Hell Yeah! Wrath of the Dead Rabbit is the video game your grandmother hates. A weird postmodern jumble of gratuitous gore, gaudy colors and vulgar creatures. Here a robot-legged panda will shoot at you with bouncing tic-tac-shaped lasers, as elsewhere a huge Spartan-masked scorpion spews waves of neon-bordered playing cards from its stinger. In this 2D platformer, your victims—98 more abominations like the ones above—must pay the price for having enjoyed humiliating photos of you in the bathtub. Anything goes.

Have you ever wondered who would win the fight between a giraffe and a cheetah? Or between a panda and a kangaroo?  These questions have haunted human kind for centuries and have fed fierce debates through long nights. But fear not, my friends, for the answers are on their way. Fear not, for Tokyo Jungle is coming on the PSN.

Sometimes I suspect that game designers don’t have a lot of respect for me. Though they’ve never met me, I think they tend to assume I’m not a very smart person, and that I’m insecure about it. I feel vaguely uneasy when I breeze through a level and I’m profusely congratulated with items and experience points. The rewards feel hollow. Did I even really earn them? If that last section wasn’t challenging, do I need or want them? A lot of modern game design is focused on accommodating the player: Scale the difficulty; make every play style equally viable in every situation; don’t punish failure.

COLOGNE, Germany -- The Witcher 2, distributed in North America by Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment, was the most awarded game during the European Games Awards ceremony at Gamescom 2012. CD Projekt RED, developers of The Witcher 2, started off this year’s Gamescom with a bang, dominating the European Games Awards and then following up with a well-received presentation of the REDkit, the mod engine for their award-winning RPG.

The term “browser-based game” is not one that typically sits well with gamers. It brings up the repressed fact that there are tons of ignored invites on your Facebook asking you to help plant crops on Farmville, or go hold up a bank in Mafia Wars, or guide a football into the endzone in Return Man. But there is the occasional diamond in the rough, and Drakensang Online certainly shines in comparison to other games you typically play on Chrome, Firefox, or even (*shudders*) Explorer.

Welcome back to your favorite Steam Summer Sale updates and recommendations. In personal news, I just got an email from my aunt saying she sent me a Gamestop gift certificate for my birthday, which is on Monday. I mean literally, she couldn’t have picked a worse time, right as the Steam Summer Sale has gotten started. Oh well, maybe I’ll get a bit of cash to help out the cause. Anyway, today is Saturday, so let’s look at some of today’s deals and bundles that you should take advantage of…