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Heavy Rain Creator: ‘The Only Thing I Didn’t Want to Do Was a Sequel’

Heavy Rain got some criticism. There are whole train of thoughts that either praise or slam Quantic Dream’s experimental PS3 game. Some people love what it tried to do in terms of how play mechanics and plot continuation when certain characters died. Other players hated the way it tried to tell its story. When Beyond:…

Here’s what’s going on Talk Among Yourselves, our reader-written blog: A pair of reader reviews covers recent downloadable titles. Contributor DamsonRhee talks about the first time she ever played a video game. It was Super Mario Bros, by the way. Great way to start off! Then, GiantBoyDetective says, in his own words, “I dislike the…

Fox News Host Calls Out ‘Hollywood’s Violent Video Games’ at NRA Event

This isn’t the first time Fox News’ Jeanine Pirro has name-checked video games in a rant meant to inflame people scared of any change to gun ownership rights. But this weekend, Pirro’s comments were made from the NRA’s bully pulpit. An address at the NRA Annual Meetings—reported on by Raw Story— Pirro said the following:…

35 Minutes With The Next Game From The Makers Of Heavy Rain

David Cage was nervous last Saturday night. And with good reason. There he was, about to unveil a sizable chunk of Beyond: Two Souls in front of a packed house at the prestigious Tribeca Film Festival. This was only the second time that a video game was shown at the annual celebration of cinema founded…

Fans Angry Might & Magic Heroes VI Has Been Unplayable for 24 Hours

Over the last day or so, complaints have cropped up from players who’ve been trying to play the latest installment of the long-lived Might & Magic series. Users have turned to the game’s official Ubisoft message boards and Steam forums to vent, citing missing music, corrupt installation files and game freezes that prevent them from…

Fuse—the multiplayer shooter that evolved from a more cartoon-styled earlier version called Overstrike—will be getting a demo for PS3 and Xbox 360 on May 7th. So, if you want to see if the game will be worth your time, that’s your best chance.

Meet Ming Mecca, 2014’s Weirdest Video Game System

If a Nintendo Entertainment System and a recording studio mixing board had a baby, it would look a lot like Ming Mecca, which is very likely the weirdest piece of new video game hardware announced this year. Or maybe any year. This trailer teases a new console/game creation tool that uses discrete analog inputs to…

Here’s what’s going on Talk Among Yourselves, our reader-written blog: A pair of reader reviews covers recent downloadable titles. Contributor GiantBotDetective breaks down just why he’s so massively excited for Rayman Legends to come out later this year. Then, Zarynx recounts the time he got to meet legendary Nintendo designer Shigeru Miyamoto. NotGoodForYou also offers…

I loved Comics Alliance, the AOL nerd-culture site that was just shuttered this week. Over at The Beat, Heidi MacDonald has a great write-up about why the site mattered, what might be next for its former staffers and what its closing might portend for other similar outlets.

Occupy Movement-Style Superheroes Are in My Favorite Panel This Week

The Movement #1 – I was skeptical about The Movement at first back when DC comics announced it as part of a pair of new series focused on the fractious class and political divides in modern-day America. These could be comics that felt horribly out of touch if the execution stumbled. The first issue’s out…

Oh, Good: A PlayStation Vita Game About When Guys Need to Pee

The rise of smartphones and mobile gaming means that there’s also been a rise of bathroom gaming. (Don’t act like you don’t do it.) But there hasn’t been an uptick in games about bathrooms. If you’ve been waiting for one, Men’s Room Mayhem offers you some relief. MRM looks like it’s going to be fairly…

Here’s what’s going on Talk Among Yourselves, our reader-written blog: A pair of reader reviews covers recent downloadable titles. Contributor AzureGuy offers his thoughts on trippy first-person brawler Zeno Clash II and Tjoeb123 takes Black Rock Shooter out for a spin. And PsychoSmiley looks at games that had great ideas but failed to garner enough…

It’s a old-school-centric line-up for the Nintendo Download this week as Pac-Man, Mega Man and Balloon Fight all show up on the Wii U Virtual Console. Here’s the full-list

Too Many People Working on This Game Were the Victims of Bullying

There’s no gameplay in this video for The Silent Enemy, the new project being made by the creators of Papo & Yo. But, as you watch the various staffers of Minority Media face the camera or talk about their roles in the game, you realize that there’s a good reason that gameplay takes a backseat.…

Let’s Look At Some More Oddly Electrifying Video Game Patent Art

The deal with Context-Free Patent Artis that it takes the weird flowcharts and bizarre drawings from the patents submitted by various companies and designers and throws them up on the web with no explanation about what you’re seeing. I didn’t know that the image up top was for an Addams Family Uncle Fester game that…

Here’s what’s going on Talk Among Yourselves, our reader-written blog: contributor Zarynx gets all wistful about rainy weather and how it makes him think of a specific piece of video game music. When do you find game music creeping into your life? And you can always go join the voices talking about video games and…

This Shenmue Statue Is Ready for Forklift Races

Announced a while back, First4Figures’ excellent statue of Shenmue’s main character looks like it jumped straight out of your old TV and into the real world. The Ryo Hazuki piece comes with a Phoenix Mirror stand and measures 12 inches tall. You can get this tribute to the classic Dreamcast game later this year for…

They Changed Fighting Games, Now They’re Making Something New

Tom and Tony Cannon know about building communities. Specifically, communities for people who compete in games where characters pummel each other senseless. Now they want to make a game where avatars live together in (relative) harmony. But they say that Stonehearth—the city-building game that they’re trying to fund via a just-launched Kickstarter campaign—isn’t all that…

Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon and Manborg: Separated at Birth?

I’d been hearing about Manborg—the no-budget homage to 1980s VHS action movies—for a while now. But I only realized that it was out on DVD today after I saw this tweet from Irrational Games writer Joe Fielder: Meanwhile, in video game land, Far Cry 3: Blood Dragon comes out today, too. The creators behind the…

Call of Duty: Ghosts Will Be Out This November

Call of Duty: Ghosts—the next game in Activision’s blockbuster FPS series—will be out November 5th, according to a promo poster seen on IGN. Rumors about the next CoD have been spinning for about a week after the console-branded box art (shown above) leaked onto the internet. Retail listings outed the upcoming installment, about which no…