There is a niche market for augmented reality shooting games on mobile devices. These games use a smartphone’s camera and accompanying software to bring actual gameplay into the real world. In an attempt to make this experience more enjoyable, a company called Metal Compass is releasing a peripheral for smartphones called the XAPPR gun.

European gamers won’t be able to launch nukes or throw flaming chainsaws in Twisted Metal on February 14. Eat Sleep Play co-founder David Jaffe confirmed on NeoGAF the localization process is taking longer than expected in Europe. A new release date hasn’t been set, but Jaffe heard Twisted Metal might be available in Europe on more »

Are you up for a free game? PopCap and Starbucks has you covered this week. Participating Starbucks locations have chosen Bejeweled as its Pick of the Week. That means you can pick up a free Pick of the Week card at Starbucks that contains a download code for Bejeweled. You don’t even have to purchase more »

Xbox Live Gold access has already been granted to everyone until February 5, but we won’t have to wait too long before free Gold access will become available again. The Mass Effect 3 demo, which will be released on February 14, will unlock Xbox Live Gold until the full game launches on March 6.

Believe it or not, there is still plenty of new Team Fortress 2 content in the works. Valve has something super secret up its sleeve and it doesn’t have anything to do with hats or maps. TF2 is already free-to-play, so whatever Valve is doing may turn out to be pretty significant.

The mystery that is Lollipop Chainsaw is slowly being revealed, though really there isn’t too much to keep secret about a zombie beat’em up starring a former cheerleader. Still, as the release window draws near, Warner Bros. Interactive, Kadokawa Games and Grasshopper Manufacture have decided to get people excited by announcing three pre-order promotions for more »

Your quest isn’t over yet, Skylanders fantatics. Activision has set before you a new task. It is one that will require you to visit many stores and spend lots of money so that the brave warriors Cynder, Double Trouble and Slam Bam may once again join the fight against Kaos in the Skylands. In short, more »

Sometimes videogame publishers tend to gravitate towards a certain console when promoting multiplatform games. Activision for example clearly favors the Xbox 360 with its Call of Duty games, and Ubisoft gives the PS3 a slight advantage with the Assassin’s Creed franchise. For Resident Evil 6, Capcom will show special attention to the Xbox 360 crowd.

Syndicate will not require EA’s Online Pass when it is released. This is somewhat unusual since EA tends to tie its Online Pass into its multiplayer (and single-player) games. With Syndicate, EA Partners wants everyone to experience Syndicate‘s cooperative multiplayer mode regardless of whether they purchase the game new or used.

The latest patch for Skyrim is out of voluntary beta and is ready for mass distribution. Bethesda released the version 1.4 update of Skyrim on Steam and it brings a lot of improvements. I really mean that. Bethesda squashed a large number of bugs and patched up just as many quest glitches. As usual, Bethesda released more »