Like Dark Souls, But Spookier: The Steam Stream Plays Malebolgia

Malebolgia is best described as Dark Souls, except gorgeously cel-shaded and spooky as hell. I hope it’s as good as it looks. Watch me play it below. Also on the docket for today’s stream: Karmaflow, a rock opera video game with involvement from a surprising number of metal stars, and a game where you’re a…

Hacker’s MMO Character Publicly Stripped, Killed & Banned

A hacker terrorized Guild Wars 2 for weeks and weeks. When the game’s creators finally took action, they humiliated the crap out of the dirty cheater. They took control of the hacker’s character, stripped them naked, and made them jump to their death. Then they systematically deleted each of the hacker’s characters and banned them.…

Tough times at the once-mighty Farmville studio Zynga. The company announced $100 million in cuts. CEO Mark Pincus: ”We are reducing our workforce by 364 people or approximately 18%, decreasing our outside services and reducing our central function.” Yikes.

There’s A New Way To Personalize Champions In League Of Legends

League of Legends is rolling out something called “champion mastery” across the game’s many servers this week. It’s an experimental feature that sounds like it could scratch an itch that League players have felt for a long time: the desire to toy with their favorite characters in immediate, tangible ways. Champion mastery adds a fresh…

One Of The Rarest PlayStation One Games Is Now $6 On PSN

As of this writing you can expect to pay between somewhere between $200 and $500 for a copy of Capcom’s delightful PSX Mega Man Legends prequel, The Misadventures of Tron Bonne. Or you can just grab it today on PSNfor six bucks. Hooray! Released a little over 15 years ago in North America, back when…

Cordial Minuet, the slightly-demonic two-player video game you play online for real money, is now available for all to play. Check it out here. Don’t go bankrupt, and please thank us if you strike it rich.

Brutal Doom Mod Has Some Great Customizable Gore Options

Ah, Brutal Doom. The last place a gore-hungry gamer can go when drowning people in The Sims and exploding opponents’ testicles in Mortal Kombat starts to get old. The famously gratuitous and bloody mod for classic first-person shooter Doom (already an exceedingly gratuitous and bloody game) is in the process of being updated in a…

Sony has decided to renew its superhero series, Powers, for a second season, so says The Hollywood Reporter The second season will premiere sometime in 2016. You can reach the author of this post at [email protected] or on Twitter at @patrickklepek

Creator Of Original Mobile Snake Is Making A Sequel

Can you teach an old snake new tricks? I hope so. Taneli Armanto, the creator of the original mobile version of Snake (which debuted on a 1997 Nokia handset) is attempting a comeback this month with Snake Rewind, a new and (allegedly) improved next act for the classic puzzle game that’ll release on iOS, Android,…