Games

The 30 Greatest Live-Action Video Game Commercials Ever

With the great new Halo: Reach live-action game trailer/commercial making its rounds on the internet and XBox Live, we've taken a look back at all the best video game commercials involving real humans and picked out the best from ...

Top 10 Greatest Crossovers in Video Game History

A crossover is when one character from one storyline enters the storyline of another; be it from game to game, cartoon to game, movie to game, etc. Whatever the situation may be, they often come off as cheesy and like marketing pl...

Top 10 Most Ungrateful Kids in Video Games

Here are 10 video game characters who you can totally hang out with to be assured you're not nearly as ungrateful a brat as they are, even if you didn't call your pops on Father's day (sorry dad!). Check out Top 5: Ungrateful Bast...

The 13 Greatest Cats in Video Game History

Kitties! So yeah, it seems it's FINALLY been confirmed that Catwoman herself, Selina Kyle, is going to be in the new Batman movie. So in honor of this momentous occasion, here is this list of the greatest cats, cat women and even ...

Top 10 plot twists in games

Games surprise us less often than movies. Whiles there’s thousands of films with double crosses, narrative shifts and twist endings, most games are as predictable as a spiky haired amnesiac in a JRPG. Whether it’s an unexpected pl...

The 10 Greatest Video Game Characters with Daddy Issues

This Father's Day, let's remember all the greatest (failings of the) fathers in video games and how they affected/inspired some of the most iconic and awesome video game characters in history. Without these daddy issues, all of th...

The 8 Most Badass Flowers in Video Games

In honor of every outlet in the world making a "badass characters" list in honor of the manliest movie of the year coming out this month (The Expendables), we've gone the other way. What's the opposite of manly? Ponies. ...

Top 5 Unintentionally Funny Game Moments

As gamers, we spend much of our time shooting, fighting, crafting, exploring, pwning and swearing at opponents, our controllers and the PS3′s firmware updates. The question is, can games make us laugh too. Well, apart from Monkey ...

Top Ten Worst Game Levels

Top 5 Streetfighter vs Tekken match-ups

Top 5 religions that would make great games

When it comes to finding inspiration for new games, developers are happy to look to films, books, comics, myths and folklore to find rich veins of inspiration. Why not consider major religions too? Sure, we get the odd title like ...

Super Street Fighter 4 – Top 5 Tips for beginners

I recently picked up Super Streetfighter 4 for a crazy-cheap price. I had the original Street fighter 4 and probably racked up over a thousand games. I enjoyed it greatly, but over time I got increasingly annoyed with it till I wa...

Top 5 Overrated games

Top 10 games to play when you’re depressed

We all have tough days, tough weeks and even tough years. At our lowest points we need to find a way to get through the day and so we look at the hobby that normally just entertains us and we ask that hobby to also make us feel be...

Top 5 Reasons not to buy Halo Reach

The Halo marketing storm has well and truly hit, if you haven’t heard the meaningless phrase "Remember Reach" then you’ve been living under a rock with no cable and internet. The web has been plastered with Reach coloure...

Every Final Fantasy game.

The 15 Greatest Suits of Armor in Video Games

With Halloween on the horizon, I was thinking some people might want to think about going for the gold and getting into some awesome pieces of armor, rather than just finding some overalls, a red shirt and cap and calling themselv...

7 Probably Gay Video Game Couples Who Should Get Married

Now that Prop 8 has been repealed by federal courts, here are 7 probably gay video game "couples" whose sexualities have been in question for a while now (publishers are just too scared to admit it) that would benefit fr...

The 25 Best and Worst Nintendo Innovations

There are actually a great number of things Nintendo's done over the years that people might not know about or understand the impact of on the game industry and our lives in general (as gamers.) To this end, here are 25 things to ...

The 8 Most Annoying Types of Video Game Levels

From water levels, to ice levels, to "moving" levels, to escort missions, many games have fallen into designing levels/missions for us with the same kind of challenges and mechanics. From our 8-bit days, all the way to t...

15 Star Wars Gifts Your Nerd Will Love

Need to get that special nerd a gift? Perhaps it's your Star Wars loving friends birthday?Or maybe you want to get the kids something so they'll love your passion too? If so, this is the list for you. It includes the 15 best Star ...

Top 10 Greatest Snow Levels in Video Game History

For the video version of this list Click Here to see it on MetaCafeWhat is it about the Ice Level? Along with a level set in an active volcano, it seems that almost every game just needs to have a portion set at the north freaking...

Top 20 Landmark Comic Book Video Games

The 20 landmark comic book video games isn't just a list of the best or worst comic book inspired games. This list points out the highlights and progression of comic book video games, where they've started and how far they've come...