Dirty secret: I can count the number of games I’ve actually finished on one hand. Okay, I might need a toe or two, but still. This is for a lot of reasons. One, a lot of the games I put serious hours into (sports games, I’m looking at you) are fairly open-ended. Two, who is a game developer to tell you when you’re done with a game? To me, playing a game is like eating a pizza. You don’t need to eat an entire pizza to have enjoyed a pizza. It’s a similar question that Tim Parks of New York…

The world is a weird place these days. Up is down, left is right, cats and dogs are now living together in peace. So crazy! Also, Ghostbusters was on the TV of the place we ate at yesterday. Anyways, The Escapist reports that Daniel Kim, CEO of Nexon, is calling for all games to be free. Mainly, he is calling for all games to be free because his company makes free games. Take it away, Daniel: “If your mind is just set on keeping the current model of buy a game for $60, play for 40 hours, buy another game…

Get More: French Montana, Choppa, Choppa Down, Music, More Music Videos This is the best video that you’re going to see on the internet all day. Rappers Waka Flocka Flame and French Montana go in full Modern Warfare mode and rescue a Barack Obama impersonator from some bad guys. There are no words, only gun sounds. [via illroots]

Saying there’s a bit of chatter about Mass Effect 3 on the internet is like saying there’s a bit of fur on Sasquatch’s body, or a bit of rapping on a Rick Ross album. A lot of people are on the fence about the game’s ending, but Tim Clark at Computers and Videogames is serving as the voice of reason: Unless you’re prepared to really rinse the multiplayer and scanning system then chances are your ending in Mass Effect 3 is going to be partial and ambiguous too. That’s something to embrace, not go nuts about. Or to put it…

The Wall Street Journal recently ran a piece on what inspires creativity. The secret? Distraction. Although we live in an age that worships focus—we are always forcing ourselves to concentrate, chugging caffeine—this approach can inhibit the imagination. We might be focused, but we’re probably focused on the wrong answer. And this is why relaxation helps: It isn’t until we’re soothed in the shower or distracted by the stand-up comic that we’re able to turn the spotlight of attention inward, eavesdropping on all those random associations unfolding in the far reaches of the brain’s right hemisphere. When we need an insight,…

You know Kanye West, right? And you know the Kanye/Jay-Z song “N—gas in Paris, where Kanye keeps chanting, “Don’t let me get into my zone,” right?” Well, in what is perhaps the greatest achievement in stupid flash games, someone has made an interactive visual recreation of that line. The game is simple: There is a zone. Kanye must not get in the zone. If he does, terrible things happen, like you might have to start the game over. It’s a pretty amazing time-suck. Play it at the game’s official site, KANYEZONE.COM. -Drew Millard

Rock Paper Shotgun reports that GAME, the leading games retailer in the UK, is going under. What does this mean for the UK gaming industry? Take it away, RPS: Without GAME, supermarkets will perhaps become the de facto leading games retailers – and thus far they have seem uninterested in stocking anything except the most surefire of hits. Sure, GAME was an increasingly disappointing source of lesser-known titles already, but Tescos, Asdas et al are unlikely to stock anything much smaller than a Call of Duty or Mass Effect. Again, not really an issue for PC gaming in 2012, but…