video games

Good news for freeloaders: Xbox Live Gold, which costs $60 a year, will be free Thursday through Monday.

Yesterday we told you that ‘Halo 4′ would be kicking down your door Nov. 6, and now we’re telling you that it’s bringing some friends along — late-night talk show host Conan O’Brien and ever-present sidekick Andy Richter. The pairing of pasty, non-threatening comedians and a hardcore, distant future-set fragfest doesn’t quite calculate, but whatever.

Now that 343 Industries has taken over the Halo series from Bungie, they’re hard at work on the fourth installment of the best-selling series.

New video game releases in May 2012 belong to Payne. Rockstar Games is bringing back everyone’s favorite brooding, dual-wielding, painkiller-addicted cop Max Payne, and the month rightfully revolves around him. Rockstar releases are almost national holidays at this point and Max Payne 3 should be no exception, especially considering that it’s been nine years since we saw him last… if you don’t c

2K Sports has just announced that their $1 Million Perfect Game Challenge will kick off at 9:00AM PST this morning and continue through April 20th at 11:59PM PST. Eight players who pitch perfect games will win an all-expense-paid trip to NYC in May for a live single elimination tournament at the MLB FanCave to determine the final winner.

If you’re going to re-release what, at its core, is basically the same game every year and expect fans to keep forking over their $60 again and again, you’d better add something worthwhile.

It’s no stretch to say that 2012 has some of the best video games of all time. While we still suffer from a glut of video games before the holidays and right at the end of every year, game publishers are finally starting to learn to spread the releases out a bit. Thanks to stiff competition the first quarter of the year is starting to become a haven for gamers, with a ton of AAA titles released fo

Like a grizzled veteran who rocks a shelf full of MVP trophies and is unthreatened by any up-and-comers on the farm system, ‘MLB 12: The Show‘ no longer has the eye of the tiger. Instead, it just coasts, does the awesome things you expect it to do and calls it a day.

If you grew up in the 1980s, chances are you know how the first level of Super Mario Bros. is played. That first level is etched into the heads of every video gamer, whether you played it on the original NES or not. Now imagine how that first level would have played out had it been martial arts legend Chuck Norris in the game, instead of the Italian plumber we all know and love.

It has been more than 14 years since the Super Nintendo Entertainment System (SNES) has had a new game to make it feel special and useful. Now a gaming company has offered a new reason to plug the thing back into your TV’s A/V output — a brand-new game for the classic console.