Here’s Another Wonderful Map to Play Minecraft on

So, how about36 more square kilometers of hand-crafted fun? Yes, this is another map from Darastlix, the creator of Meiva, but the landscape we’re dealing with here is more natural than magical. This is because one of Darastlix’s inspirations for the map was a real-life location, namely the delta of the Siberian river Lena. The…

Pinball Game Made Out Of All The Internet Memes

Liberty Games, a British pinball company, has made Internet Meme Pinball (a real machine, mind you, not an online game). It is everything you are probably imagining. They took an old existing game and modified it, replacing most of the casing and art with meme fodder like “not sure if”, grumpy cat and “winter is…

(you can buy them here)

The Week In Games: Now Sony’s Just Showing Off

Here I am, trying to blip the Week in Games because nothing’s coming out this week except for a couple of Wii U eShop games, and Sony rolls up and drops six titles on Tuesday. Typical. They’re all downloadable titles, mind you, and several are just ports from one platform to the other. The point…

Humanoid Raccoons, Supermutant Invasions And Other Cut Fallout Content

I would have loved the original Fallout so much more had the planned mutant raccoon faction made it into the game. VG Facts’ “Leftovers” series looks at the S’lanter faction, extra maps, the planned Supermutant invasion and other bits left out of the post-apocalyptic classic. Fallout spent three years in development as a game based…

The PlayStation Vita Makes A Lovely Little VR Headset

Ukrainian developerBeatshapershas access to Sony’s Project Morpheus PlayStation 4 VR headset and various incarnations of the Oculus Rift, but those weren’t enough to sate their virtual reality madness, so they strapped a PlayStation Vita to their heads. Speaking to the lovely folks over at Push Square, Beatshapers founder Alexey Menshikov explains how the PlayStation Vita…

The Majora’s Mask Version Of The “12 Days Of Xmas” Ends As Expected

Those of you familiar with The Legend of Zelda: Majora’s Mask will immediately see the problem with Really Freakin’ Clever‘s “Twelve Days At Snowhead.” At least they saved a lot of money on gifts, and those that did purchase them will never have to worry about paying their credit card bills. Look on the bright…

John Malkovich, Rose McGowan And Bill Paxton Star In Call Of Duty DLC

Sorry Jon Bernthal of The Walking Dead, your name didn’t fit in the headline, but you’ll surely be there beside Cyrus “The Virus” Grissom, Chet and Paige Matthews battling a new breed of undead in Advanced Warfare‘s Exo-Zombies downloadable content. How does Activision keep getting these big stars to do dirty work in what are…

How A First-Year eSports Championship Got A $2 Million Prize Pool

Early next month the top eight Smite teams in the world will converge on Atlanta to battle it out over a massive $2 million prize pool. How did a first-year MOBA get a pot so big? The same way DOTA 2 did it — crowdfunding. As Valve used the DOTA 2 Compendium to raise this…