Hey, New York City! The Come Out And Play festival is this weekend. Lots of physical games to run around and play through Sunday, including PacManhattan tonight and Full Contact Catan tomorrow. Details here

It Must Be Hard To Write Game of Thrones

When you write for a living, procrastination is a constant source of temptation. I bet A Game of Thrones writer George R.R. Martin gets distracted now and then. The folks at Mint Comedy envisioned what must go through George R.R. Martin’s head when he’s trying to get work done. They even nailed the laugh, too.…

Here’s A Game About A Helicopter Attacking A Skeleton Realm

If you’re like me, you like weird stuff on the internet. Boy are you in for a treat then. Someone adapted one of my favoirte werid internet videos into a game. Peaceful Skeleton Realm: ABH is an adaptation of the classic peaceful skeleton realm attacked by helicopter by coolnue. Play it. Love it. Shoot some…

The Scott Pilgrim Creator’s Long-Awaited Follow-Up Is Great

There’s not that much about video games or comic books in Seconds, the new graphic novel from the creator of the much-loved Scott Pilgrim series. And it’s one of the best things about Bryan Lee O’Malley’s ambitious new creation. The dearth of geek-centric signifiers in O’Malley’s latest work comes as a bit of a surprise.…

What Over A Decade of Progress In Pokémon Looks Like

Pokémon Ruby and Sapphire were released back in November 2003 on the Game Boy Advance. The remakes, Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire, are bringing that world back to life this year on the 3DS—and when compared to the originals, we can see just how much better the modern games look. Here’s a fantastic image by…

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​Why Board Games Are Beautiful

The best thing about board games, hands down, is the people. I don’t just mean the sorts of people who play board games, I mean that more broadly: Playing a tabletop or board game means spending time with your friends, your family, your loved ones. Board games are about people. This video, from Shut Up…

9 Games About Ghosts You Can Play For Free

Ghosts! They’re cute and spooky and a little bit dead. And now here are a bunch of free games you can play about them. The group Devchat had a game jam recently and the theme was g-g-g-g-ghosts. More specifically “ghost wheel?”. The games were all made in a 48-hours span. Carnighoul Take Space Invaders, and…

Big-Time Doom Fans React To Yesterday’s Doom Reveal

We didn’t see the new Doom that was shown exclusively to Quakecon attendees in Dallas this week. You probably didn’t either. But all the people in a video shot by the folks at the unofficial Quakecon Forums did. They just saw it minutes before this video was recorded, and they were pumped. Skip to 50…

You’ll finally be able to buy games and add-ons for your Xbox when you’re away from the console. Mobile purchasing via SmartGlass or Xbox.com is one of the features coming to the Xbox ecosystem in a future update, which will roll out next week in early-access form to select XB1 owners.

Watch Dota 2’s Biggest Tournament of the Year, Right Here

The main event for The International starts today, with ViCi Gaming facing NewBee in the first upper bracket match, followed by Evil Geniuses versus Team DK. You can watch it all go down here. The International, as you might recall, is a tournament with humongous prize pool. $10,850,749, to be exact. It’s kind of incredible,…

Highlight Reel: Any Landing You Can Walk (Or Swim) Away From

Today’s gaming highlights: Casually landing a plane on a boat in a warzone, jumping over buildings like Superman, an incredible sniper shot, and more! War Thunder Reptile almost gets shot down, and has nowhere to go… until he spots a landing boat on its way to shore. Titanfall Thomas Hall is playing a round of…

Deals: Civilization: Beyond Earth, Goat Simulator, 1960s Batman, Dune

The only thing better than digitally tripping people with goats is tripping real people with real goats, but at least you can do the former for under $6 today. [Goat Simulator] Ready to go to space? Preorder your flight for 20% off with code P36EYA-K5JYKT-ABO7X9 today. [Civilization: Beyond Earth] Some days you just can’t get…

Nintendo, Your Cat Mario Show Is Weird

Yesterday Nintendo premiered the Cat Mario Show on the eShop in Europe. It’s an edutainment show aimed at kids who want to learn facts about Nintendo properties. It’s also mildly terrifying for reasons I can’t quite explain. Here are some things I learned from The Cat Mario Show 1. Cat Mario and Cat Peach are…

Paintball Can Be Badass With A Counter-Strike Sniper Rifle

The Asiimov skin for the AWP sniper rifle in Counter-Strike: Global Offensive can be a pricey one, $30 or a lot more if you’re not lucky. So buying one might not be the best idea. But modifying a generic paintball marker to match the one in CS:GO? That’s much better. Gaboer did just that and…

How BioWare Plans Who You Can Romance In Their Games

Creating romances in a BioWare game isn’t just a matter of writing and art. It’s also a matter of math. That’s one of several insights in a really good 48-minute talk delivered by the writers of Dragon Age Inquisition at last week’s GaymerX2 convention. The topic was romance (read: who your character can eventually have…