Gaming & Culture

The Top 10 Games of 2009

Peter and I chose our top 10 games of the year. For Time. Then we chose them for Techland. Amazingly they turned out to be the exact same list both times. Here it is.

Or anyway here’s the first 40% of it. The whole list is over at Time.com, for some reason. I don’t want to talk about it.

One good thing about this year’s list: it …

Sex and ‘The Saboteur’: Dev Talks Nudity in New Game

Will sex sell a video game?

Electronic Arts sure hopes so. There was a bit of controversy last week when it was discovered that those who purchase The Saboteur, a third-person, open-world title set in World War II, will receive a code that allows for the girls of the game’s Belle de Nuit, a Parisian strip club, to be completely …

EA Confirms Dead Space 2, Its Dismemberment Plan

Alien dismemberment rules. So that’s why we’re glad that Electronic Arts has finally officially announced Dead Space 2.

The sequel to last year’s critically-acclaimed, third-person survival horror game will feature the same protagonist, Isaac Clarke, as he wields “new tools to gruesomely slice and dismember” the creepy, Thing-like …

Box Art Reviews: The Death Of Fun Edition

Video games are supposed to be fun, right? But in this week’s round of box art reviews, where we look at the covers of new game releases, we wonder if the box art designers forgot that fact…

Learn Science (DS)
What’s on the box: Some test tubes filled with colored liquid, a telescope, a dinosaur skeleton, Einstein’s relativity …

The PlayStation Turns 15, We Reminisce

Happy Birthday, PlayStation!

It’s hard to believe that it’s been 15 years since you were born in Japan. You brought us so many good times during your prime. Let us count the games… er, ways:

— You scared the crap out of us with the first Resident Evil.
— You gave us what is perhaps the most beloved RPG of all time in Final

New WiiWare Game’s Got More Abs Than Frank Miller’s 300

Move over Mario. Your flabby gut’s got nothin’ on Muscle March.

Today Namco Bandai announced that its Nintendo WiiWare title, a ‘quirky Japanese action game stuffed full of macho bodybuilders,’ will be released in the U.S. this Winter (it was released in Japan back in May).

Up to four players can take the role of Tony and his …

Do Your ‘Duty’ With Call of Duty Underwear

What do you give the gamer who’s already got it all?

How about a clean pair of underwear?

While shopping at my mom’s local Super Walmart in Florida, I spotted these official Call of Duty-branded boxers, complete with camouflage colors and the face of a battle-worn solider.

If CoD isn’t their thing, you could always go for the

New Star Wars, TRON Games To Be Revealed At The VGAs

Spike TV’s Geoff Keighley announced via his Twitter that the upcoming VGAs would reveal details on a new Star Wars and Tron game. I just might have to watch this year. And let’s not forget about Halo: Reach because we all know how much of a fanboy Lev is.

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