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I’m going to tell you all about this awesome-looking Kickstarter game–but first, let me take a voracious bite out of this raw yellow bell pepper, then stare directly into your eyes with an unflinching grin. As we all know, Iron Chef is the supreme televised cooking competition, because 1) it’s …

The Imitation Game The Film Benedict Cumberbatch kicks off the 58th London Film Festival with a biopic of WWII codebreaker Alan Turing. Why we’re excited to see it Cumberbatch, Keira Knightly and a moving real-life story about a wronged British war hero, The Imitation Game also marks the English language …

Try to leave Frozen Eleum Loyce for the cathedral, and you’ll be attacked by an invisible boss. But once you’ve obtained the Eye of the Priestess, you can take on this massive jungle cat: Avaa, the King’s Pet. Avaa isn’t too difficult to defeat, but she (I assume she) is …

The magic of the Smash Bros. series can be condensed into one simple principle: whether you win or lose, you just want to keep playing. Even after hundreds of matches–solo or multiplayer, with items and without–I still get giddy every time a round starts. Super Smash Bros for 3DS proves …

Onwards and upwards (usually) But not always. Because while games are an ever-evolving medium, constantly improving as new technology facilitates new creative possibilities, those progressive additions and upgrades which improve video games as a whole sometimes throw a big old spanner in the works too. Sometimes ideas which were only …

Artificial Unintelligence AI companions tend to come in a couple different flavors. There’s the true companions, versatile and interesting characters who really add something to the experience, like Elizabeth from BioShock Infinite or Alyx from Half-Life 2. Next are the harmless annoyances, who aren’t great to have around but don’t …

I spawn in the Abandoned Temple courtyard under a starry sky. My mission within these tight halls of weathered stone: Destroy the Lords Gate to Keystone. These gates are essentially wormholes to other realms, and they’re responsible for the spreading demon scourge. My other mission? Try not to dwell too …

The Forza series is a tale of two different racing games. On the one hand, you have Forza Motorsport, the serious and sterile racing simulator. On the other, you have its Ecstasy-gobbling, Burning Man-attending hip racing cousin Forza Horizon. Apparently, Motorsport convinced Horizon to share some of its drugs, and …

Every week we gather together all of the biggest articles from our friends around the internet and put them all in one place. In this roundup, check out the weapons of Bayonetta 2, see if Disney Infinity 2.0 is as awesome as the real life figures, and more. Read these …

Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery The Super Smash Bros. series is one of a kind, isn’t it? Masahiro Sakurai is a genius for taking a genre as complicated as 2D fighting and opening it up to a massive audience of casual and hardcore gamers alike. The simplified control …