This Location From Call of Duty And STALKER Is Chilling In Real Life

Chernobyl, the infamous Ukrainian site of a horrific nuclear disaster in the ’80s, has appeared in FPSes like Call of Duty: Modern Warfare and STALKER to powerful effect, but what happens when a gamer steps into the real life Zone? Things get downright chilling. And irradiated. Nick Rush-Cooper wrote about the experience of being there…

13 Things You Might Not Know About The Game Boy

Ah, the Game Boy. A classic handheld system that’s been around for 25 years—meaning, it has a rich and fascinating history. Let’s take a look back, shall we? DYKGaming/Normal Boots walks us through a ton of cool Game Boy trivia in this video, including: How the Game Boy was the first video game console to…

Say Goodbye To Online Services On Your Wii And DS Games

Hope you’ve already gotten all your Dragon Quest IX treasure maps and downloaded all those daily Professor Layton puzzles. If not, now’s your last chance. At some point in the next 24 hours, Nintendo is turning off online functionality for Wii and DS games including Super Smash Bros., Mario Kart, and Pokémon. You’ll no longer…

The Epic Rap Battle Between Superman And Goku Is Too Close To Call

The Epic Rap Battles generally present me with a simple choice — Mozart Vs. Skrillex, Bob Ross Vs. Pablo Picasso —but when the Man of Steel goes up against Dragon Ball‘s Kakarrot, I just don’t know. Goku’s rapping skills are clearly more advanced than Superman’s, and he does go Super Saiyan all over the underwearing…

Remember The Universim, that gorgeous-looking god game I wrote about late in April? If its early development is any indication, it looks like everything I want out of a good god game. But before my prayers can be answered, it has to finish that whole crowdfunding campaign thing successfully. So if you’re also interested in…

Master Chief Looks So Much Cuter In Minecraft

Further confirming the adage that if something exists, it will eventually be in Minecraft, here’s a newly-announced Halo skin pack. It’ll include a bunch of character skins and music tracks from Microsoft’s sci-fi shooter series. More details to come

Yes, The Blue Team Has An Advantage In League of Legends

Red versus Blue. Shirts versus skins. Zombies versus humans. These are all surface level distinctions, saying nothing meaningful about one team’s likelihood of trouncing the other…right? If only there was some way to quantify the results of many different matches of a particular game and then use this information to come to a conclusion. Big…

You Can Watch Sailor Moon Again Starting Today

Starting today, uncut and remastered episodes of Sailor Moon will be released weekly on Hulu. Already, they have four subtitled episodes up—and more will be released every Monday. You can watch the first two episodes here if you’d like. I already started, and they look great. Lesson learned: fuck jewelry. Also: sleeping instead of doing…

Watch Dogs, Sony Gold Wireless Headset, Pandemic, Reaper of Souls

Watch Dogs is finally coming out on the 27th. Don’t miss your chance to save by pre-ordering, not to mention the bonuses. Watch Dogs pre-order with $15 Xbox Gift Card | One/360 Watch Dogs pre-order with $12 credit | PC Watch Dogs Deluxe pre-order with $14 credit | PC The Sony Gold Wireless Headset is…

Super Monkey Ball Gets In On Some Of That Hot Peggle Action

Everybody loves Popcap’s Peggle. Everybody loves monkeys. Sega does the math and gets Super Monkey Ball Bounce, or as I’m going to call it — Seggle. Coming this summer to iOS and Android, Seggle takes its inspiration from the classic arcade game of pachinko, and not Peggle at all. See? Bananas. Peggle doesn’t have bananas.…

Go To Google.Com Now To Play With a Rubik’s Cube

The Rubik’s cube was first invented by Hungarian architect Ernő Rubik in 1974. Google is commemorating this achievement with one of its trademark Doodles that lets you play with the legendary toy in the comfort of your own web browser. Head over to Google.com to give it a whirl. But be warned: as the New…

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