Japan is great Last night I played an amazing and utterly bizarre arcade machine from Japan calledCho Chabudai Gaeshi!(Super Table-Flip!). The idea is simple: release pent up anger and agression by punching a plastic table over and over and over again, building up your agression until you feel ready to grab the table from beneath and flip it over, sending virtual wedding cake, school stationary or picnic supplies flying. It’s a super simple concept, but one that was a bunch of fun to come across while drunk in Amsterdam....

According to the box art of the long-awaitedGhost Recon: Future Soldier, Ubisoft’s third-person shooter is “Better with Kinect.” Somehow, I doubt that, but let’s go along with it. The Xbox.com page that housed the box art has been taken down, which only serves to further validate any rumors. This seems to confirm that the game will support Microsoft’s waggle-thing. The last timeFuture Soldierand motion control were mentioned, it was back when Kinect was still called Project Natal....

Get ready to be aggravated with consumers around the world becauseActivision is claimingthatGuitar Hero 5is comfortably outsellingThe Beatles: Rock Band. If you take a look at our reviews of each game one can clearly see that the better game is not the game that is selling the best. Plus, IT’S THE BEATLES! Now,GH5did have the ever popular guitar/game package thatThe Beatlesdid not, and the series also has a larger install base (people still don’t seem to understand that you may useGHcontrollers forRock Band, and vica versa), but that doesn’t excuseGH5outsellingThe Beatlesfour to one in the U....

Feeling flu-ish? Sony Online Entertainment boss John Smedley said on Twitter that a new post-apocalyptic MMO called H1Z1 will be coming “soon.” A new episode of the Game Talk Live podcast, set to show at 8 p.m. Eastern will reveal some early gameplay footage, saysPolygon. Smedley says that you’ll play as an apocalypse survivor stuck in a world filled of zombies. He also teased that following this evening’s reveal, H1Z1 will be playable soon....

And it won’t cost you an arm or a leg What happens when you combine the world’s most popular toy brand with one of the most influential first-person shooters of all time? That’s right, you getLEGO Half-Life 2. If you ever wondered what it’d be like to take on the Combine or seek the Vortigaunt’s help as one of the Danish company’s little plastic figures, wonder no more. The mod is available on theSteamworkshop (thanks,PCGamesN) and comes from userNot Dave or Daniel....

Historical means no horned helmets! Expeditions: Conquistadorby Logic Artists is a great, and difficult, tactical RPG. So naturally, when I heard that another game is being made in the same vein, I immediately became excited.Expeditions: Vikinghas been annouced, and there’s a trailer to celebrate. The trailer doesn’t show any gameplay, but Logic Artists has mentioned turn-based combat, so players can expect gameplay similar toConquistador. Logic Artists has implemented some of the feedback from the first game intoViking....

Your second shot at your one shot Lazy assassins and newcomers to the trained killing profession are getting a second shot at putting guys in the ground. The big wigs and head honchos who dodged death by way of the assassin never showing up are pressing their luck and coming back to the scene of the non-crime. IO Interactive is reactivating all ofHitman‘s limited-time Elusive Targets for those who didn’t try them the first time ’round....

Released back in 2010,One Chanceis a bite-sized Adobe Flash adventure that asks what you’d do with the final week of your life? The world as we know it is fast approaching its end, and it’s all because of your scientific discovery. What was meant to be the cure to cancer has twisted into a far faster killer, and now it’s airborne. Your choices are clear: Spend what little time you have left with your family or keep pushing on to find a cure to the mess you created....

Yes it can. Once again, we have a Sony exclusive developer claiming that its PS3 exclusive game can only be done on the console it’s exclusive to. Sucker Punch has continued this absurd tradition, despite the fact thatinFAMOUS 2doesn’t even look that great in the graphics department. “There’s just more processing power on the PS3. If you look at games likeUncharted 2that’s a game that you actually can’t do on Xbox no matter how clever you are,” claims development director, and apparent PR thrall Chris Zimmerman....

Retrospect in a pandemic The following contains major spoilers for the main story of Insomniac’s Spider-Man (2018). You have been warned. I recently jumped back into my oldSpider-Mansave file from 2019. I was in college when I started it, and I don’t quite remember why I didn’t finish the game, but I left it at about 75% complete. Jumping back into the middle of it was a bit jarring at first because I had lost some of the story beats over time, but a quick read through the Wikipedia page and I was good to go....

The Thaumaturgeis 11 Bit Studio’s morally ambiguous story-driven RPG. Isometric RPGs are great on handhelds, so I have good news aboutThe Thaumaturgewith some additional caveats. Yes,The Thaumaturgecan be played on Steam Deck. But here’s the issue: It’s locked at the lowest settings. It doesn’t let you change graphical settings when playing on the device. How to change graphical settings in The Thaumaturge on Steam Deck There’s a way around those limitations if you want to tweak things more to their liking....

Rockman x Capcom Cafe Japan has random video game themed cafes at nearly every turn (especially in Tokyo), including a dedicated Capcom cafe that has Mega Man merch year round. But every so often a publisher like Capcom will open up a special pop-up for a limited time to celebrate an event — like Mega Man’s 30th anniversary. According to Famitsu, an anniversary Mega Man cafe will be opening up in Aeon Lake Town in Koshigaya — a place that sounds like it’s from an anime but is actually Japan’s “largest eco-friendly shopping center” — for a limite dtime....

Magic: The Gatheringis set to collaborate with Marvel in a deal that spans multiple decks and years. This news came courtesy of Wizards of the Coast via press release and a new, rather down-to-earth YouTube teaser video. Multiple Planes Makes For Easy Collabs Focusing on the press release, fans won’t have to wait too long for the first MarvelUniverses Beyondcollab deck. In 2025, WotC will release the first tentpole Magic set (a full card collection complete with boosters, starter decks, etc....