This Week In The Business: Free-To-Start

QUOTE | “As we look to the future, we believe a very big part of our player base will expect a free-to-start experience.” – EA CEO Andrew Wilson, talking about how EA is considering ways to let people try games for free with a variety of business models Elsewhere in the business of video games…

Portal 2 Mod Looks Slick Enough To Be A Valve Game

Portal Stories: Mel, an upcomingmod for Portal 2, is starting to less like a mod in this new trailer, and more like a straight-up official Valve entry in the series. OK, so we can’t speak for Mel’s sense of humour, but everything else about it looks shockingly professional, from the detail (and unique design) in…

Game Where You Build Stupid Shit But It Actually Works

Besiege is a devilishly simple, physics-based building game. You can create machines of destruction with ease. For a game in Alpha, it’s surprising how polished Besiege feels. I was creating absurd death machines within a few of minutes. Sure, some of them weren’t exactly structurally sound, often resulting in a horrid crumpled mess, but the…

That Time A Video Game Changed The Way I Walked

It’s strange to remember just how easily influenced I was. Embarrassing to admit just how obsessively I was able to actually love one. single. video game. But to be fair, I was only ten years old at the time. I played a lot of games at that age. Mostly on my Amiga 500. Games like…

Mean Girls Video Game Alert

It’s been a while since we lastgot a Mean Girls game, so let’s get another Mean Girls game. Sadly, there is not a Lindsay Lohan to be found, but what can be found is a faithful recreation of the film’s story and themes, with high school hostility replaced by….wait, a tower defence game? What is…

It’s Good That Fantastic Four Doesn’t Look Like Marvel’s Other Movies

Marvel Comics’ first modern superhero success has been made into some very bad movies. The one coming up this summer has the chance to be much better, mostly by looking nothing like the comics it came from. There’s been a lot of discussion about the teaser for director Josh Trank’s filmic reboot of the Fantastic…

How To Deliver A Gas Tanker Like A Winner

In Highlight Reel today we have a load of Dying Light clips, some explosive gas tankers in GTA V, parachute skateboarding action in H1z1 and more! Watch the video above, then link any of your favorite highlights in the comments, and be sure to check out, like and subscribe the original videos via the links…

AMD Taunts Nvidia Over Latest Graphics Card Controversy

Of the few remaining Video Game Brand Battles, the AMD vs. Nvidia fight might be my favorite. The two graphics companies often take small swipes at each other, and usually with less restraint than console or game manufacturers. The latest shot comes from AMD, in an update they posted to Facebook (via NeoGAF): 970 minutes…

Everything You Know About Nacho Cheese Is Wrong

Here’s a simple question. Do you know what nacho cheese is? As it turns out, whatever it is that you use to define “nacho cheese” is probably wrong. Yesterday, Bloomberg published a mind-blowing article about the nature of nacho cheese. Get this: nobody, not even the people who make nacho-flavored things, or people who make…

Worth Reading: Dragon Age Heartbreak, The Death Of Madden, And More

The Super Bowl is almost here, which means it’s time to pretend you care about football! Being a Bears fan, I’m all about whatever makes people the unhappiest, since my team isn’t playing for. Do I actually have to root for the Patriots? I might be sick. I need something else to keep my mind…

Law and Order: SVU is doing another ripped-from-the-headlines episode that touches on video games, this one focused on a female game developer determined to release her creation amidst a storm of online harassment.

2014’s Best Games On Sale, Faster Xbox Load Times, and More Deals

C atch up on some of the big games you missed last year with Greenman Gaming’s 2014 Revisited sale. Note that the promo code takes an extra 20% off the advertised deal prices. Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel ($24) | Green Man Gaming | Promo code 20PERO-FFDIGI-GAMESX Alien: Isolation ($20) | Green Man Gaming | Promo code…