Dear Esther not funny enough for you? Try Dear Esteban instead (via Eurogamer).
Here’s Microsoft’s Black Friday sales list for Xbox Live. Yes, Games on Demand games are still too damn expensive.
I’ve spent the day playing a very early beta build of The Banner Saga, an upcoming indie turn-based strategy game. Obviously plenty of the game wasn’t working, but I can tell you about the bits that were. In terms of presentation and design, it’s a very simple game. So simple that you should consider it…
That up there isn’t some joke image someone tossed up on Tumblr. It’s a real photo, taken from the Library of Congress’ video game collection, and it features vintage strategy guides, rebound and preserved for the ages. The image was taken from a recent in-house interview held on the Library’s site, which goes into detail…
And you don’t even need a Windows tablet, phone or laptop to do it. Designer Evan Roth has made this deck of cards called Solitaire.exe, which recreate the famous Windows 98 deck of cards for use in the real world. The cards should recreate everything short of the chaotic victory screen, but then, you can…
William Wu is a concept artist, formerly of Ubisoft, who spent two years of his life drawing fantastic images of colonial America for the just-released Assassin’s Creed III Prior to his work at Ubisoft, Wu was employed at Intel, where he was involved in the ill-fated Project Offset. If you like what you see, you…
Hitman: Absolution’s “Saints”, a troupe of stripper nuns, aren’t actually in the game for long, but they’ll forever live in infamy for their appearance in a rather silly pre-release trailer for the game But hey, who were gamers to criticise the clip, when so few of us were actually strippers! For all we know, it…
Grand Theft Auto IV was released on PC, but when Grand Theft Auto V was announced, a personal computer version was nowhere to be seen. It’s still nowhere to be seen, but Rockstar is at least talking about it, Dan Houser telling IGN that “Everything else is up for consideration. That’s all I can give…
Yesterday, a user on NeoGAF had a weird experience when he was able to access what looked like a debug menu for Nintendo’s new Miiverse service. Completely by accident. As he poked around and found he couldn’t do much of anything, theories arose that he’d simply accessed a dummy or shell menu, which have been…
Microsoft very quietly announced a new Xbox Live Arcade game today called Karaoke. On the surface, it sounds rather harmless; partnering with The Karaoke Channel, it lets users stream around 8000 songs from a central library, and you can use SmartGlass to queue up tracks and save a favourites list. The weirdness comes in when…
The pre-release hype from outlets like GameStop led most people to believe that the Wii U was a launch-day sellout. And hey, for some retailers, it probably was. But that doesn’t mean the new console is sold out At time of posting, late on Monday night, there are nationwide retailers in the United States with…
Okan Kaya, an Australian sales manager from Sydney, has set a new world record for the longest consecutive gaming session, racking up 122 hours playing the recently-released Black Ops II It’s a feat with a disclaimer, though: as Wired reports, he didn’t really play for 122 hours in a row. Because the human body would,…
My copy of Skyrim would usually fall over once I started running more than, say, 8-10 mods at once. So I’ve got no idea how modder Unreal has managed to get around 100 mods running at once. I’m just going to assume sorcery His site catalogues the adventures his rig is taking running that much…
When Microsoft first announced its Smartglass technology at E3, I figured it would end up like the console’s video marketplace, or Facebook application. A neat idea for the guys in marketing, but wholly uninteresting for the average user. A few weeks in and I’m glad I’ve been proven wrong. I’ve got the app installed on…
Now that the world has moved on from making giant sharks float around by the magic of fancy air, we can move onto more interesting things like Portal personality cores. Thinkgeek are selling two variants of the item you see above, Wheatley or Space, for $20 each. Sadly, they’re not remote-controlled. They’re basically glorified balloons.…
GLUED is a short film released earlier this year by a team of students at Bezalel Academy of the Arts. It’s all about the problems a mother faces trying to deal with her young son, who is so addicted to video games it’s insane. The film, which took ten months to create, was the first…
Seventy hours. Two hundred pieces of glass. 250 feet of copper. An estimated one million colours. That’s the work that went into this Halo stained-glass window, and it was totally worth it. Not sure if the medium was intentional given the religious overtones of the series’ theme song, but that’s exactly why this works. 70…
Seeing as many of the third-party launch games on Wii U are already out on the PS3 and/or 360, those games are going to have to do one of two things. Or maybe even both of them. Those games are going to need to make real good use of the Wii U controller, and they’re…
I’m playing Assassin’s Creed: Revelations on PC right now, actually (as a refresher), and even a year on I’m shocked by how much better it looks than the console versions. Even though I shouldn’t be. The cleaner models are nice, sure, but it’s the draw distance that really sets the PC version apart. So I’ve…
I’m not a fan of furries. I just… the concept itself doesn’t concern me. It’s more the execution. All those big eyes, and weird proportions. Too weird. It’s slightly less weird, though, when you combine it with some awesome Skyrim armour. Then look at it in a gallery where it’s joined by Mega Man, Link,…
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