The Sopranos Hits Blu-ray, Ken Burns Docs, Cowboy Bebop [Deals]

The Sopranos is finally coming to Blu-ray in its entirety. Preorder to save at least $45 off MSRP. [The Sopranos] Amazon has a great selection of Ken Burns’ incredible documentaries discounted this week. We’re not even going to attempt to recommend just one. [Ken Burns] It’s back. All your training has been leading up to…

A Game That’s Everything I Wanted Virtual Reality To Be In The ’80s

It’s nice to see companies investing tons of money on extravagant virtual reality hardware, but all I really need is a pair of wire-frame hands and a vector track to wave them on. Fotonica gives me just that. Born from a browser-based game from way back in the days when no one knew what the…

Downton Abbey, Made In The Sims 4

Continuing the tradition of giving popular TV shows the Sims 4 treatment, one talented player has recreated the iconic setting and main cast of Downton Abbey. Impressively, this was done using the game’s modern set-pieces. I mean, sure: they’re not perfect. The Sims version of the Downton Abbey estate… …doesn’t exactly measure up to the…

An Inkjet Printer? Of Course, It Runs Doom.

Another device, Canon’s Pixma printer, has joined the endless list of things that can run Doom. We might still have to wait for the “police radar gun” but security researcher Michael Jordon‘s mod is just as good. The mod, which took months to create, was made to demonstrate certain security issues. You can read about…

​Somehow, Somebody Transformed Trials Fusion into Donkey Kong

How? How this is possible? Last time I saw anything retro-centric in the latest version of Ubisoft’s super-tough motocross game, it was an homage to old-school games of yore. That was cool. But this—an incredibly accurate remake of the first Donkey Kong—is insane. It’s the work of track creator PATI-I, who nails the look of…

Well-played, Google.

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“We are also incredibly excited to be bringing GTAV to the PC, but the game requires a little more development time in order to ensure that it is as amazing and polished as possible.” Rockstar Games on why the PC version of Grand Theft Auto V isn’t arriving until January 27

Diablo III’s Endgame Dungeons Can Be Disappointingly Empty

Greater Rifts in Diablo III are unforgiving sometimes—not because they’re hard, but because you have 15 minutes to kill a huge amount of monsters, even if the dungeon doesn’t actually have that many of them. YouTuber avtorouc entered one of these dungeons where the monster density was, well, quite low. He was lucky it wasn’t…

Nintendo Is Sorry for Accidentally Banning Smash Bros. Players

Over the weekend, some Smash Bros. 3DS players complained of being banned temporarily from online play. They weren’t sure why. In an official release, Nintendo announced today that there was a “lethal move” spawned by Peach using her “pulling turnips” move right at the start of online play. The problem is that in “For Glory”…

Team Acer’s MMA was the winner of this weekend’s Starcraft II tournament at DreamHack Moscow and while it’s a great achievement, there’s something strange about his trophy… Congrats on your victory MMA and don’t worry about the typo. Misprints always worth more! via MMA’s Twitter To contact the author of this post, write to: [email protected]

Console Multiplayer is Changing

Playing together is deeply embedded in video game culture. Long before Xbox Live, before the days of Unreal Tournament and Quake, arcades were filled with friends jostling to get further, score higher and win bigger. This post originally appeared on Kotaku UK Even those playing solo did so with the high score of a stranger…

Princess Peach’s Underwear Is Protected from Your Gaze

Smash Bros. fans might recall that, for whatever reason, Super Smash Bros. Brawl offered a detailed look at Princess Peach’s underpants. That doesn’t appear true for the newly released 3DS game. Note: This article has content some readers might find objectionable. As numerous gamers in Japan have pointed out on Japanese forum 2ch, it doesn’t…