You’ve Got To Really Love The Evil Within To Spend $300 On This Guy

I can understand a Skyrim statue, and those Doom plushies were about the cutest thing ever, but the latest fruit of Bethesda’s partnership with collectible maker Gaming Heads is a $300 statue of a man with a barbwire-wrapped safe spouting tentacles for a head. That’s not okay. Now I have not played The Evil Within…

It Takes Almost An Hour To Fly Over 10,000 Holes in Desert Golfing

It was bound to happen eventually. Someone mapped out Desert Golfing, removing all the holes and stitching it into one long video. They did 10,000 holes, which is more than I needed to know existed. Warning, spoilers for Desert Golfing in the video! Patrick Winchell, an iOS game developer, wrote some custom code to find…

It might not be an FPS, but 343 Industries just announced it’s got something Halo-related in the works. IGN reports the studio is planning to release a new twin-stick shooter called Halo: Spartan Strike in December. It’s a follow up to last year’s Spartan Assault, and is only confirmed for Steam and Windows platforms. via…

This Stop-Motion Construx Short Is So Good

Lego has survived many battles in the great toy wars over the years, which probably helps explain why The Lego Movie finally came into existence earlier this year. If nothing else, this glorious short film by Adam Brown reminds us there are other types of plastic building toys out there with their own stories to…

New Xbox One Bundle, PSN Ultimate Editions, and More Deals

The latest Xbox One Bundle option packs in Assassin’s Creed Unity, Assassin’s Creed IV: Black Flag, Dance Central Spotlight and Xbox One with Kinect for $500. [Xbox One Kinect AC Bundle] Don’t want Kinect? There’s a version without for $400. [ Xbox One AC Bundle] Get your favorite gaming mouse and your favorite gaming keyboard…

The Next Justice League Movies Will Come Out In 2017

If you’ve been wondering about the exact timeline for when Warner Bros would be expanding their cinematic universe based off DC Comics, then wonder no longer. Movies based off of Suicide Squad, Justice League and Wonder Woman are coming in the next five years. At a Warner Bros. investor event today, where Wall Street Journal…

The Best Thing About The New Vita Themes Is The Menu Music

For more than two and a half years we’ve been dealing with the same PlayStation Vita menu music. The last thing I wanted from the PlayStation TV was that same damn piece playing on my television set. Thanks to the recently-released Vita themes, I don’t have to hear it anymore. It seems like such a…

Remember The Flame in the Flood, that neat Kickstarter project by some ex-BioShock developers that looks like an arty version ofOregon Trail? Well, it met its $150,000 fundraising goal in a week. Now, as always, we just have to play the waiting game… via IGN

GTA V Jet Pilots Are The Best Jet Pilots

I know that the awesomeness of Grand Theft Auto V’s skilled daredevils is well established at this point. But when you see stunts this impressive, it certainly bears repeating: YouTuber Mario4LYF3, who’s been defying GTA V’s laws of nature for a while now, is pulling off a lot of the same high level stunts that…

Poor Man Endlessly Assaulted By Street Fighter Quotes

An innocent man’s work life is wracked with terror, thanks to his coworker’s fiendish use of startling Street Fighter quotes. I’m so glad I work from home. Not because I think any of my coworkers would do something like this to me — they don’t have the stones. No, it would be me on the…

Thousands Rally Online Against Gamergate

It’s been six weeks since the Gamergate campaign first started. Now, for the first time, thousands of people are uniting under a single banner to call for it to stop. Since last night, the #StopGamerGate2014 hashtag has been trending in the United States on Twitter, accumulating thousands of tweets and attracting attention from high-profile game…

Sims Sure Love Selfies

For whatever reason, seeing this post by Dubzophrenia on The Sims subreddit made me realize something: all of my Sims are constantly taking selfies. They’re cute most of the time, but a lot like real selfies, they can get…pretty darn annoying at other times. Does this happen to you too?

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The Honest Dark Souls Trailer Is Not Just About The Difficulty

We all know by now that the Souls games can be hard and painful and luckily Smosh Games’ latest Honest Trailer is not just a clip about that. It rather makes fun of neglected topics such as the community, the art direction… and the games’ connection to Cat Mario. The title says Dark Souls, but…

Angry Birds Transformers Is Out Today. Fans Should Grab It.

And by “you” I mean old-school Transformers fans, for while the game is a bit of a free-to-play time-sink, it’s got the touch and power of a project put together by 1980s-era fans. Rovio’s birds and pigs are disguised as robots in disguise, but this isn’t a game about Autobirds Vs. Deceptihogs, nor is it…

If Dreamworks Made A Zelda Animation

I can totally imagine this scene: a seagull—voiced by Morgan Freeman—gives life-changing advices to a computer-animated Link from Wind Waker or from any of the Zelda games. Illustrator Cassio Yoshiyaki drew something similar to this idea with Link and Zelda from The Wind Waker, and both of them look realy great Toon Link by Cassio…