Phil Villarreal
‘SpellTower’ Mobile Game Review
If Boggle ever got Tetris drunk and made sweet love to it while Words with Friends watched, SpellTower would be its love child.
Harley Quinn Wants a Piece Of You In ‘Arkham City’ Re-Release
Learn this lesson well, gamers — when a great game comes out that everyone gushes over, don’t buy it.
‘Street Fighter X Tekken’ Now Has Downloadable Update
In what we’d like to believe is a reaction to Tekken makers’ subtle smack-talk, but in reality is probably just a coincidence, Capcom has issued a free update for Street Fighter X Tekken. Pop the disc in your Xbox 360 or PS3, and a quick download later you’ll have a better game.
‘Speed Racer: The Beginning’ Mobile Game Review
Thirty years ago, game developers had a simple formula for adapting any movie or TV show — take the main character, plop it in a side-scroller and force it to dodge and/or kill pixelated objects and enemies that vaguely resembled stuff in the show.
Microsoft Wants Your Boss To Fire You Via Xbox Skype Chat
It’s getting closer to 2015 — the year Marty McFly gets canned by his boss through his TV in ‘Back to the Future II’ — so tech companies had better hurry up and make such a thing a possibility before that deadline. Rest assured that Microsoft is on it, possibly upgrading its lackluster Xbox 360 video chat by integrating Skype into the fray.
Mom Whose Kid Went Crazy Buying Stuff In Facebook Games Sues Company
A bunch of free-to-play games aimed at kids are geared to trick ankle-biters into buying upgrades and charging them to parents who game makers hope don’t check their credit card statements.
‘PixelJunk 4am’ Will Start Keeping You Up All Night Next Month
Sony’s downloadable PixelJunk series is full of challenging throwbacks to old-school gaming, tacking new twists onto ancient concepts. Next up to bat is the rhythm-based, motion-control-compatible PixelJunk 4am, which will hit the PS3 May 15.
Next ‘Call of Duty’ Will Be Announced May 1
Even though Call of Duty games aren’t selling as well as they did before, there’s still no bigger name in the show. Any trickle of news about the next game — even an announcement that there will be an announcement — stirs the internet up into a frenzy.
Valve Never Met With Apple To Discuss Game Console?
Either Valve overlord Gabe Newell is messing with us, or that reported meeting about between his company and Apple’s CEO about Apple’s new TV and video game console never happened. Newell insists its the latter, telling Seven Day Cooldown that it, like the rest of us, it only wishes that meeting took place.
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How To Sex Up ‘Skyrim’ On Your PC
PC gaming snobs love to crow on and on about how much better their games look on their high-end rigs as opposed to the Xbox 360 or PS3. Normally we tolerate only so much backtalk before giving those guys atomic wedgies, but in the case of The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim, they do have a point
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‘Prey 2′ Doesn’t Have a Prayer Of Coming Out This Year
Bad news continues to bombard those hoping to play Prey 2 any time soon.
‘Monster Words’ Mobile Game Review
Many times when mobile game developers go wrong, it’s because they’re trying to replicate a home console experience on a device that fits in your pocket. There’s something to be said for thinking small and nailing a simple concept with precision, and that’s just what ‘Monster Words’ does.