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PlayStation Plus—and Six Free Games—Come to the Vita Next Week

The best thing about PlayStation Plus is the Instant Games Collection, a feature that offers up free, top-shelf titles to the online service’s paying members. PS3 owners have been enjoying those perks for a while and now they’re coming to Sony’s gaming handheld Next week, six free games—including Gravity Rush, Jet Set Radio and Final…

Hey, n00b, You Can Help Pure Pwnage Become a Movie

Back in 2004, way before Twitch.tv, The Guild or million-dollar e-sports purses, Pure Pwnage let gamers seee themselves represented with humor and a little bit of painful truth on the internet. The web series was successful enough to get turned into a TV show in its native Canada but things have been very quiet in…

If you shop at Old Navy early on Black Friday, you could win a Wii U or a New Super Mario Bros U game

Thomas Was Alone—one of this year’s most clever, best-executed games—is on Steam now. You really should get it.

The Next Mass Effect Is Being Made on The Battlefield 3 Graphics Engine

BioWare Montreal will be heading up the development on the next Mass Effect game and they’ll be using the Frostbite 2 engine to build it. The epicenter for the hit sci-fi series has generally been done out of BioWare’s Edmonton homebase. But a new post on the BioWare blog reveals that the three-year-old BioWare Montreal…

Don’t Worry About GTA V Being Too Big, Rockstar Says

Rockstar’s next game looks to be its biggest ever. In fact, it’s supposed to outstrip the combined size of the three of the publisher’s most massive releases. Some folks worried when they heard about GTA V‘s size. Would the quality suffer? Would there be enough to do? Sure, there will, says one of Rockstar’s co-founders…

Seems Like Sonic the Hedgehog Will Be Getting New Games Next Year

The recent release history for games featuring Sega’s mascot has been a tumultuous one. But the blue speedster continues to lure players in with hopes that the new games will channel in some of the charm and challenge of olden times. According to multiple sources—GameRanx, Official Nintendo Magazine UK, VideoGamer and Nintendo Everything—that cycle will…

Marvel Comics is partnering with Korea’s Smilegate for an Asia-only MOBA title based on their popular superheroes.

Tron Is Just the Place for Sweet Jumps in This GTA IV Mod

It’s true that the PC version of Grand Theft Auto IV has given birth to some truly inspired mods. But not many of them totally re-paint Liberty City in as spectacular fashion as this one does. Modder Quechus13 re-skins GTA IV’s open world with the iconic, neon stripes of the Tron movies and throws in…

Grand Theft Auto V? Ha! Here’s GTA III Played to 100% Completion in Less Than Seven Hours.

The news that GTA V will be bigger than Red Dead Redemption, San Andreas, and GTA IV combined is impressive. It makes on think back to the vast expanses of GTA III, the game that pioneered huge open-world experiences. People spent weeks on that game, trying to complete every last side quest and find every…

Barack Obama Would Probably Beat Mitt Romney in Letterpress, Too

The thing I like about Letterpress is how it makes a field of letters turn into a vicious battleground, with two players vying to control more territory than the other via clever word-forming. Sounds a lot like something important that happened this week, no? (Image by Dave Wiskus, via Twitter)

Father Hacks Zelda For His Daughter, Makes Link A Girl

Maybe Link doesn’t need to be a young boy. The father of one little girl decided he’d change the gender of one of Nintendo’s most iconic characters so he hacked The Legend of Zelda: Wind Waker. While playing the 2003 Gamecube title with his daughter Maya, Mike Hoye had been reading the game’s text to…

Looks like PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale‘s final boss will be Polygon Man, the short-lived mascot for the PS1

The Shadow of the Wii U Looms Over Mario, Mickey Mouse and Pokémon in This Week’s Nintendo Download

The next home console from Nintendo is so close you can taste it. It probably tastes like fingerprints. In the meantime, games continue to roll out for the company’s handhelds. And, look, a WiiWare release! Let’s run it all down. Games Paper Mario: Sticker Star Platform: 3DS/3DS XL Price: $39.99 When an accident scatters stickers…

This Trailer for the New Karateka Makes A Hilarious Reference to the Classic Apple II Version

Gamers of a certain age remember the dramatic opening to Jordan Mechner’s classic fighting adventure. But what happened before our hero stormed Akuma’s castle? How’d he learn how to fight? The video—which hypes up today’s release of a Karateka re-make— above answers some of those questions in really funny fashion. You can grab the game…

Hey, 2012, Deus Ex Called; They Want Their Bionic Arm Back.

Deus Ex: Human Revolution happened in 2027. Last year’s hit stealth/action hybrid featured Adam Jensen, a lead character who sported cool, lethal cybernetics in his rebuilt body. Nigel Ackland isn’t a shooting/sneaking action hero, but he’s a huge step closer to the augmented humans in Deus Ex‘s future. The bebionic B3 prosthetic that Ackland is…

For the Horde: She Plays World Of Warcraft AND She Won Her State Senate Race

She plays as an Orc, characters who are arguably the bad guys of the World of Warcraft universe. But last night, Colleen Lachowicz—the Democratic candidate whose activity in World of Warcraft was the subject of a Republican smear campaign—won an election that leveled up her political career. Last month, the Maine Republican Party set up…

Best Buy’s Black Friday Deals Include A $200 250 GB Xbox 360 Bundle, Assassin’s Creed III for $35 and More.

That magical time of year is upon us, when prices for video game hardware and software get sliced down to can’t-say-no levels. Best Buy’s offerings have broken cover and include Ubisoft’s big new release, a shiny 3DS bundle with Super Mario 3D Land and a Vita+Black Ops: Declassified. There’s plenty to browse so head over…

You Can Celebrate Mass Effect’s Would-Be Holiday With a Look at the Upcoming Omega DLC

So, nobody’s getting the day off on N7 Day, the made-up celebration that EA’s cooked up for BioWare’s hit sci-fi saga. Still having to go to work today is a bummer, but there are Mass Effect goodies to be had. Aside from the community-based activities like sending pictures, downloading commemorative art and the like, multiplayer…

Seven Comics That Will Sharpen Your Skills This Week

If you’re here in the Panel Discussion programming block, you might be a lapsed comics reader, trying to find a way back to the JLA Satellite. Or you might someone killing time until you pick up your weekly Wednesday pull list. Or maybe you’ve said goodbye to dozens of longboxes to embrace the promise of…