Minecraft Creator Debuts His Latest Creation, Cliffhorse

Technically his first commercial game since Minecraft took the world by storm, Markus “Notch” Persson’s Cliffhorse puts players in control of a horse near some cliffs. Well, hills mostly, but Hillhorse sounds silly. In fact the whole thing is a bit silly, just a bit of fluff tossed together in the Unity engine and announced…

I Will Buy Any Starship Lance Henriksen Wants To Sell Me

The commercial for Star Citizen’s MISC Freelancer may be fake, but the desire to buy is quite real, thanks to the reassuringly gravelly narration of Aliens actor Lance Henriksen. If I had a spare $125 to $180 to pledge towards a virtual ship, the Freelancer is the one I’d pledge it to. It’s dependable and…

Ahead of an official Playstation 4/Vita bundle rumored to be announced at E3, Best Buy is selling the Playstation 4 together with the Borderlands 2 Limited Edition Vita Bundle for $560– a savings of $40 compared to buying both separately. [Best Buy] This post is brought to you by the Commerce Team, a dedicated group…

Honest Game Trailers Vs. Mortal Kombat. Ready, Fight!

While I’d rather watch a documentary that followed the fabled fighting franchise from birth, through its awkward teenage years into adulthood, Smosh‘s Honest Game Trailer for Mortal Kombat will do in a pinch. With a new Mortal Kombat recently announced for 2015, now’s the perfect time to look back on a series that started strong,…

Sunday Deals: $40 Playstation Plus, Playstation 4, More (Updating)

Don’t let it being Sunday or being the day before E3 stop you from saving some money. Today you could get a Playstation 4, Sony Gold Headset, a year of Plus, and Second Son limited edition for $530 shipped using the deals below. Update: Ahead of an official Playstation 4/Vita bundle rumored to be announced…

The Original Bird Dating Sim Is Getting An English Remake

Hatoful Boyfriend is a Japanese dating sim that replaces the usual array of sexy anime characters with pictures of birds. Devolver Digital and Mediatonichave teamed up to official bring this wonderfully creepy thing to the Western world. Hatoful Boyfriend — literally ‘Pigeon-ful Boyfriend’ (thanks, AnimeNewsNetwork) — took the internet by storm in late 2011, capturing…

I Made A Game About E3… Kinda

E3 predictions are old hat. Everybody has done them every year since the beginning of time, since before hats were invented. Instead, I made a short, very personal game about being at E3, fears, and the dangers of cynicism in a text engine called Twine. Play it over at RPS (it’s the second entry).

The Transformers Slow Jam Is More Than Meets The Ears

Scott Bradlee and company have been slowly transforming my childhood cartoon memories into R&B slow jams for months. Speaking of slow Transformers… I actually heard this one last week, when Bradlee’s Saturday Morning Slow Jams album hit iTunes, but it’s so much better seeing it performed live. Part of me wishes they’d gone with the…

Technical issues killed today’s Saturday Morning Stream. If I can get them sorted out, we might have a Saturday Evening Stream this week instead. Or I might throw a gaming laptop out the window. One of those.

This Week In The Business: The PlayStation 4 Redemption

QUOTE | “PlayStation 4 was such a great redemption… making that platform such a success quite frankly contributed to me being more comfortable with getting on to the rest of my career.” – Former Sony Computer Entertainment head Jack Tretton, reflecting on his 19 years at Sony and his new role on the advisory board…