Far Cry 4‘s box art depicts a man wearing a lavish pink suit using what might be a religious statue as a throne. He has blonde hair and fair skin and his hand rests on the head of a man of color who kneels, passively, clutching a grenade in his hands. It’s caused quite a…
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…
Left 4 Dead is being released as an arcade game in Japan. None of the eight existing characters, however, are making the trip (despite featuring in the local releases of the console titles). Instead, publishers Taito have swapped in an all-new cast. We saw (and heard) them in action in some grainy footage from last…
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…
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…
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
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…
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…
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…
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…
Hello Internet! Welcome to Ask Dr. NerdLove, the only dating advice column written entirely with a Valyrian steel pen. This week, we’re handling the emotional dark side of dating – how to handle things when jealousy, bitterness, resentment and fear are getting the best of you and slowing your progress. Is it better to confront…
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]
The German version of Wolfenstein is a little different from the version of Wolfenstein most of us will get to play. The shooty bits will remain the same for everyone, of course, as you can see in this Eurogamer video. But Nazi imagery and mentions have been replaced with other stuff, if not outright removed.…
Epic Games just released a new tech demo of sorts for Unreal Engine 4. There’s something different about this compared to the usualvisual splendor of most of Epic’s Unreal showcases, however. Something much more…flappy. That’s right: Epic Games, the studio behind juggernaut titles like Gears of War and Unreal made a Flappy Bird clone. It’s…
There’s Donkey Kong in this video. Zaxxon. Kuribo’s shoe. And is that a Castlevania reference? Check out bay area rapper Vocab Slick’s new video, “Somethin’ Slick'” and see how many nods to classic video games you can recognize. This is the explicit version of the song, mind you, so put on headphones in case anyone…
There’s this interesting Bethesda memo floating around. Maybe you’ve seen it on a fan-run gaming site or your favorite message board. It’s all very exciting. In the memo, which started circulating last week, a reputed Bethesda executive writes to employees about exciting upcoming games like “Fallout 4” and “Elder Scrolls VI.” The executive also drops…
Amazon is continuing its assault on your Android device with $10 in free Coins for downloading five free apps. Whether you keep the apps or not is irrelevant; the $10 is yours to use as you see fit on the Amazon App Store. If you haven’t yet downloaded GTA: San Andreas from Amazon, they’re still…
Not just one old person. A few of them. Not just one shade of brown person but lighter and darker tones. Not just able-bodied people. People in wheelchairs, too. A whole new crop of character models are coming to SpyParty and, when it eventually comes out, the cat-and-mouse game might wind up looking more like…
The fourth episode of The Wolf Among Us comes out on May 27th, developer Telltale Games just announced. It’s called “In Sheep’s Clothing,” and it’s the penultimate episode. The season started to get really good in the last episode, so let’s hope that it stays that way!
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