Man Turns Basement Into Fallout Vault For Birthday Party

VaultOfTheSixturned 30 last month, and to celebrate he turned his entire basement into one of the Vaults from the Fallout series. Yes, there was cosplay, and yes, there was cake. The rolling door to greet guests is a nice touch, but it’s the TUNNEL SNAKES RULE graffiti that’s just the best. Guests even got to…

​Halo Is Getting Remade On PC, And It (Still) Looks Pretty

Yeah, there’s a HD remake of Halo on the Xbox, but let’s not forget, Bungie’s classic shooter was also released on the PC. So fans have stepped in to do what Microsoft won’t, and update the game with more contemporary visuals. We first wrote about this mod/overhaul over a yearago (which is transferring the game…

Years After Release, Here’s One Of Skyrim‘s Most Impressive Mods Yet

Enderal is a total conversion Skyrim mod that adds an entire new world to the game. Yes, its name sounds like something you’d take to cure a headache that is also the apocalypse, but this one’s dark, dank-with-atmosphere caverns and “mature” leanings make it the Skyrim mod to watch. Luke wrote about Enderal a while…

Steam Auctions Let You Destroy Useless Crap, Maaaybe Win Stuff

Keenly aware that people’s Steam accounts are filling up with garbage – like cards and emoticons – Valve is giving people a chance to pulp them and turn them into what are essentially Steam Bucks. And then use them to bid on real games. It’s called the Steam Holiday Auction, and works like this: This…

Xbox One Finally Outsells The PS4 (In America)

The PS4’s reign as the best-selling next-gen console is over. At least for one month. Having ditched Kinect, cut the priceand aggressively bundled its console in the lead-up to the holiday season, Microsoft has announced that during November the Xbox One finally outsold the PS4 in the US. By how much we don’t know, but…

Doom Is Now Old Enough To Drink

This week, classic PC shooter Doom turned 21. So if you see someone in green slide up next to you at a bar and scream RIP AND TEAR, buy the guy a drink. To celebrate, John Romero, one of the key figures involved in the creation of the game, shared a ton of artwork from…

​Destiny‘s Vault of Glass Needs A Patch ASAP

Destiny’s first expansion, The Dark Below, raises the game’s level cap and introduces a whole new tier of more powerful armor and weapons. It also introduces a difficult new six-player raid. Problem is, those new additions have undermined the best thing the game had going up to now:The original Vault of Glass raid. For the…

Smash Bros. Basics That Everyone Should Know

Smash Bros. might be known for its random chaos, but that doesn’t mean you can’t own the stage with sheer skill. But to do that, you’re going to have to know what you’re doing. While we’ve shown you some advanced techniques before, here are some more basic ones, as shown by Super Smash Academy. Even…

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Even Smash Bros. Pros Accidentally Self-Destruct In Matches

One of the most hilariously clumsy things you can do in Super Smash Bros. is walk off the stage by accident. Or jump off. Or “Flare Blitz” off if you’re Charizard. We’ve all been there. But it’s particularly embarrassing when you trip and fall in the most Smash Bros. way possible during a tournament match.…

Are you playing Suikoden or Suikoden II for the first time this week? What do you think? Post all thoughts, discussion topics, and opinions below—I want to hear from newcomers in particular.

It’s Going to Be Real Hard to Do a New Teen Titans TV Show

Mostly because the best Teen Titans show—yep, Young Justice—has already been made. And then canceled. Earlier this week, word trickled out from chief creative officer Geoff Johns that shooting would begin next year for Titans, a TNT TV show based on DC Comics’ long-running Teen Titans series. Johns—himself a one-time writer of an incarnation of…

1960s Batman, SimCity 2000 Still Free, Vita Discounts, and More Deals

Some days you just can’t get rid of a bomb, but you can get Batman The Complete Series Limited Edition Blu-ray for just $154 today. [Batman Complete Series] Here’s how much better it looks on Blu-ray, and some recommendations for must-watch episodes. It’s also part of io9’s Blu-ray Gift Set Guide Yet another Xbox One…

How To Bread Simulator Like Rocky

I am Bread, the latest game from the people who brought us Surgeon Simulator, is a great game on its own, even in its young stages of Early Access. But it is missing one crucial thing: 1980s sports montage music. If the title hasn’t given it away, the premise of I am Bread is straightforward…