I have a soft spot for the Mega Man dynasty. The original series, the X series, Battle Network, ZX…you know, enumerating them in a row like that, I can’t help but feel like Capcom is taking my money. Oh well, what’s one more on the pile? Capcom plans to release a DS collection of the [...]

Just a quick aside before I get to the real article: Tim Schafer’s sleeper comedy Psychonauts is $2 on Steam as part of their usual Midweek Madness promotion. For that price, it might as well be selling on the app store. Speaking of app stores, today Apple revealed its newest product: the iPad. The similarities [...]

a boy and his blob is the childhood you never knew you wanted. It’s a genuinely idyllic summer of adventure, unconditional love, and meticulous platforming. It’s not often that a game can live up to the nostalgia it evokes, but it helps when a modern developer gives it a complete overhaul.

Facebook games may not be modal in the Super Mario Brothers sense, but their browser-ready accessibility makes them newsworthy. According to the Facebook developer blog, the social networking site will launch a games and apps dashboard in the coming weeks. Facebook released a developer API in advance of the unveiling, and its description reveals several [...]

2K Boston may have changed their name back to Irrational Games, but some things are immutable. Fire up your consoles, because the PC release of Bioshock 2 will feature everybody’s favorite DRM: SecuRom. Bioshock veterans will recall the stink about SecuROM in the original game, what with the unrequested rootkit installations, the accusations of spyware, [...]

It’s a tired fact that licensed games try to span two entertainment media and so fail at both. The license does little justice to the source material, and the source constrains player agency. So instead of a good license or a good game, you get half of each. However, now and again, the source material dovetails with established genres. Lucky for Batman, he already lives in an action adventure game.

The heir to the Street Fighter cinematic dynasty has honed the series tennets into something award-winning (via 1up). Rotten tomatoes has recognized The Legend of Chun Li with the coveted Moldy award. With a freshness rating of just 4%, the ill-fated film pushed the boundaries of poor quality farther than any other aggregated film in [...]

Why post real gaming news when there are free games to be downloaded? Telltale Games, the company sometimes credited for singlehandedly reviving the adventure genre, is observing Trogday by making Strong Bad’s Cool Game for Attractive People: 8 Bit is Enough absolutely free. For the next four hours. If you’ve never heard of Trogday, you [...]

Ha! I’ll bet you thought I’d forgotten to post a game of the year article this year. I mean, January is halfway over already. Well, after I spent so much verbiage defending review aggregation, it’d be disingenuous to just leave those descriptive statistics just lying there. So get ready to hedge and prepare to evade personal responsibility, because it’s time to bow to the wisdom of crowds.

Exhibit A Indie developers are so awesome. Consider exhibit A, which comes from Giant Sparrow. Astute readers will recall when we covered their game, The Unfinished Swan, as part of the Independent Games Festival. The so-called first person painting game places you in a blank world where you fire paint baloons to reveal the corners [...]