Phil Villarreal
Cough Up $30, Get ‘Max Payne 3′ DLC Until Football Season
There are two ways to look at downloadable content: That publishers are holding back some good stuff in order to bleed some more money out of you, or that the new stuff is a sign that they’ve been hard at work making new levels and maps, extending the life of your purchase.
Jiggly Boobs, See-Thru Shirts Star In ‘Dead or Alive 5′
The Dead or Alive fighter series has always worked its sales pitches like this: Come for the bouncing racks sported by its comely fighters, stay for the balanced brawling and finely-tuned physics.
‘Ziggurat’ Mobile Game Review
Intentionally awful graphics and controls that would be right at home on a sticky arcade trackball aren’t an automatic formula for success, but it works for Ziggurat, a single-screen shooter that seems like it was a holdover from the early 1980s with graphics from the early 90s.
Sony Hands Out 6 ‘Free’ Games To Premium Subscribers
Sony’s PlayStation Plus program doesn’t always prove to be worth the $50 annual subscription fee, but every now and again, it hooks subscribers up with enough so-called “free” stuff to justify coughing up the dough. Every time we try to get it, it keeps pulling us back in.
Check Out The First ‘Call of Duty: Black Ops II’ Trailer
The official Call of Duty: Black Ops II reveal has come, and its debut trailer — no doubt the first of several we’ll be teased with in the next six months — reveals all sorts of tidbits about the next entry in the surefire blockbuster first-person shooter, due out Nov. 13.
Forget Dogs, This Beer-Dispensing KegDroid Is Clearly Man’s Best Friend
Tablets are great and all, but one major, near-unforgivable way they’ve always fallen short is their inability to dispense beer. Finally, KegDroid — which lets you gush out brews via a Motorola Xoom — is here to fix that dreadful problem.
‘Mortal Kombat’ Vita Review
It may be called Mortal Kombat, but it keeps coming back with the regularity of an immortal serial killer in a slasher flick. After an April 2011 reboot, February saw the game come out again as the Komplete Edition, along with all the downloadable costumes and characters plus the 1995 movie.
‘Tie Knots’ App Review
Have you ever tried the Kelvin, the Double, the Freestyle or the Four in Hand? No, they’re not sexual positions. They’re ways to knot up that corporate noose that’s roped around your neck.
‘Hero Academy’ Mobile Game Review
Turn-based strategy games on your phone are way better than they were on tabletops. We remember wanting to pimp-smack Scrabble or Monopoly opponents for taking too long to make their moves back in our caveman days, yet have no problem waiting for buddies to take days to move our Words with Friends or Draw Something matches along.
‘Skyrim’ Will Now React To Your Yells, Via Kinect
We’ve spent many hours yelling at The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, and the game’s always taken it in stride, pretending as though it didn’t hear us. Now it’s done playing nice. Thanks to an update released today, those playing the game on an Xbox 360 with a Kinect device hooked up will be able to control the game with their voice.
‘God of War: Ascension’ Will Stage a Multiplayer Orgy Of Blood
Like a dude using a laptop with his pants around his ankles, Kratos has always been known for doing his own thing. The rage-fueled Spartan has gotten his rocks off by slashing enemies into oblivion. Everyone onscreen, even innocent bystanders, were nothing but fleshy balloons to be popped into red level-up orbs. But his next game, God of War Ascension, will change all that.
GameFly Starts Giving Out Free and Discounted Mobile Games
GameFly really wishes it could get subscribers to cough up a monthly fee to play things like Angry Birds Space and Ziggurat, but its mad scientists have yet to find a way to stick a game disc or cartridge into your iPhone.
So the Netflix of Gaming is trying the next best thing — giving out free and cheap games via its iOS app.