To be clear, for those who make decisions based solely on video thumbnails Instagram is not coming to Steam. But boy, it’d be pretty funny if it did. Instagram for Steam announcement [SpookyFries69]
It’s easy to have lost sight of it amongst the more contemporary series flying off to new owners today, but for me, one of the most important prizes up for grabs in the great THQ auction was the fate of the Homeworld series, which even ten years since its last release remains one of the…
Set against the backdrop of a prank call by Earles & Jensen, this video by Jim Dirschberger and Travis Millard is great. And gives me the sudden urge to open a phone book and start calling every EB Games in the country. Gamemasters [EightyFourFilms, via Laughing Squid]
For all intents it happened late last year, but today the results of an auction called it: THQ, formerly one of the biggest video game publishers in the world, is no more. It’s been a hell of a ride. While technically first formed in 1989 as Trinity Acquisition Corporation, THQ began business proper in 1990,…
Last March, we gave you an early look at how the PlayStation 4—code-named Orbis—was shaping up. Nearly a year later, we’re about to bring you a clearer, more timely update, including new technical specs and information on an upgrade to Sony’s traditional controller design. The information you’re about to read comes from official Orbis documentation,…
Yeah, it’s a “runner” game. You control a character that’s perpetually moving forward, and all you have to do is move them left to right and sometimes roll or jump as well. And yeah, it’s a “freemium” game, something I will likely never really embrace. But man, I’m enjoying Subway Surfers all the same. The…
This sounds about as fun as being stuck in an endless loop of rainy Monday mornings, but there’s at least merit in the idea: Endless Boss Fight is a game that is, quite literally, an endless boss fight. Taking the “go as far as you can” ethos of running games like Canabalt somewhere a little…
On February 7 at the Dernier Bar Avant la Fin du Monde in Paris, France, EA and Geek-Art will be putting on a show to promote Dead Space 3. Because when I think co-op space shooting in the dark, I think of Paris, and paintings. For those of us nowhere near the city of love,…
Reader Brandon passed this video along yesterday, which he helped make, wondering if we’d ever seen it. I had to say “no”, which tore me up inside, because it is absolutely perfect. Sadly ineligible from winning a Saxxy award due to its use of copyright material, that won’t stop it winning hearts here today, because…
Cult game, attractive (and scantily-clad) protagonist, you’d have bet the house on someone coming out with an official Lollipop Chainsaw figure. And, eventually, someone has. Though they really shouldn’t have bothered. Unknown Japanese company World Scope, perhaps explaining why they’re unknown, are behind this official Juliet Starling piece that looks like something you’d expect with…
Bogdan Gabelko is a 3D artist who has worked for companies like Crytek. You may have seen his work before, like the Cammy piece we featured in 2011 He’s now working at Blizzard. Lucky dog. You can see more of Bogdan’s work at his CGHub and DeviantArt pages. To see the larger pics in all…
If you’ve got the room (and love for Star Wars) to spare, Major League Mods are selling these custom Xbox 360 consoles that stick one of Microsoft’s machines inside a model of R2-D2. It’s not cheap—like, it’s $1300 ($1000 if you provide the Xbox)—but hey, console centrepiece showcases don’t come cheap. For something a little…
Combining the hipster appeal of an original Game Boy with the practicality of, well, a ton of other Nintendo systems, the Gameboo is a hacked handheld that lets users play games—via emulation—from platforms like the Game Boy Advance, SNES, NES, Neo Geo and of course the Game Boy itself. While the case is original, almost…
If you like beautiful things, you’re probably getting ready to sit down and play Level-5 and Studio Ghibli’s Ni No Kuni. Before you fire that baby up for the first time, though, you have a very important thing to decide. What language you’ll be playing the game in. I know Chris and especially Jason have…
The image above is of a French soldier currently on active duty in Mali. He’s wearing a mask that looks like the one a character from Call of Duty wears. This is, somehow, cause for enough indignation that the French military and government have opened an investigation into what they call “unacceptable” behaviour. Wow. The…
The Half-Life 2 Cinematic Mod has been around forever, and in that time has proven fairly divisive. Sure, it adds some lovely effects to the game, but it also makes so many changes that some feel it loses a little of Valve’s original vision for City 17 and its surrounding countryside. The “improved” character models…
Artist Tom Kyster wanted to paint a picture of Skyward Sword’s Silent Realm Guardians for a recent Zelda art show. Sadly, he missed the deadline. Happily, he finished the piece anyway and sent it over, because it’s pretty damn good. You can see more of Tom’s art at his personal site and blog
The Obama administration has a lot of important things to do. Weighed against acts of governing the world’s sole superpower, the Devil May Cry series is not important, no matter what some crazy fans might argue. Don’t tell that to the creators of this petition on the White House’s official site, though, who plead with…
The marketing for Alice: Madness Returns was dark. The game itself, though, was mostly just strange, with a dash of quaint. Why the disconnect? Well, according to the series’ creator American McGee, it’s all EA’s fault. In a Reddit AMA thread yesterday, McGee says that while Shy The Sun (a creative company brought in to…
Wanting to engage in the most literal type of role-playing there is, a woman has posted an ad on Craigslist seeking “2 or 3 women for Star Trek roleplaying”. The fact it has to end with the line “Nothing weird is going to happen” hints that, yeah, maybe some weird stuff is going to happen.…
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