’s a 30-second difference in the runtime of…

New Paper Mario Trailers Never Fail To Make Me Happy

We’ve already seen some of the footage in this new trailer for Paper Mario: Sticker Star, but that doesn’t make it any less awesome. I love me some Paper Mario. Can’t wait for this one. For more on Sticker Star, go check out Patricia’s preview

Nintendo’s 3DS eShop Line-Up For The Rest of 2012 Is Spectacular

Nintendo just dumped a list of games coming to the 3DS’ eShop through the rest of the year and slightly beyond. Some of these games were expected but there are a lot of surprises. The surprises include a sequel to the well-regarded 2011 eShop game Pushmo and three of four games made by Japanese all-star…

Here’s Your First Look at Desmond in Assassin’s Creed III

You know, people focus on Altair and Ezio and Connor as the faces of Assassin’s Creed, but Ubisoft’s historical action series is really Desmond Miles’ story. So it’s a bit weird that we haven’t seen what the Assassin descendant looks like in Assassin’s Creed III’s new Anvil engine. The screens here come from Assassin’s Creed…

Skyrim: Hearthfire is now available on Steam on PC. You can download it for $4.99.

One Of Torchlight II‘s Better Easter Eggs Pays Tribute To Skyrim

Of the many great easter eggs in Torchlight II (I particularly liked the tribute to The Goonies in the first act), many were for other video games—from Borderlands to Minecraft I’m not sure how I didn’t immediately catch this humorous Skyrim tribute, but I didn’t—thanks to TorchlightGGP and the wonders of YouTube, you can too.…

Looks Like Xbox Live Is Down For Some People

For the second time in less than a month, Microsoft’s online service for the Xbox 360 appears to be experiencing problems affecting a broad swath of users. Here’s what the official Xbox Live status page says: Members will experience difficulties attempting to login to Xbox LIVE. Our engineers are hard at work to find and…

Obama Might Have Lost The First Debate, But The Xbox Did Even Worse

General consensus is that Mitt Romney won the presidential debate last night. President Barack Obama came in second. Jim Lehrer’s moderating skills were a distant third. But Microsoft’s Xbox Elections 2012, a platform that promised to let viewers watch the debate on their 360s and witness as audiences react in real time, might have performed…

Snacktaku PSA: It’s National Taco Day. Why Are You Sitting There Not Eating?

Did you know it was National Taco Day? Deadpool knows. I’m sure the people that make the Facebook game Rubber Taco do. I’m not so sure you do. Because if you did realize it was the day to celebrate the traditional Mexican dish of a flour or corn tortilla packed with stuff (i.e. Taco Bell’s…

The Next Paper Mario Reminds Me Why I Cherished Stickers As A Kid

Stickers, ineffable wonder, and childhood go hand in hand. And perhaps Mario has always spoken to this. Cliff Bleszinski once said that “There’s something about the hidden element to Mario where you jump and hit your head on a block and just out of nowhere secret things would appear. They made you feel like a…

Gamevil’s Turn-Based RPG Kingdom Royale Now Available in the App Store

Part kingdom-building sim, part Advance Wars, Gamevil’s Kingdom Royale is turn-based RPG battles with a social twist, and it’s available for free right now.

Maine Democrat is Supposedly Unfit For Office Because She Loves ‘Poisoning and Stabbing’ in World of Warcraft

Colleen Lachowicz is running for state senate in Waterville, Maine. She also plays a lot of World of Warcraft. According to Maine Republicans, this means that she is unfit for office. The Maine Republican Party has set up an entire website dedicated to digging up old forum posts made by Lachowicz on Blizzard’s online role-playing…

Free New Mass Effect 3 Multiplayer DLC Adds Collectors, Challenges, and Creepy Hazards

Mass Effect 3 is getting its largest multiplayer DLC to date, BioWare announced on their blog today. The update, called “Retaliation,” adds not only new character classes and weapons, but also new enemies, new modes to existing maps, and a challenge feature, with a whole host of unlockables to earn. “Retaliation,” like the game’s other…

Try Not To Get Yourself Killed In This Dishonored Interactive Trailer

Dying to play Dishonored? This interactive trailer isn’t the game, but it might tide you over until Tuesday. Like other interactive trailers, this set of videos lets you choose your own approach to handle one of the early levels from Dishonored. As such, the trailer contains spoilers for this particular area of the game. That…

Assassin’s Creed III‘s Native American Hero Had A Very Hard Life

This teaser for Assassin’s Creed III is different from the blitz of video we’ve been getting as the threequel nears release. In the clip, you see a bit of Connor’s life from before he became an Assassin. The scenes of him running through the forest look beautiful but get harshly contrasted when he comes home…

The New SimCity Looks Gorgeous In This Day-By-Day Gameplay Demo

We’ve heard and seen a lot about the built-in multiplayer aspects of the new SimCity, and we’ve had stills showing off how much life there suddenly is in our virtual towns. But now, this video shows off the actual day-to-day play—and, excitingly, the nights as well— in SimCity. It all begins, of course, with choosing…

World of Warcraft: Mists of Pandaria sold 2.7 million copies, Blizzard announced this morning. Total WoW subs: 10 mil.