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Kick-Ass Still Kicks Ass In 8-Bit

You might think that a movie like Kick-Ass would need charismatic actors and improbable wire-fu in order to be enjoyable. And yet! Written and animated by David Dutton with music by Henry Dutton, this CineFix extremely abridged 8-bit version of the film still manages to hit some emotional highs, mainly in how it makes me…

Gone Home, the mysterious house-exploration game from the Fullbright Company, will be out on August 15 for PC, Mac and Linux. It’ll cost $19.99. I’ve played the first act and really liked it; you can find more at the game’s site

79 Words You Might Be Mispronouncing, From ‘GIF’ to ‘Zooey Deschanel’

At first, I was sure I’d know the correct pronunciation for all 79 of the words Mental Floss‘ John Green lays out in this video. But I gotta admit, once he got past the halfway point, he started getting to a few that I regularly mess up. “Triathlon,” and “Etcetera” are among my mispronounced words.…

John Carmack Talks Xbox One Backlash And Kinect Privacy Concerns

Super-whiz programmer John Carmack thinks some of the “witch hunt” against the Xbox One was unjustified, but he didn’t love all of the Microsoft’s original policies, either. In this clip from his marathon Quakecon keynote, Carmack forecasts the inevitably of cameras like Kinect and seems less excitable than most about machines that are constantly checking…

Jurassic Park For Sega CD: Fair or Fug?

When I was a kid, I didn’t have any set-top consoles. I read strategy guides and magazines, and lived games vicariously through text- and image-based walkthroughs. One of my fondest memories is of obsessively reading a walkthrough of Jurassic Park for the Sega CD. Oh, how I wanted to play that game! But I didn’t…

John Carmack on PS4 vs. Xbox One Specs: They’re ‘Very Close’

At the start of his QuakeCon keynote, legendary tech-whiz John Carmack offered some observations about the biggest two contenders in the coming console wars. You can watch the clip from Carmack’s keynote above. While he says he hasn’t done enough benchmarking to be able to do a straight-up comparison between the PS4 and Xbox One,…

Hate Plus, the sequel to Christine Love’s terrific visual novelAnalogue: A Hate Story, will be out on August 19. In the meantime, enjoy this kicky trailer.

All The Elder Scrolls Games Ever Made, All In One Box

Today at QuakeCon, Bethesda announced an all-inclusive anthology of Elder Scrolls games and add-ons coming to PC in September. Per Bethesda, the anthology will include: The Elder Scrolls Arena The Elder Scrolls II: Daggerfall The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind Tribunal Bloodmoon The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Knights of the Nine Shivering Isles The Elder Scrolls…

Take on Mars, the sim that lets you take control of a Mars rover and explore the Red Planet, is now available on Steam Early Access.

Every Single Movie Reference In The First Ten Seasons Of The Simpsons

If you’re ever planning to make a reference to a movie, just remember: Simpsons did it first. These two amazing supercuts of The Simpsons’ many, many movie references, as assembled at NextMovie by writer/editor Bryan Menegus, prove that fact. Sit back, enjoy, and try to remember if you recognized these back when you first watched…

Now This Is How You Sell An Indie Game

If you’re going to make a video pitching your new indie game, might as well go full-infomercial with it. Here’s Action Button Entertainment’s Tim Rogers (sometimes seen writing guest posts for this very site), pitching his new Vita game Ten by Eight. It looks fun, but really, just as with the promotion of his last…

Today during an investors’ call, EA announced that the reboot of Star Wars: Battlefront, first teased at this year’s E3, will most likely come out in the summer of 2015 alongside the first of Disney’s new Star Wars movies.

Finally, An Honest Trailer For The Worst Batman Movie

Batman’s been doing okay lately. His recent movies have been mostly good, and his recent games have been outstanding. So it’s easy to forget just how bad it got for a while there. Fortunately, the folks at Screen Junkies haven’t forgotten. They’ve made another of their “honest trailers,” for Joel Schumacher’s 1997 cinematic crash-landing Batman…

Wii U Arkham Origins Won’t Have Multiplayer, But Will It Cost Less?

Holy smaller video game, Batman! Warner Bros. has confirmed that the newly-revealed multiplayer modes for Batman: Arkham Origins won’t be included in the Wii U version of the game. As spotted by Eurogamer and IGN, the official press release accompanying the multiplayer announcement indicated that Arkham Origins‘ multiplayer modes will only be available on PS3,…

It’s Thugs vs. Thugs vs. Batman In Arkham Origins’ 3-Team Multiplayer

If you told me they were making multiplayer for a Batman game, I’d tell you that I want to play as Batman himself. I’d want to take down thugs controlled by other players, and I’d want to do it in the most Batman way possible. And what do you know, that’s just what the upcoming…

Check out this cool article at Mental Floss about humble origins of Oregon Trail, which would go on to become the greatest dysentery and river-fording simulator of all time.

Cool It With The Dumb Video-Game Graffiti

You’re in the midst of a bloody uprising, fighting not just for your freedom but for your life. The air is rank with the stench of battle. At every turn, people are dying. There’s a brief respite from the fighting, and you take the opportunity to grab your spray-paint can and leave a message on…

This video breaks down how classes will work in the upcoming Payday 2. This game was totally off my radar until I read Stephen’s E3 preview, and now I’m really looking forward to checking it out.

Adorable Last of Us Plushies Will Infect You With Cuteness

Aw, look at Ellie’s little comic book! Look at Joel’s little bricks! These adorable Last of Us plushies are by deviantARTist viciouspretty, who says she bought a PS3 just to play the game. Here they are in greater detail: Double-aww. (Source: ALBOTAS via Technabob)

New Marth Figure Is Stoic, Serious And Safe For Work

Max Factory has got a new Fire Emblem: Awakening figure coming, this time of the mysterious warrior Marth. See the full image below. Very cool, and much more appropriate for work/family settings than the last figure they did! I’m looking forward to seeing what it’ll look like when it’s finished. (Via Tiny Cartrige)