Thumb Wrestling Video Game Is As Absurd As You’d Think

It’s called ThumbderDome Wrestling. ThumbderDome. Language is dead, because the most intense thumb wrestling video game in history (that I’m aware of) killed it. Despite being extremely silly, ThumbderDome Wrestling is actually kinda unique from a control standpoint. It’s multiplayer, but two people split one controller, each with—wait for it—a thumbstick of their own. So…

Stormtrooper Walking Across Australia (Not Yet Killed By Spiders)

Scott Loxley, a member of the 501st Legion, is walking around Australia. It’s a big country, I should know, but I also know that he’s walking around the parts full of animals that kill humans for sport. In 18 months, Loxley has walked 5700 miles, which is just over halfway. In keeping with the Australian…

Valve Honors Aussies With In-Game Cameo

Gamers 4 Croydon were a political party that helped Australians turn the tide against archaic ratings laws. In appreciation for their efforts, Valve will be honouring them with a little shout-out in Left 4 Dead 2. The zombie shooter was one of the more high profile victims of Australia’s old ratings system, and had to…

Stats Suggest Most League Of Legends Players Actually Aren’t Jerks

League of Legends‘ community doesn’t exactly have the best reputation for sportsmanlike conduct or grace in defeat. It’s a rough neighborhood, folks say in hushed, fearful tones while chattering in Internet speakeasies, especially for newcomers. Riot, however, would like to refute that claim. With numbers As part of an announcement that LoL will soon be…

Guess Who’s Not Playing Warlords Of Draenor Tonight

In an effort to stem issues caused by tons of people trying to get to the expansion content at once, Blizzard haslowered the server live population caps. For someone on one of the most populous servers in the game, that pretty much means no.

Nintendo’s Best Ad In Years Is Also One Of Their Cheapest

Forget thecornball romance and creepy action figure fixations and excruciating store clerks. Seems someone, somewhere at Nintendo remembers how to make a good video game trailer. The answer was staring them right in the face, this whole time. Just make it using another Nintendo video game! In this case, Tomodachi Life. Never have I wanted…

10 Advanced Techniques That’ll Make You A Bettter Smash Bros. Player

The Wii U version of Smash Bros. drops next week—and in the meantime, you can start brushing up on some of your skills on the 3DS version, or at the very least start learning how to up your game. Some of these pointers, which are showcased in the following video by Zangoosinite, are things we…

There’s Actually A Point To Halo‘s Dumbest Achievement

Halo: The Master Chief Collection has a so-called “mystery” achievement, whose description is simply “inscrutable, mysterious.” The way to unlock it might seem totally arbitrary (and kinda lame), but it actually ties into a story from Halo‘s distant past. As seen in videos like this one from OneTickShaka, unlocking the achievement is as simple as…

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The Master Chief Collection‘s Multiplayer May Be Getting Better Soon

Been frustrated with the multiplayer matchmaking in Halo: The Master Chief Collection? Microsoft knows it’s a problem and is working to fix it. A big part of the appeal of the Master Chief Collection was getting to experience re-mastered versions of Lockout, Blood Gulch and other classic maps from older Halo games. But finding and…

Realistic Cosplay Of Futurama’s Farnsworth Is Effin’ Terrifying

*coughs, sips water* Good news, everyone! The good folks over at Tested (who you may remember from their Zoidberg cosplay) created a hyper-realistic mask of Professor Hubert J. Farnsworth from Futurama, with all his ghastly proportions intact. The video above shows the exact process they went through to achieve such a phenomenal recreation. The end…

Hey, it’s a familiar and awesome voice in the latest trailer for Tales of the Borderlands! Patrick Warburton—the dude best beloved for playing the live-action version of the Tick and voicing Brock Samson—will be part of the acting crew in Telltale-developed game spinning out of Gearbox’ RPG shooter series.

Someone Finished Skyrim’s Story In Under 40 Minutes, A New Record

If I were to take a guess, I’d say most players probably never make it through more than half of Skyrim’s story, if that—finishing it at all is a feat, nevermind finishing it fast. Speedrunner DrTChops recently nailed the new world record for beating Skyrim’s story, with a playthrough clocking in at 39:32. The “any…

I Wish Battlefield Hardline Let Me Be a Cop ALL The Time

My favourite part of the single player stuff in the preview build I recently played of next year’s Battlefield Hardline’s was being a policeman. My least favourite, the Battlefield bit. This post originally appeared on Kotaku UK You see, the early police procedural moments here are a glorious change of pace—full of arrests and tiny…

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