​If Only The Phantom Menace‘s Galactic Senators Weren’t Incompetent

For all their posturing and pronouncements and cool floating podiums, it sure can be hard to take Star Wars‘ Galactic Senate seriously. The latest video from How It Should Have Ended tackles The Phantom Menace, and scores some fair—if fairly easy—points. Is the horse dead? Yeah, probably. Is it still worth kicking it around from…

Leave Flappy Bird’s Creator Alone

Flappy Bird has come out of nowhere to be one of the biggest mobile gaming hitsof our age. That kind of instant success is normally cause for celebration, but when you consider all the attention he’s suddenly getting, spare a thought for the game’s developer, Dong Nguyen. He’s taken to Twitter today to say “Please…

Your PC Must Be This Tall To Play Titanfall: Today Respawn’s Vince Zampella tweeted the minimum PC specs for the game: 64-bit Windows 7/8/8.1, AMD Athlon X2 2.8GHz or Intel Core 2 Duo 2.4GHz processor, 4GB RAM, Radeon HD 4770 or GeForce 8800GT GPU with 512MB VRAM.

Lana. Lana. LANAAAAAA: Check out this A-Z guide by Vulture of all the great running jokes and gags in Archer. My favorite would have to be the yuuuups and noooopes—what about you?

YouTube Arguments Sound Absurd When Re-enacted By Grown Men

Okay, the fact that YouTube comments can be the worst is no secret. But few things highlight this fact as well as the excellent series by Dead Parrot does—re-enacting the not-so-intellectual conversation using two dramatic actors is hilarious. This time around, you’ll find the commenters quoted ponder important questions like: can one be racist toward…

​Finally, the Chance to Steal Test Answers Off a Dolphin

Dolphins are the nerds of the undersea world. They always study for tests. In a new virtual reality game, you’re a human exchange student who hasn’t prepared. So you’re going to have to cheat off those uppity bottle-nosed mammals. Don’t get caught or their squealing will make your ears bleed. So long and thanks for…

​Nintendo Wants Their Platforms To Be More Like iOS

Nintendo’s fighting on two fronts. The first, very real battleground they’re waging war on is in retail, where their Wii U home console is struggling to build a user base. The second area of struggle has been in the hearts and minds of observers trying to decide how much faith to put into the company’s…

Quick, How Do You Pronounce Imgur, the Site With All the .Gifs?

Well here’s something. I’ve been mentally mispronouncing Imgur, the ubiquitous home to image macros, rage comics, memes and that other thing I’ve been mispronouncing forever, .gifs. Turns out Imgur is pronounced “Imager.” (I’d been doing it phonetically: im-GURRRRRR) Thank goodness I had no occasion to say it out loud. But if people aren’t saying “Did…

Metal Gear Solid: Ground Zeroes Is Short. Really Short.

The prologue to Metal Gear Solid V comes out next month, and if you’re expecting a nice chunk of Snake’s story to keep you occupied until the full game is done, you should probably know that it’s short. Really short. Game Informer got their hands on a near-final build of Metal Gear Solid: Ground Zeroes…

A Mech Game Straight Out Of The ’90s

Nostalgia is a weird beast — one that bubbles up and gets excited for the most random things. If this trailer is any indication, Matador is giving my inner PC gaming child a run for its money. Matador has a lot of things going for it: The isometric angle, the fact that it’s chock full…

Not All Kids Think Video Games Are Good For You

Now that YouTuber Game Dave and his army of young, free-spelling youngsters have weighed in on the console war, it’s time to tackle a tougher issue — are video games bad for you? Yes. Also, no. Maybe? I’d giggle at the hysterical spelling errors of children under 10, but some of these look an awful…

Humble Sid Meier Bundle, Cheaper Carbonation, Spaceballs, SSDs [Deals]

The latest Humble Bundle includes Sid Meier’s Civilization III Complete, Sid Meier’s Civilization IV: The Complete Edition, Sid Meier’s Ace Patrol, Sid Meier’s Ace Patrol: Pacific Skies and Sid Meier’s Railroads!. Customers who pay more than the average price will also receive Sid Meier’s Civilization V and Sid Meier’s Civilization V: Gods and Kings expansion…

Four Gadgets Predicted By Star Trek That Are Now Real

We might not have Jetsons-style mass-produced hovercars, but when you look at some of the tech humanity has developed, you could say we’re kind of living in the future. So to speak. And Star Trek, as great sci-fi tends to do, predicted some of that ‘future’—some of the gizmos presented in the show are now…

Team-based tactics in a Captain America video game? Here’s our first look at the official video game tie-in for Captain America: The Winter Soldier from Gameloft. It’s a mix of action and tactics, and will feature multiplayer clans. Weird. Look for it on iOS and Android next month.

Someone Made A (Mostly) Functional Kerbal Space Program Transformer

Sure, this Starscream-inspired transformer definitely looks a little bit shaky, but that’s how all great inventions start out. It takes a while to get from biplanes to sentient fighter jets, but we’re getting there! If you’re at all familiar with Kerbal Space Program, you know that it’s no easy task just to get a basic…

Superman’s New Look to Come From One of Marvel Comics’ Biggest Artists

A legendary artist with killer runs on Spider-Man, Punisher and X-Men will reportedly be drawing the Man of Steel this year. According to comic-book rumor site Bleeding Cool, DC Comics’ flagship superhero will be getting a new interpretation from John Romita, Jr., the second-generation creator whose family name is synonymous with rival publisher Marvel. Romita…