Like L.A. Noire two years ago, Beyond: Two Souls will have a special showcase at the prestigious Tribeca Film Festival

Get A Load Of This Criminally Cool Red Dead Redemption Monopoly Set

There are several cool video-game themed Monopoly sets out there, but I’d be hard-pressed to think of a cooler one than this homemade Red Dead Redemption set put together by Redditor inspirermeg From the imgur description: This was a 2-week project at school, so though I’m happy with the result – I wasn’t able to…

The Most Beautiful Cartoon-Style Adventure Games

After LucasArts’ brilliant 1993 game Day of the Tentacle, cartoon-style point-and-click adventure games slowly became their own sub-genre. Although the genre has had its ups and downs, these games are still around: Think Gemini Rue or the new Broken Sword Here’s our collection of the most beautiful cartoon-style adventure games. Broken Sword II: The Smoking…

Another Serious Game Falls to Apple’s Anger-Inducing Approval Process

Proven countless times over the past several years alone, video games are a form of entertainment uniquely suited to communicating serious subjects in an interactive fashion — far more effectively than reading a book or watching a documentary. Unfortunately Apple wants nothing to do with that sort of communication, so UK developer Littleloud’s Sweatshop HD…

Sony has announced a partnership with Unity that’ll let the popular dev tools work with their platforms, including PS4.

One Last Crazy Theory About Mass Effect 3’s Ending

This is the last time that you’ll ever lose someone after this it’s you and your friends it’s you and your friends. —Stars, “The Last Song Ever Written” I have a theory about the end of Mass Effect 3. Not a serious theory, mind you. A crazy theory, the kind even I don’t take seriously,…

Kickstarter says that game campaigns have raised more than 100 million dollars combined. That’s a lotta bucks!

Next week folks will be able to sign up for Zynga.com without Facebook, as the company explores its independence

This Gears of War: Judgment easter egg won’t teach the Locust to play guitar, but it will turn them into Bucketheads.

Far Cry 3, Re-Imagined In Grand Theft Auto IV

This combination of mods for Grand Theft Auto IV makes the game look more or less like last December’s Far Cry 3, and this machinima shared by RyderPL completes, or at least continues, the illusion. It’s… well, let’s say the motion capture in Far Cry 3 is a touch above what GTA IV‘s game engine…

Magic: The Gathering Casts a Spell on Android This Summer

Wizards of the Coast has turned Magic: The Gathering — Duels of the Planeswalkers into geek Madden, each year releasing a fresh set of cards, formulating new challenges, and unleashing them upon a card-collecting public that never stops wanting more. This year’s entry reaches a little further than 2013’s iOS, PC, Mac, Xbox 360 and…

VentureBeat breaks down the story of a woman whose tweet at a conference got a guy fired, then was fired herself

Looks like Audiosurf Air is taking a few notes from SSX judging from this trailer.

Saga #11 Is The Most Romantic Comic I Read All Week. What About You?

So you all read the latest issue of Brian Vaughan and Fiona Staples’ awesome sci-fi family drama and thought I was going to lead with all the S-E-X that happens in there? Nope. The sequence where The Will gives the best cat in all comics the hug of life totally made me gasp when I…

The Most Dramatic Uno Trailer You’ll Ever See

Coming soon to Android, iPad and Facebook, Gameloft’s Uno & Friends will probably deliver a much more relaxing experience than the one depicted in this first trailer. There is more acting going on in this than in all three Star Wars prequels combined.

Injustice Gets a Little More Villainous by Adding Black Adam. You Can Try Him Out at PAX East.

Right now, it looks like dev studio NetherRealm is trying to account for as many of DC Comics’ heaviest hitters in Injustice as possible. They’ve just announced that Captain Marvel Shazam’s archenemy will be flying into the fray. Teth-Adam will be joined by Raven, the half-demon empath who’s been a stalwart of the Teen Titans…

They Make Some of the Best Adventure Games. Now They’re Taking on Turn-Based Tactics.

Germany’s Daedalic Entertainment has spent the past several years making a name for itself as one of the top adventure gaming companies, consistently hand-crafting unique point-and-click experiences for fans of the genre. Now the developer prepares to wade into deeper waters with Blackguard, its first tactical turn-based role-playing game. I’m in. If Daedalic applies the…

Valve’s just launched an Indie Spring Sale on Steam just in time for next week’s Independent Games Festival

Oh God, What’s Nic Cage’s Face Doing On All These Pokémon?

Nic Cage’s face must go on everything. It’s the law. Not even Pokémon are exempt. Someone started a Pokémon x Nic Cage Tumblr and it is glorious. They’re going through the original 151 Pokemon, and so far what they’ve created is amazing. Check it out: You can view more…uh, Cagemon? Over at this here Tumblr.…

Ultima Creator Richard Garriott Says His ‘Game Designers Suck’ Comment Was ‘Taken Out-of-Context’

Yesterday, game-makers and fans were all up in arms over comments made by Richard Garriott to PC Gamer, where he said, among other things, that “most game designers really just suck.” Now the man best known for his ground-breaking work on the Ultima games has issued a clarification. On the website for his Portalarium dev…