Gotta love the character selection screen in this Dark Souls–Mega Man crossover video by TerraMantis This could be the most difficult game in existence. And calling Gwyndolin “Woman Man”, that’s probably the best robot masters name yet. Legends of Lordran: Mega Man Edition [YouTube] To contact the author of this post, write to: [email protected]

Here’s What the New Mana Game Is About

Square Enix announced the latest Mana game yesterday with a trailer forRise of Mana. So what’s the game about? I mean, aside from a tree. The newly released trailer begins with the following narration: It was a place called “heaven” The side of light, Lasta, where the Great Tree grows, and the side of darkness,…

The Closest You Can Get To Storing A Pokémon In Your Pockets

Klefki, one of the newest Pokémon characters, is also one of the weirdest. It’s a set of keys, with an immunity to poison and dragon-type moves. You probably can’t open doors with it, but Tony Sarkees on Etsy is selling nickel-coated steel replicas of it. Much easier to put them in your pockets than a…

North Korea’s Central Zoo Now Has Dogs. Yes, Dogs.

The Bronx Zoo has Siberian tigers. The San Diego Zoo has pandas. The Central Zoo in Pyongyang now has Yorkshire terriers. That’s according to the Korean Central News Agency, North Korea’s state news agency. The following story appeared on KCNA’s site this week: And above are photos of said Yorkshire terriers. I guess they are…

Is Nippon Ichi Software announcing a new game? This teaser site, with a URL that seems to indicate such. Let the speculation begin!

The Hong Kong Massacre Is An Awesome Name For A Game

Max Payne borrowed its most flamboyant trademark, and Stranglehold tried to do it in 3D, but no game has really captured the fell of a good old-fashioned Hong Kong action movie shootout. Maybe The Hong Kong Massacre can change that. At first glance it looks very Hotline Miami, but get past that – and into…

You Should Pay Closer Attention To A Video Game’s Opening Credits

In case you ever wanted to know more about how a video game title sequence was put together, here’s a great interviewwith the three folks most responsible for The Last Of Us’ gross intro. You might think that all those swooshing cells and infection (see below) was done on a computer, but nope. Those are…

In Here, You Can Be A Monster, And Nobody Will Judge You

Gods Will Be Watching started outsmall, as a Ludum Dare project, a survival game taking place on a single screen. Its upcoming full release is a lot more ambitious. The full game will be a sci-fi point-and-click adventure that, rather than have you wandering around chatting to folks endlessly, drops you in a series of…

Paedophile Hoax Convinces People A Cartoon Cat Is A Perv

Motherboard has the interesting, if also slightly hilarious, storyof how Facebook fear-mongers and viral hoax merchants are spreading the tale of an iOS app that pervs on young kids. The app is called Talking Angela, and right now it’s on top of the App Store charts. There’s not much to it; you get a talking…

Disappointed by Fable III? Even series creator Peter Molyneux now admitsin an interview with Develop that “Fable III was a trainwreck”. It’s a good read if you want to see where it all went wrong.

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Gamers Get Pretty Gross Facebook Ads

If you have a Facebook profile, chances are good that you’ve populated it with some information about yourself. Like say, some of your favorite games—that way, anyone can look on your page and learn a little bit about you. It’s a useful feature, but it’s also used so that Facebook can spit more “relevant” ads…