Last year, as you might remember, this website leaked almost everything there was to know about Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 As you might also remember, Modern Warfare 3 did okay. Like, $775 million in its first five days okay. People could easily go on the Internet and read extensive spoilers on every single…
Well here’s an interesting coincidence. The image on the left is a monster from a 2002 Dungeons & Dragons Monster Manual called the Nightmare Beast, drawn by artist Wayne Reynolds. The image on the right is the August edition of talk show host Rush Limbaugh’s newsletter, the Limbaugh Letter. The similarities are uncanny. So uncanny,…
Mexican gymnast Elsa Garcia Rodriguez Blancas did her Olympic qualification routine to an arrangement of music from The Legend of Zelda. Specifically, an arrangement by violinist Lindsey Stirling. Awesome, no? Read more about Elsa Garcia Rodriguez Blancas, her love of video games, and how she came to choose this piece of music for her performance.…
You can help design the next version of Sony’s PlayStation 3 controller. Head over to the PS Blog to enter the contest
Hot off Nintendo’s presses, here’s the latest trailer for Pokémon Black Version 2 and Pokémon White Version 2, which will be out for DS on October 7.
Reader Dan Hobart has been cutting long Super Nintendo games into digestible five or six-minute “abbreviated” video versions. They’re fun to watch, especially if you haven’t played some of these games in a while. Above: Chrono Trigger in five minutes. Here are a few more: Seiken Densetsu 3 abridged. Secret of Mana abridged. Super Metroid…
The creators of Final Fantasy are working on an action-role-playing game that will be platform-agnostic, according to a new report. According to the latest issue of Japanese gaming mag Famitsu (as translated by Andriasang), Square Enix producer Ryutaro Ichimura (best known for working on multiple games in the Dragon Quest series) is heading up an…
This video has been making the rounds today. It’s pretty hilarious. Worth at least 3 minutes and 19 seconds of your time. Even if you don’t want to work for Kixeye.
Star Wars: The Old Republic currently has less than a million subscribers, publisher Electronic Arts said in an investors call today. BioWare’s massively multiplayer online role-playing game has been hemorrhaging subscribers since it launched last December. Earlier this year, the subscriber total dropped from 1.7 million to 1.3 million EA did not give the number…
Rockstar will release three DLC packs for Max Payne 3 instead of the five originally announced, the company said today.
BioWare’s massively multiplayer online RPG Star Wars: The Old Republic will go free-to-play this fall, publisher Electronic Arts said today. EA later said in a press release that The Old Republic will go free-to-play this November. The game will be available for $15 starting August 7, a price that also includes a month of free…
The folks behind Words with Friends have yet another problem on their hands: a new lawsuit charges Zynga’s top-level employees with insider trading. Law firm Newman Ferrara, one of five to announce that it would investigate Zynga for violating federal laws in the wake of news that insiders dumped half a billion in stock three…
Want to hang out and play arcade games with a bunch of game devs and journalists? Come to Brooklyn’s Barcade tonight at 7pm.
There are moments in Kingdom Hearts 3D: Dream Drop Distance, when, caught up in a storm of hectic keyblade slashing and chromatic aerial theatrics, you might not notice the ticking timer on the bottom of your screen. Until it hits 0. Then, abruptly, as if the game has decided you were having too much fun,…
There’s a new Kingdom Hearts game out tomorrow. It’s called Kingdom Hearts 3D: Dream Drop Distance and it’s the seventh game in a series that now has 250% more spinoffs than main installments. To some of you a new Kingdom Hearts might be reason to celebrate. To others it might just be confusing. What is…
Would you watch this movie? I would watch this movie.
Now here’s an adorable story. The folks at Jellyvision, the company behind wonderful Facebook game You Don’t Know Jack, sent us the above video along with the following: John Zekind reached out to us via @youdontknowjack on Twitter for help with a “secret mission” Jellyvision DMd him and his request was that he and his…
Kirk says Call Me Maybe has expired. I disagree. What do you think? (via TinyCartridge)
Like much of America, I saw The Dark Knight Rises last weekend. Like much of America, I left the theater completely enamored with the vicious (and occasionally ridiculous) villain Bane. My first thought: “Holy crap, Bane sounds exactly like Deckard Cain.” My second thought: “Why don’t RPGs have villains this awesome?” Okay. Maybe it’s unfair…
Bad news just got worse for the makers of FarmVille. It looks like a whole lot of lawyers are about to pounce on one of gaming’s biggest companies. Following news that Zynga insiders sold large amounts of stock three months before it crashed this week, multiple law firms have announced that they will investigate claims…
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