Luftrausers—the retro dogfighting game from the makers of Ridiculous Fishing—is coming to PS3 and Vita this spring.
The new Star Trek game changes the evil Gorn from rubbery and goofy to angry and snarly. Oh, and they’re naked.
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Luigi’s Mansion: Dark Moon and a new Pokemon game lead off this week’s list of upcoming Nintendo downloadables
Soon, mods for Left 4 Dead 2—like the one that turns zombies into cats—will work in Campaign and Survival modes
Think back to when you made mixtapes or burned a specific selection of songs to CD for somebody. What were you trying to do? You were trying to get across the awesomeness of a set of feelings through a bunch of really cool tracks. There might be some uptempo stuff, really affecting acoustic numbers or…
The man who revolutionized computer role-playing games with the Ultima series doesn’t think much of the talent currently working in the medium when it comes to game design. Who’s good at it? He is. Maybe a few others. In an interview with PC Gamer, Lord British says that there just isn’t that much status-quo changing…
Big! Small! Big! Small! iO9 has a look at leaked footage from Edgar Wright’s upcoming Ant-Man movie. Love that helmet.
Jimmy Fallon’s been about as high-profile a video game enthusiast as you can get these last few years. His late night talk show has offered up early looks at big releases like Halo 4 and the Wii U, along with offering exposure to developers and execs. But this new singalong with Disney starlet Selena Gomez…
Video game soundtracks have been around for more than three decades, if you count back to the doomp-doomp of Space Invaders. This mash-up video created by Ithaca Audio folds in bits of audio from Tetris, Street Fighter and Sonic next to tracks by David Bowie, Michael Jackson and the old-school Doctor Who theme. And to…
You spend a lot of time looking at GIFs. Sports. Cats. NES games. NSFW stuff. Sometimes you have to dig and dig looking for what you want. But, according to The Week, now Google has added new search filters that will make finding those silent, bite-sized animations even easier. The details are in this Google+…
Back in 2009, The Swapper looked promising but rough. The core concept was there and you could see how the instant cloning mechanic would make for a fun twist on the typical platformer experience. Four years later, Facepalm Games is showing off a great new trailer and letting folks know that their sci-fi sidescroller will…
The second part of Assassin’s Creed III‘s The Tyranny of King Washington DLC is out today. Ben Franklin better run!
If you ask me, Supergiant Games’ Bastion was one of the best games to come out in the last few years. So, a new game from that indie dev studio is great news. The glimpses of gameplay make it seem like Transistor shares some of Bastion‘s DNA, but the visuals are more Akira/Blade Runner than…
You might be among the legions of readers who loved Brian K. Vaughan’s classic Vertigo series Y The Last Man or are currently enjoying his excellent Saga series from Image. And you might know that he and Marcos Martin did an excellent Doctor Strange mini-series a few years back. Martin’s done incredible artwork on projects…
Nintendo’s letting folks buy Luigi’s Mansion: Dark Moon and Pokemon Mystery Dungeon early at PAX East
When it comes to the increasing scapegoating that says video games cause mass shootings, game-makers haven’t had a whole lot to say in their chosen medium. Most video game companies and their representatives seem to be choosing to stay away from a debate in the court of public opinion, operating maybe on the principle that…
The next title from Ken Levine and Irrational Games finally comes out next week. But the hype cycle for the next BioShock game has been spinning for a long while and people have been spouting out opinions every since the very first glimpse of BioShock Infinite. This video animates a bunch of vulgar, misinformed and…
Sandy Hook shooter Adam Lanza maintained a spreadsheet filled with information from mass killings from the past and further alleges that it’s a major sign of how video games influenced the mindset and planning of Lanza’s terrible act of lethal violence, according to a front page story in today’s New York Daily News A law…
Defiance—the SyFy TV series tied to Trion Worlds’ shooter—isn’t out yet but a second season is already being planned
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