One Of The World’s Greatest Actors Hated Working With George Lucas

Terence Stamp is one of our age’s great actors. The guy has been everyone from Dracula to General Zod, and been in everything from Young Guns to Halo 3 (he was the Prophet of Truth). One of his most notable roles in recent decades, though, was as Supreme Chancellor Valorum in Star Wars: Episode I.…

It’s Tough Feeling Bad About These Awesome Diablo III Figures

Diablo III statues too expensive? Build your own. That’s what Samo Kramberger has done, crafting three custom pieces based on Diablo III’s barbarian, monk and demon hunter. The detail on the barbarian’s outfit and accessories is amazing, even if his face is a little upsetting. The demon hunter and monk, though, are just about perfect.…

Xbox Live is green across the board. Resume your deathmatching and Netflixing.

Yep, It’s A Slingshot That Shoots Chainsaws

Sound like something that you’d only see in a video game? Well, thanks to the maniac YouTube weaponcrafter Joreg Sprave, it’s also something that exists in real life. Granted, it’s a javelin with a very small chainsaw on the end, but I don’t think that distinction would matter if you caught one of these suckers…

SimCity’s Expensive Version Is $80, But…

Normally, the deluxe edition of a game withholds a few things, but EA seem to be going all-out with SimCity, throwing so much extra junk at the more expensive version (it’s $20 more than the regular) that they’re basically saying “you are scum for buying the normal version and your friends will view you accordingly”.…

Xbox Live is currently down. Microsoft says they’re looking into the problem.

Forget Raiden. Play As Cyborg Ninja In Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance Instead.

Perhaps some of you still feel conflicted about Raiden after Metal Gear Solid 2. Maybe some of you just plain don’t want to play as Raiden again. Whatever it is, good news. You don’t have to play as Raiden if you pre-order Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance from GameStop. In that case, your pre-order bonus allows…

If you like music and also video games, you’ll like Kotaku Melodic. Kirk puts a lot of jazzy love into it.

Normal Clocks Are Stupid. This LEGO Contraption Knows What’s Up.

LEGO really are amazing little blocks, aren’t they? You can build insane contraptions out of bunches of them, including custom clocks. Custom clocks that actually work. Jason Allemann built this neat-looking clock that you see in the video above. It probably won’t be a replacement to whatever alarm-capable, and otherwise noise-free clock you’re currently using,…

Brian Reynolds, designer of Civilization II, has left Zynga, where he’d headed up development on FrontierVille

The Characters From The Cave, Now Available In Charming Toy Form

The characters are the highlight of Double Fine’s new adventure game The Cave. Seven wanderers, each with his or her own selfish journey to undertake (and lesson to learn), each drawn in the game’s groovy art style If you’re a fan of the game (like Tina came to be when she reviewed it), you might…

The Endless Possibilities Of The Best World-Map Music

No doubt about it: we all love video game world-maps. That moment when you first set foot into a game’s wide blue yonder and see just how far the horizon goes… it’s magic. While video game world-maps are often plenty beautiful-looking, it’s also important how beautiful they sound. We’ll often spend hours and hours exploring…

This Insane Torchlight II Mod Adds A New Class, New Regions, And More

Months after players have eked the last drop of content out of the vanilla version of Torchlight II, modders are still going strong, twisting, re-vamping, and moulding the game into whatever they please. But while there are many fine mods out there (more than I could hope to keep track of, really), the Synergies Mod…

He Made An Honest Game About His Work, And It Cost Him His Job

Last year, we told you about I Get This Call Every Day— a depressing indie game about working in a call center. It’s a good, humanizing title about working a soulless day job. Unfortunately, the game put the developer, David S. Gallant, in hot water. Earlier today a post on The Star appeared online, claiming…

84-Year-Old Man Plays Video Games, Has Cutest Reactions Possible

Here’s the 84-year-old grandpa of YouTube user GrandpaPlaysGames reacting to shooters like Halo 4 and Black Ops II It is totally adorable. He should hook up with this woman. Can we start a petition to make that happen? Our 84 year old Grandpa plays Videogames! [YouTube]

Hope you weren’t expecting any Prince of Persia games soon, because Ubisoft tells IGN the series is “paused”.

Junction Point creator Warren Spector wrote a heartfelt note about his studio’s closure today.

Hey Look, It’s A Shooter That Lets You Dance Gangnam Style

Yesterday, I wrote about taunts—why they’re awesome and why people do them. Reader r3dr0x pointed me toward Blacklight: Retribution, a futuristic, free-to-play shooter. Most people know it as the game that lets you see through walls. It’s also a game that lets you dance PSY’s ultra-popular Gangnam Style. Check out the video above by YouTube…

A neat article at The Atlantic looks how the brilliant iOS game Hundreds is its own sort of haute couture cool.

The Alien Vs. Predator Battle Gets Mobilized with AVP: Evolution

With the console and PC release of Aliens: Colonial Marines right around the corner, Fox Digital Entertainment taps Angry Mob Entertainment (Predators, Muffin Knight) to give iOS and Android gamers something to do while everyone else is playing the Gearbox game. That something is Alien Vs. Predator: Evolution, a single-player third-person action-adventure game that’s really…