Miyamoto Ponders Nintendo Making Games That Run On Handheld And Console

Could you imagine Nintendo making games that play on both their console and their handheld? Nintendo’s top game designer, Shigeru Miyamoto, can. He told me he sees that as a challenge but also an “area of opportunity.” We talked about this kind of thing during the tail end of our very fruitful conversation at E3…

Watch People Play Far Cry 4 Live, Right Here

A couple of lucky streamers have the chance to play Far Cry 4 before the game is actually out. Hopefully this doesn’t make you feel too jealous, because we all have a chance to watch them play it live on Twitch. What sorts of hijinks will they get into? I’m hoping it involves elephants and…

I Hate The PlayStation iOS App

More than week ago, I got codes for the PlayStation Now beta and the Destiny Alpha. So, I opened up the PlayStation app on my iPhone to redeem them, only to be quickly reminded how bad the app is. It may sound weird but code redemption is the main reason I installed the PlayStation iOS…

Meet Dragon Ball’s Mysterious New Character

Dragon Ball Z fans won’t just get to play as iconic characters in the upcoming Dragon Ball Xenoverse game—they’ll also get to play as a new character introduced by Bandai Namco. In fact, you’re looking at him right now. While Bandai isn’t releasing too many details about the new character, they do say he might…

​UFC Glitch Breaks Gravity Instead of Bones

This is why they call it ultimate fighting, right? Spotted on YouTube, this glitch in EA’s latest MMA title is hilarious in how it surprises you. Guy on the ground looks out of it and like no threat at all, right? Then, all of a sudden, he springs upwards in very broken fashion. His poor…

Destiny’s Robots Have Some Moves

Fact: The Exos of Destiny know how to groove better than any sentient creature in the galaxy, and they’ll cut a rug against anyone who says otherwise. Watch as the bots of Destiny jack their funk matrix into the groovisphere and deliver 20 ccs of syncopated moon wizard magic. Aw yeahhhh. It’s enough to make…

Ten Moves You Should Never Teach Your Pokémon

Every Pokémon only has four move slots—and those slots are precious. You shouldn’t waste your slots with useless moves. Especially not these moves. TheJWittz teams up with competitive battler Shofu here to give you a top ten list of awful moves you should avoid at all costs. While you’ll have to watch the video to…

Steam Summer Sale Day 5, Buy 2 Wii U Games and Get 2 Free, FTL

With the long-awaited release of Mario Kart 8, it’s a great time to get a Wii U. Luckily, Target is running a nice promotion to flesh out your library. Just buy two select games, and you’ll get a third free. Plus, Nintendo is still running a promotion to get a free game when you buy…

How To Share Miis In Tomodachi Life

Making Miis and watching them grow is the best part of Tomodachi Life. So why not share some of that joy with the rest of the world? What’s that you say…because doing so is unnecessarily confusing? Well, I’m here to help you out. Like some other recent Nintendo games, the newly minted 3DS sim game…

​That Is Some Gorgeous Video Game Sand

Look close and you might be able to guess what game some of the creators of Vane used to work on. Hint: it’s one a lot of people have been waiting on for a long time. If you guessed that Vane shares some artistic talent with near-mythical PlayStation game The Last Guardian, then you’re right…

The New Online LEGO Game Is Diablo For Kids

Meet Bumblebee Girl. Isn’t she adorable, with her little wings and pot of honey and ability to completely obliterate skeletons, pirates and trolls with her area-of-effect attacks? It may look cute, but LEGO Minifigures Online is a challenging Diablo-style game. Combining the joy of collecting little LEGO people with the endless-clicking of an isometric action…

Be Careful: Major Witcher 3 Spoilers Have Leaked

A major Witcher 3 leak has left spoilers all over the web, and the leaked material “may heavily impact and spoil your future gaming experience,” according to the RPG’s developer, CD Projekt Red. The files, as Eurogamer reports, originate from the hacked Google Drive of a CD Projekt Red employee, and are currently making rounds…

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