100 Floors is a simple iOS game in the spirit of room escape games. Each screen of the game gives you an elevator door and some situation. Your job is to figure out how to open the elevator’s doors and get to the next level. The levels make good use practically all of the device’s various input methods and some of the solutions can be really difficult to glean from the limited clues on screen. This can be frustrating as the puzzles may seem like they’re just based on chance, but there’s almost always some hint somewhere that will point…

Here it is: – Minecraft on Xbox 360 was profitable in an hour. Unsurprisingly, Notch was happy about the relationship with Microsoft. – Nintendo is dropping the prices of the DSi and XL to 99 dollars and 129 respectively. – Both Assassin’s Creed III and Max Payne 3 released trailers. – GameStop may begin selling vouchers for digital distribution platform Steam. – Dishonored has been set for October 9th (in North America) and Hitman: Absolution will be out November 20th. – Sons of Anarchy, the popular TV show on FX, has a console game in the works. – That Avengers tie-in game that everyone’s been expecting has…

Celebrating the 20th anniversary of Wolfenstein 3D, the monumentally important first person shooter has been released for free on the Apple app store and browsers. The game still manages to be fun and the history of the first person shooter is very evident within it. Even though you can’t aim, you can still move (and even strafe!), shoot, collect items, and open doors. What more do you need? Oh right, there are Nazis. Lots of Nazis.  The game is also playable on the Wolfenstein 3D Facebook page, where it really stands out. As a founding game in the genre that…

From the “Awesome things Japan has made” department comes another demonstration of robotic expertise. Today’s feature is a working, miniature transformer: Video [Via Reddit]

If you know your science fiction, you know of Ender’s Game (and if you haven’t read it, you should). What you may not know is that Ender’s Game is being adapted into a film written and directed by Gavin Hood (of Tsotsi and X-Men Origins: Wolverine). The team has been keeping some good notes on the progress of the film, posting production stills, props and set shots. In the most recent post, they took a more interactive turn: “I need you to be clever, Bean.  I need you to think of solutions to problems we haven’t seen yet.” In Dragon Army,…

Cinemablend‘s Pete Haas has reported that Assassin’s Creed 3, set during the American Revolution, will deal with slavery. Matt Turner, the game’s lead writer spoke about the subject saying: It’s something we’ve been very aware of. We feel that kind of a subject deserves a certain amount attention because it’s so serious and it needs to be treated with utmost respect. We’re definitely not going to shy away from it in terms of not showing it.”  Video games are often not taken seriously because of their difficulty with dealing with “serious” topics seriously. There are a few examples of particularly sensitive…

Ever wondered what consoles look like before they come out? A user over at Reddit posted a few pictures of development kits for the PS2, GameCube, Xbox and Dreamcast: My how much they..er..shrunk. [Via Reddit]

If you’ve seen the comic-book film The Avengers, you know that its military presence is perplexingly slight. There are a couple jets, a few weapons here and there. The truth is that the U.S. military was (somewhat surprisingly) uneasy about being involved in the project. Well, that’s strange: They were featured in both Iron Man films; weapon development and dealing was central to the plot of Iron Man 2. As Wired‘s Spencer Ackerman reports, the military found the premise of The Avengers too unrealistic for its involvement. Phil Strub, the Defense Department’s Hollywood liaison, said: “We couldn’t reconcile the unreality of this international organization and…

It’s been a while. Let’s see if I still remember how to do this: – Rovio, the studio behind a little game called Angry Birds has announced their earnings. All 106 million dollars of them. – Microsoft has announced a new deal for anyone still looking for an Xbox 360. For 99 dollars you get a 360 with Kinect as long as you sign up for 2 years of Xbox Live. One more catch: the deal is only available through physical Microsoft stores. – George Lucas recently acquired the Star Wars 1313 trademark, presumably with plans to make another Star Wars game.…