Gifts For Someone Who Plays Board Games

Hopefully, there is a special someone (or at least a someone you’re obligated to buy holiday gifts for) in your life that is into board games. If so, don’t buy them board games! Buy them cool stuff that helps them store or organise their board games, they’ll like that better. Feldherr Storage Inserts & Bags…

Sleeping Dogs, Outlast Headline December’s Xbox Games With Gold

There are some pretty cool games in December’s Xbox Games with Gold. Paying subscribers to Xbox Live can grab four games for “free;” the two games for the Xbox 360 are backward compatible, so you can play them on your Xbox One as well. Remember, these are only free if you have an Xbox Live…

Season Three of Telltale’s The Walking Dead, titled “A New Frontier,” will premiere December 20th on all major platforms and mobile devices. A retail disc will be available February 7.

Japanese Twitch Streamer Briefly Interrupted By Earthquake

Yesterday’s 6.9 magnitude earthquake off Honshu island, Japan, sent waves as far as Tokyo, where it rocked a humble Twitch streamer playing Pokémon Kai Hamano, whose streams as Kaihama, was sorting through his inventory in the new Pokémon game when his bedroom started shaking. “What the fuck?” he asked his viewers. “Oh my god, it’s…

Lego Dimensions‘ Sonic Level Is A Mini Sonic Generations

Sonic the Hedgehog made his debut in Lego Dimensions last week with a level pack that sends Sega’s hero through several generations in a quest to find the Chaos Emeralds. We played through a bunch of it on Facebook yesterday. Want to see? The Sonic the Hedgehog level pack for Lego Dimensions comes packaged with…

Deus Ex Machina

Manuel Dischinger Moura is a concept artist who has worked on series like Batman and Gears of War You can see more of Manuel’s work at his ArtStation page To see the images in their native resolution, click on the “expand” button in the top-left corner. Fine Art is a celebration of the work of…

Steam Greenlight Game Evolution Will Mash Up Spore And No Man’s Sky

No Man’s Sky and Spore have a lot in common. Both were ambitious to a fault. They aimed for the stars, but fell well short of expectations. They also both hadplenty of dick aliens Evolution: The Ultimate Creative Sandbox recently got voted number one on Steam Greenlight, the service’s user-driven selection system for lesser-known games. Here’s…

Open-World Conan Survival Game Coming To Xbox One, PC Early Access In January

Funcom’s taking its Conan license to a much harsher environment next year with Conan Exiles, an open-world survival game that challnges players to tame a barbarian wasteland and uncover its secrets. Xbox One players will be able to get in on the action this spring via the preview program. I’m getting a very Ark: Survival…

Rare Pokémon Card Just Sold For $54,970

At an auction in Beverly Hills, a Pokémon Illustrator card fetched an eye-watering $54,970, setting a new record for Pokémon card prices. According to Barry Sandoval, Director of Operations for Comics at Heritage Auctions, a Pokémon Illustrator card went for around $23,000 during the early 2000s. As noted on Go Nintendo, this latest auction smashed…

People Are Finding Pokémon Sun And Moon Glitches, It Seems

Pokémon Sun and Moon hasn’t been out that long. Bugs and glitches pop up in previous Pokémon games, so they’re bound to be in Sun and Moon. These could be the first ones folks are finding. Note that while I do have a copy of the game, I haven’t been able to replicate these glitches.…

First Details On Hollywood’s Monster Hunter Movie 

You might know Paul W.S. Anderson as the guy who made the Mortal Kombat movie or the guy who makes the Resident Evil movies. Soon you’ll know him as the guy who makes the Monster Hunter movies. That’s right, Capcom is turning Monster Hunter into a feature film, and Anderson has the movie rights and…

In Japan, Pokémon Sun And Moon Didn’t Outsell Pokémon X/Y At Launch 

While Nintendo was ready for Pokémon Sun and Moon to hit historic sales figures, the company announced today that its numbers did not surpass Pokémon X and Y’s Japanese launch. Don’t worry, because Sun and Moon still did crazy good. Famitsu reports that in its first three days on sale, Pokémon Sun And Moon sold…

Dating 101

If you don’t like Yakuza games then…look, I don’t know how or where you can get the help that you need, I just know that you need it. This is Yakuza 0, a game that’s out in the West in January 2017 (it’s been out in Japan since 2015). Don’t let the fact that it’s…

Microsoft Apologizes For Perceived Racial Slur In Xbox Email

Earlier today, Microsoft sent out a promotional email for Dead Rising 4. The pitch was some zombies singing Christmas Carols, and the email had the subject line “NNNNGGGHHHAAAA”. The intent was obviously to put into text the kind of noise a zombie makes, but when you arrange those letters together and say them out loud,…

Someone Got Doom Running In The Macbook Pro’s Touch Bar

I get the fun of making Doom run on everything from a potato to a toaster, but come on. If you’re confused by my incredulation, then that’s because you haven’t seen Doom running in the not-even-a-thumbnail-wide touch bar that comes with the new Apple Macbook Pro laptops. This post originally appeared on Kotaku Australia, where…