The brothers who hacked Mario Kart 8 are back with another video that gives many a new perspective on the game’s racetracks. It it just me, or does Grumble Volcano start to look a lot like Mount Doom up close? This latest video is actually a rehashing of one of their very first hacks, when…

The OFFICIAL Number of Times Kenny’s Died in South Park In its early years, fans knew South Park as the show that repeatedly killed off one of its main characters, Kenny. It was such a common and prevalent trope that the phrase “Oh my God, they killed Kenny!” became synonymous with the show. Fans have…

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”…