I admit, I totally figured Paul F. Tompkins would be about as good a singer as Adele is a stand-up comedian. But I actually think I like his version of “Skyfall” better than hers, mainly because it doesn’t hav...

The other day, a colleague mentioned that she felt like there was something off about Halo 4’s multiplayer. She was getting destroyed by others players, eventually feeling like she didn’t have much of a chance when ...

Welcome back to “Backhanded Box Quotes,” a collection of measured, thoughtful criticism from the user reviews of Metacritic. Coming to the end of the year’s major release calendar, we still have no shortage of...

Family Guy: Back to the Multiverse doesn’t suck. That might shock you, it might be hard to believe, but I swear it to be true. Sure, there are licensed game disasters such as Ghostbusters: Sanctum of Slime to make you question ...

The PlayStation era was one of great promise. No longer did we have to rely on abstract versions of movie characters and comic book villains, because finally we could have (incredibly blocky) 3-D representations of the things w...

Let’s say you really, really want a Wii U for Christmas. Problem is, it’s pretty tough getting hold of a pre-order, because most places are sold out. What options are you left with? Two. The first is to suck it up a...

Yeah, being an adult kind of sucks sometimes. It’s certainly not as much fun as being an 80’s action figure! This funny (and kinda dark) fake trailer asks the question: “What if adulthood had its own toy comme...

Just as the U.S. dominated the medal count at the 2012 Olympic Games in London, our boys brought home the golden Pikachu cup in all three divisions of the 2012 Pokémon World Video Game Championships in Hawaii this weekend. The ...

Unless the game has been designed with touch-screen (or tilt) controls in mind, moving around in mobile game is often an exercise in pain and frustration. So much so that I want to find the man/woman who first invented the virt...