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Who Should Star in a Real Video Game Version of The Expendables?

Duke Nukem is Sylvester Stallone. Kind of. The Rocky actor wants you to believe that he can still explode the living hell out of armies of bad guys. So does Duke. And, with the right vitamins (or developers), they both can! We hope. The meta-hook for The Expendables movies is audiences are in on the…

Bullet Run Is Now Available for Your Deathmatch Needs

Sony Online Entertainment’s new free-to-play online shooter comes to Windows machines today, letting you compete in gun-based bloodsport on a fake reality TV show. More info here

Google Outlaws App Clones on Google Play

Scammer programmers love to pass off clones of successful games as the real thing. Google’s trying to stop them. New language in the tech giant’s Developer Program Policies call out “impersonation or deceptive behavior”: Don’t pretend to be someone else, and don’t represent that your app is authorized by or produced by another company or…

Everything You Know About Playing Tetris Won’t Help With This Clever New Puzzle Game

“It’s just like Tetris, right?” That’s what I was asked when someone peeked at my iPad screen while I was playing Slydris, the new game from Luke Schneider’s RadianGames imprint. The answer is no and yes. Slydris operates on the same falling-block template pioneered by Tetris and, yeah, you’re still aligning the tumbling shapes into…

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Papo & Yo Might Just Have the Prettiest Video Game Graffiti Ever

Graffiti’s played an important part in video games since early days, especially on console. Who can forget Jet Grind Radio‘s neon-colored spray paint? And, of course, Marc Ecko’s Getting Up centered its entire essence on the politics around graf writing. But upcoming PS3 game Papo & Yo might boast the most painterly street art ever.…

Five Comics That Will Shift Your Realities 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…

One of Batman’s Best Stories Comes to Life in a New Animated Movie

I’d known about the upcoming animated adaption of The Dark Knight Returns for a while now, but that awareness receded somewhere into the back of my brain somewhere. Like Old Bruce in a bathrobe. But this new trailer—via MTV Geek—is like “the rain on my chest,” a baptism. A baptism of remembering. It makes sense…

11 Great Video Game Wedding Invitations

It’s summer, so chances are that you’ve either been planning a wedding of your own or attending the nuptials of some dear friends. We’re sure that the requests for attendance that you’ve gotten in the mail have been pretty swank, but the invitations we’ve gathered here offer up awesome video game homages sometimes in playable…

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Tim Schafer, Nolan Bushnell and Others Tell You What’s In A Game

Every year sees the release of movies about making music, movies about making other culture and, of course, movies about making movies. Movies about making games? Only once in a while, as with Indie Game The Movie But a new documentary is giving you the chance to hear gaming icons like Tim Schafer, Keita Takahashi…

Jay-Z Is Executive-Producing a Basketball Video Game. Does He Know How to Code Now, Too?

Earlier today, the YouTube channel for Life & Times—a lifestyle website founded by hip-hop mogul Jay-Z—posted a video that touts the platinum-selling artist as an executive producer of NBA 2K13 When reached for reaction to the video, representatives said that 2K Sports had no comment. What does it mean when a part-owner of the yet-to-debut…

Air Force Drone Pilots Say Their Job Is Nothing Like a Video Game

It’s been slightly bizarre to watch controversy swirl around the use of unmanned aerial vehicles in 21st Century war-making, while at the same time UAVs’ presence in video games has only grown. Despite the fact that they might be the most politically charged aspect of present-day combat, they’ve been in multiple Call of Duty games…

Talk Amongst Yourselves

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Now I Want Pokemon, Star Fox and Metroid to Happen In Feudal Japan

We’ve already had a look at artist Jed Henry’s great reinterpretations of video game characters as they would’ve appeared during the age of samurai. But the shots above ramp things up even more. I can’t decide if the Starfox or Pokemon art is my favorite. See more of Henry’s Ukiyo-e styled images here

Stewie Terrorizes Frat Boys in These Family Guy Video Game Screen Shots

We already know that the toddler genius and talking dog from Seth McFarlane’s hit TV show will be the star of the upcoming Family Guy: Back to the Multiverse game. (Mike Fahey says it’ll probably be good for a laugh.) The screens above show off more of what the in-game action will look like, with…

1PP: You Might Not Be Getting What You Want When You Help Fund a Game

Let’s say you’ve thrown some cash behind a promising game project on Kickstarter or IndieGoGo. And let’s say you get the game and it’s not what you wanted. Do you demand a refund on your investment? This is one of the questions that comes up in the latest installment of First-Person Perspective, where everyday players…

A Glitch Turns Deus Ex: Human Revolution into Funktastic Pop Art

Say what you want about its lackluster boss battles, but no one can say that Deus Ex: Human Revolution wasn’t a great looking game. However, the glitch that Reddit user TheFightingDumples encountered stripped away all of the shooter’s detailed textures and replaced them with eye-popping colors. If only there were more games that had this…

Talk Amongst Yourselves

Count yourselves amongst the triumphant. You’ve conquered the week. Share your exploits with your fellow travelers, won’t you? And, then, go on and talk about the games you’re playing, loving and hating. Head over to Talk Amongst Yourselves, the place where we gather on a daily basis to discuss all things video game and existential.…