Xbox One’s First Wave of Compatible Xbox 360 Games Has Hidden Gems But Not Fans’ Most Wanted Titles

Starting tomorrow this week, over 100 games originally made for the Xbox 360 will be playable on the Xbox One. But the titles that garnered the most votes in a Microsoft user poll are missing. If you were hoping you’d be able to play last-gen classics like Red Dead Redemption or Halo: Reach on your…

Halo 5 Player Snipes Entire Enemy Team Seconds After Starting A Match

Now this is how you start a Halo 5 round. Watch as Xbox player I Habb I opens up a Shotty Snipers match with a sick 4-player killstreak on Truth: [Source: XboxClips.com] That’s some sharp shooting, for sure. A well-earned Overkill! On maps like these, I tend to immediately run away so as to avoid…

Call of Duty: Black Ops III‘s Most Brutal Scene Haunts Me

Lately I’ve been having nightmares about robots. Spoilers for the end of the first mission of Call of Duty: Black Ops III follow. It’s strange. I thought it would have been the zombies. My mind’s been fertile soil for the seeds of bad dreams since I was a small child, and over the years I’ve…

After Diablo III‘s Set Items, Get Ready For… Set Dungeons

Adventures in Diablo III didn’t end with patch 2.3. There’s a new, similarly large content patch coming soon with enough new things packed in to make it worth going back and gain a few more Paragon levels. One of the most exciting things will be a feature called set dungeons. Bright green set items are…

Jamie Lee Curtis Went to BlizzCon as World of Warcraft Undead

That’s one way to hide from people at a big convention like BlizzCon. We already knew actress Jamie Lee Curtis and her family likes to infiltrate gaming events in disguises and she proved it once again at BlizzCon by dressing up as a Forsaken character from World of Warcraft Nailed it. Especially the hair! Safe…

Celebrating Fifteen Years of No One Lives Forever

On November 9, 2000, the saga of superspy Cate Archer kicked off with the release of The Operative: No One Lives Forever. What followed was a thrilling spy adventure spanning two awesome stealth first-person-shooters (and one straight-up shooter, with a different protagonist, that nobody really talks about). As Cate Archer, you’d carry out various missions…

Blizzard Held a StarCraft Wedding in South Korea

Tonight, former StarCraft pro NaDa had the most fitting wedding ceremony you could imagine: at the Legacy of the Void launch party. As tipster Sang points out, the ceremony was livestreamed on Twitch and the Blizzard Afreeca channel. How’s this for an entrance? And here is NaDa’s bride, whom he met while in college, with…

One Piece’s and Dragon Ball’s Creators Talk About Not Sleeping

Making manga is not easy. Something has to give and that something is usually sleep! Eiichiro Oda, the creator of One Piece, is an infamous workaholic. His hero, Dragon Ball creator Akira Toriyama, is no slouch. In an interview from ages ago (recently, uploaded to 2ch), the two talked about their hectic work schedules. “Now,…

Japanese Comedian Will Show You Some Butt Naked Poses

This is Tonikaku Akarui Yasumura. He’s a funny man who’s achieved a certain degree of fame in Japan for his “I’m wearing” underpants gag. As Afternoon News points out, the comedian has done an English language version of his gag: As well as a Korean and a Thai version. Butt naked gags are universal. That’s…

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This Guy’s iPhone Passcode Is Too Damn Long

It really is. How does he even remember it? I have no idea! Japanese Twitter user yossy1999116, it seems, originally uploaded the clip, writing, “There’s this amazing dude on the subway…” I’ve seen other videos of people with long passcodes, but this is the first time I’ve seen someone out in the wild with one…

“Hey You, Show Me Your Season Pass, Assholes”

There are many actual, official ways EA will try and get you to buy a season pass for Star Wars: Battlefront. This Unscriptedvideo (via Kotaku AU) is not one of them. Warning: Some NSFW language here. It’s a funny video, but to be fair, it’s more a clip about the concept of season passes (and…

Hot Warplane Art Dump

Antonis Karidis is an artist from Greece who has done work for companies like Ubisoft and 777. He specialises in images of military hardware, aircraft in particular. You can see more of Antonis’ art at his DeviantArtand ArtStationpages. To see the larger pics in all their glory (or, if they’re big enough, so you can…

Someone Fixed Alien: Isolation For Cowards Like Me

Ah, Alien: Isolation. A game I could have loved, were it not entirely about something I hate Walking around such a faithfully-recreated version of the original 1979 film’s universe was great! Being chased the whole time by a giant monster was not. So I’m very excited about [Lebowski]-=ThArK=-’s mod, which is actually from 2014 but…

Black Ops 3 Launched A Bit Broken On PC

Call of Duty campaigns are a guilty pleasure of mine, so I was excited last week to fire up Black Ops 3 on PC. Ten minutes later, I’d shut it down, and a sad sense of déjà vu was washing over me. It was a year ago that I was writing about how Advanced Warfare’s…

For The Hatsune Miku Gamer Who Has Everything (Except This, Of Course) 

Hardcore fans of Japanese virtual idol Hatsune Miku have already picked up a copy of Project Mirai DX for the 3DS—many even picked up a 3DS just to play it. What they probably don’t have is the Hatsune Miku Project Mirai Complete box set, packed with music, movies and toys. Watch the video to hear…

The Week In Games: Nothing Coming Out This Week, Everyone Take A Nap

Nothing really stands out in this week’s release list. Oh wait, there is that one game… Of course I am talking about Superbeat Xonic from PM Studios, the folks previously responsible for the mostly glorious DJMax series of rhythm games. I’ve been playing it for a couple of weeks now on Vita, and while I…