Four Creative (if Bizarre) Games from Global Game Jam Beijing

The Global Game Jam, where thousands upon thousands of gamers join together to create a video game over a weekend, is over, and this year, for the first time ever, the game jam also came to Beijing. China has had development teams participate in the GGJ in the past. Over the last four years, Shanghai…

The Homeworld remastered collection will be out for PC on February 25, Gearbox just announced. Teaser trailer right here.

Geforce GTX 960 Review: Sweet Spot’ GPU or Not?

Introduced last September, Nvidia’s Maxwell-based GeForce GTX 970 and GTX 980 delivered twice the performance per watt of their Kepler equivalents on top of bringing support for Microsoft’s upcoming DirectX 12 API as well as other new features such as Nvidia Voxel Global Illumination (VXGI), Multi-Frame sampled AA (MFAA), and Dynamic Super Resolution (DSR). Despite…

24 Karat Gold PS4 And Xbox One Controllers Are Dumb, Almost Sold Out

Earlier this week the folks at ColorWare (“The Color People” is probably not their slogan) released an extremely limited run of 24 karat gold-plated PlayStation 4 and Xbox One controllers. At $300 a piece the PS4 controllers are already sold out. Granted only 25 of each console’s controller were made, but that just makes the…

First-Person Yoshi’s Island Gets A Little Too Personal

If the idea of Mario’s ride ingesting Shy Guys and spitting them out as eggs in Yoshi’s Island made you uneasy, this 3D first-person recreation of the game’s first level will not help at all. Bestvegeta has taken the opening level of one of Nintendo’s best platformers and made it weird. It’s one thing to…

The Saturday Stream Plays Citizens Of Earth (All Done)

Today we take a short dive into Eden Industries comical role-playing game Citizens of Earth, in which we play the Vice President of the entire planet. No pressure. Well, except for the pressure of forgetting to install the game you’ve been looking forward to playing all week long. Luckily the Steam version of the game…

This Week In The Business: An (Over) Promising Future

QUOTE | “It did remind me of [Kinect]. You kind of want to scream ‘don’t over promise these things.'” – Designer Peter Molyneux of 22cans, talking about Microsoft HoloLens from his perspective as an early Kinect developer Elsewhere in the business of video games this past week … QUOTE | “There have been a lot…

The first big Counter-Strike competition of the year is happening right now. MLG X Games Aspen just kicked off, and it’s running all weekend. GosuGamers has a good primer on the big storylines to keep an eye out for. Watch it all unfold below. If you want to know when various teams are playing, there’s…

If Microsoft is serious about PC games, Xbox One should be the real Steam Machine. Here’s some interesting reading fromVG247 on how Valve’s living room centric Steam Machine plot failed, and how Microsoft—fresh off a years-long stint of pretending PC gaming doesn’t exist—could partner with Steam and pick up where they left off. The gist:…

The Top 50 Smash Bros. Plays of Last Year

The Smash Bros. community has seen a lot of hype in the last year, culminating in a lot of excellent plays. Now that 2014 is over, let’s look back at some of the best moments in competitive Smash Bros. plays. EvenMatchupGaming has been counting down the best plays of 2014 this entire week, and their…

Sometimes, All Your World Of Warcraft Opponents Are Bots

If you’ve played World of Warcraft for any long span of time, you’ve likely encountered a bot, a player character controlled by a third-party program. Maybe it was mindlessly thwacking the loot out of some small woodland creature, or maybe it was just staring at a wall. Whatever happened, it probably wasn’t this bad. In…