Phil Villarreal
New ‘Awesomenauts’ Characters Are On The Way
The downloadable, mutiplayer battle arena extravaganza Awesomenauts aims to keep its burgeoning fan base interested by pumping out downloadable content. A pair of new characters are said to be on the way, and you won't have to wait for them to show up on your download queues before you get to know them.
‘Sons of Anarchy’ Game Will Be On Consoles, Not Browsers
Here's how the news cycle has gone for gamers who are into the FX biker gang show Sons of Anarchy: There's gonna be a game based on the show! (Yay!) It's gonna be a junky advergame that plays on browsers (Boo!) Just kidding, plans for the crappy game have been dumped. Now there's a real game coming. (Yay!)
There’s No New ‘Avengers’ Game To Play Right Now, But One Is Coming
When a superhero flick rakes in $207 million in its first weekend, you can bet game studios are filled with executives smacking themselves in the forehead for deciding not to have made a tie-in video game. Somehow, there was no cheap, slapped-together Avengers game to take advantage of the runoff from the box office avalanche, but Ubisoft assures us that there will be a game.
‘Dishonored’ and New ‘Hitman’ Game Get Release Dates
Our dance cards for later this year are starting to fill up. And by "dance," we mean "sit on our rumps until 3 a.m. playing games." The Assassin's Creed-wannabe Dishonored comes out Oct. 9, followed Nov. 20 by the latest in the outrageous hired-gun sim Hitman series, titled Hitman: Absolution.
‘Big Win Slots’ Mobile Game Review
Big Win Slots is an affront to gaming, and a cruel, exploitative money-sucker that you need to avoid at all costs.
GameStop Is About To Get All Steamy
GameStop and digital PC game distributor Steam have always given each other the stink eye. The retailer even tried to swipe some of Steam's customers by buying one of Valve's rivals, Impulse, but has apparently realized that it's easier to join Valve rather than fight against it.
Redbox Will Only Rent You Half Of ‘Max Payne 3′
If you're thinking about renting Max Payne 3 on Xbox 360, you won't want to get it from Redbox. The company says it's only renting the first disc in the two-disc set, meaning you'll be stuck with nowhere to go once you work your way halfway through the campaign.
‘HBO Go’ Mobile App Review
Let's get one thing out of the way -- Just because we subscribe to HBO doesn't mean we're made of money. Sure, you can subscribe to the premium channel in the normal way, but we just call up our cable company, threaten to move to DirecTV because it offered us free HBO on a flyer, and accept a 6-month trial of the show in exchange for staying with our current provider.
Play Original ‘Wolfenstein’ For Free On Your Browser
Back in the early 1990s, all it took to qualify a shooter as "great" was that it was better than Duck Hunt. And few were better than Duck Hunt.
Guy Gets Job By Putting His Face On Billboard
It's so tough to find a job out there that no gimmick is too desperate or pathetic. Just look at a guy from Minneapolis who was so hard up for a job that he blew his meager funds for some face time on an electronic billboard, begging someone -- anyone -- to hire him.
‘Minecraft’ Punishes Folks Who Lack HDTVs
The moment that finally spurred us to take on even more credit card debt in the name of scoring an HDTV was when the menu text in Dead Rising was illegible on our old, boxy 25-inch standard-def set.
Is ‘Grand Theft Auto V’ Hitting Shelves Early?
If you study the right subjects, know the right people and are good enough at what you do, you can make a healthy living just predicting what you think others will do. Such is the charmed life of those who work at Wedbush Securities, which has peaked into the crystal ball and forecasted Grand Theft Auto V hitting shelves in October.
Microsoft Patents Controls That Will Test Your Squeezing Strength
Rumors are flying around about Microsoft's Xbox 360 follow-up, code-named Durango. After wacky suggestions that it will refuse to play used games and lack a disc drive, the latest zinger is that Microsoft could include a controller that responds to your tender squeezes.
‘The King of Fighters 2012′ Mobile Game Review
In case you haven't noticed, there's nowhere on an iPhone to plug in an arcade-style fighting stick. That means we're stuck with touch controls that try to replicate arcade setups, which is about as easy as playing handball while wearing oven mitts.
‘Starhawk’ Map Packs Will Be Priced To Move
It's easy as a gamer to feel scammed when a publisher spews out a slew of downloadable map packs before you've managed to hack through the box's security stickers. There's no way to know for sure whether or not the company had the stuff done in advance but just held it back in order to suck some more easy money from you.
‘Madden NFL 13′ Cover Lets You Be The Ball
If you've ever wondered what a football might see as it speeds into the outstretched arms of Detroit Lions receiver Calvin Johnson, wonder no more. Also, you need better things to think about in your spare time.
Amazon Wants to Be Your Mom and Dress You Up All Nice
When you think go-to places for high-end fashion, Amazon falls somewhere between Walmart and Hot Topic. The online sales giant wants to change all that, posting itself up to be your one-stop shop for name brand vests and shoes that won't get you sent home from work.
‘Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater HD’ Rail-Slides Into the World This June
Ah, 1999. The year of 'The Matrix', Y2K scares and J. Lo's 'On the 6'. It was an innocent time, when a Tony Hawk skateboarding game would be met with excitement rather than laughter.
Will ‘Dead Space 3′ Trade Space Station Corridors for a Winter Wonderland?
Rumor has it drastic changes are afoot for the Dead Space series, which replicates the thrills and chills of the Alien movies so well that it practically feels as though Ridley Scott cribbed from the notebook of Dead Space hero Isaac Clarke. But there are so many metallic corridors you can slink through before things start to get a little old, which is why we're pleased to hear the setting for the
‘NearBeer’ Mobile App Review
We'd like to believe we're so psychically in tune with beer that we can sense its presence, but that's just not the case. That's why NearBeer exists, to show us how close we are to cheap booze at all times.