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How To Make Peggle A Lot Worse [Update]

There used to be a cool Peggle game on the New Zealand App Store. The same Peggle you could get everywhere else in the world. That game is now gone. In its place is a new Peggle game that is just the worst. Yes, the old Peggle – the one you paid money for then…

Your Childhood Coloring Books, Now With Nightmares

You can mutilate any innocent coloring book, with the right artistic inspiration. r/coloringcorruptions is a community dedicated to coloring books that they’ve taken and transformed into disturbing scenes with a few alterations. According to The Daily Dot, the inspiration came from one Redditor named CrayonsForBrains, who had a particularly deranged-looking coloring book. CrayonsForBrains couldn’t help…

Amplitude Pulls Off Mighty Kickstarter Comeback

For a while there, it looked like the Kickstarter campaign to revive Harmonix’s much-loved music game Amplitude wasn’t gonna make it to its $775,000 goal. But with a ton of Twitter shouting, a telethon, and some very generous backers, they’ve passed the mark with just 21 hours to go. Yesterday, the campaign was still more…

Multiplayer Watch Dogs Looks Like GTA Online Plus Hackers

Ubisoft recently had a press event for Watch Dogs and invited YouTubers to get hands on the game. The “Capture the File” multiplayer mode looks like it mixes all the madness of a GTA Online deathmatch with magic hacking superpowers. Check out the video above to see the game in action. It looks like a…

Former Games Journo Writing New Star Wars Movie

Disney aren’t just going to squeeze millions from a new trilogy of Star Wars movies. They’re going to make stand-alone flicks too, and the first of those is due for release in December 2016. There are no details on what it actually is, but we do now know who’s behind it. Directing will be Gareth…

Space 2.0: The initially promising-looking but unfortunately flawed space sim X Rebirth gets a sizable update this week that developer Egosoft claims will address a lot of the game’s issues. This video touts a few of those improvements, and you can download a PDF of all the changes here

People Used To Think Chess Would Ruin Everything

You know how it goes: something new comes along, and catches everyone’s attention. Immediately, people think the new thing will corrupt society and make everything worse: this has been true for everything from books to video games. And yes, it also holds true for chess. Chess! A thing we largely consider to be an intellectual…

1980’s Newscasters Struggled To Explain How Pac-Man Works

Pac-Man turns 34 today. It’s exciting to see that the little yellow guy has survived into middle age. But before the Pac became the dot-eating legend we know him as today, he had to do the same thing every celebrity does: make a name for himself. To commemorate Pac-Man’s birthday, popular video game personality Patrick…

​Jennifer Aniston’s Greatest Gaming Moment

Remember the 1990s? It was a wonderful time, a time when Microsoft would pay Jennifer Aniston to beat a child actor at video games, all in the service of helping explain how to use Windows 95. We’ve actually written about this video before, in which Jennifer Aniston and Matthew Perry, high on Friends fame, signed…

Wolfenstein Has A Cool Little Fallout Easter Egg

While there isn’t any official news about Fallout 4 just yet, Bethesda-published Wolfenstein: The New Order does give a quick nod to everyone’s favorite vault-dwelling franchise. Obviously, if you’d rather not have the location of the easter egg spoiled, you probably shouldn’t watch this video by xReignMan40x! Vault 101 is, as some of you might…

Everything Is Wrong With Snow White & The Huntsman

There are a lot of things wrong with Snow White & The Huntsman — like how Kristen Stewart is imprisoned for years and then suddenly armors up and leads a battle — but the greatest sin is probably wasting an appearance by Nick Frost. Everything Wrong With Snow White & The Huntsman [CinemaSins]